Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics Group

The Atmospheric and Ocean Optics group, in the Physics Department at the Univ. of Miami, conducts research in both theoretical and experimental environmental optics. The group is headed by Dr. Howard Gordon and Dr. Kenneth Voss.

Quick List of Research Interests

• Atmospheric and Ocean Radiative Transfer
• Atmospheric Aerosol Optical Properties
• Atmospheric Correction and Ocean Color
• Inelastic Ocean Light Scattering
• Atmospheric and Ocean Radiation Distributions
• Polarization of Atmospheric and Ocean Radiation
• Sunphotometry and Lidar
• Sun Aureole Measurements
• Sea Surface Reflectance and Whitecaps
• Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Function

Cooperative research is conducted with the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) at Goddard Space Flight Center, the RSMAS Remote Sensing Group and the RSMAS Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry Division both at the University of Miami Marine and Atmospheric Sciences campus located in Key Biscayne, the Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment (AEROCE), and NOAA.

Atmospheric and Ocean Optics Research Group

• Dr. Howard Gordon, Professor of Physics
• Dr. Kenneth Voss, Professor of Physics
• Dr. G. Chris Boynton, Research Faculty
• Luke Logan, Research Assoc.: instrument design, manufacture, deployment
• Dr. Art Gleason, Assistant Scientist
• Nordine Souaidia , Graduate Student, Research Assistant
• Purushottam Bhandari, Graduate Student

Link to current preprints (papers submitted/in press).