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Cynthia O'Carroll					March 6, 2003
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/614-5563)
Cynthia.m.ocarroll{at}nasa.gov

RELEASE:  03-22

NASA SCIENTIST ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

Dr. Michael King, Senior Project Scientist for NASA's Earth Observing
System (EOS), Greenbelt, Md., has been elected to the National Academy 
of Engineering (NAE), for advancing our understanding of the effects 
of aerosols and clouds on Earth's radiation and for leading programs 
to improve climate prediction.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest
professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Academy membership
honors those who have made "important contributions to engineering
theory and practice, including significant contributions to the
literature of engineering theory and practice," and those who have
demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and
developing fields of technology." The total U.S. membership is 2,138
and the number of foreign associates is 165.  King is one of only 16
active and retired NASA employees that are members of the National
Academy of Engineering.

Dr. King has been the Senior Project Scientist for the EOS since 1992. 
In this position, he has orchestrated the day-to-day interfacing of 
the Earth Science community with NASA's Earth Science Enterprise to 
ensure that both scientific and programmatic requirements for the 
program are met. He is honored for his leadership and his scientific 
contribution in the field of radiative transfer and its application to 
ground-based, airborne and satellite remote sensing techniques of 
clouds and aerosols.

He also serves as the Principal Investigator and Team Leader of the
Atmosphere Discipline Group of the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) science team and is a member of the science
team of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)
instrument. MODIS and CERES are both key instruments on the EOS Terra
and Aqua satellites.

Dr. King has also led and participated in many field projects
including the SAFARI-2000 field campaign in southern Africa. He also
excels in theoretical studies, in instrument development, in analysis
of satellite and aircraft data, and writing review papers.

His research experience includes conceiving, developing, and operating 
multispectral scanning radiometers from a number of aircraft platforms 
in field experiments ranging form arctic stratus clouds to smoke from 
the Kuwait oil fires and biomass burning in Brazil and southern 
Africa.  He has lectured on global change on all seven continents.

Dr. King is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and 
is a recipient of the Verner E. Suomi Award of the AMS for fundamental 
contributions to remote sensing and radiative transfer.  He received 
an honorary doctorate from Colorado College in 1995, and is a Goddard 
Senior Fellow and recipient of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, 
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and NASA Exceptional 
Service Medal. King also received the 2001 William Nordberg Memorial 
Award for his accomplishments in the field of Earth Sciences.

Dr. King is an Adjunct Professor of Meteorology at the University of
Maryland. He received a BA degree in physics from Colorado College in
1971 and the MS and PhD degrees in atmospheric sciences from the
University of Arizona in 1973 and 1977, respectively, and joined
Goddard Space Flight Center as a Physical Scientist in the Climate and 
Radiation Branch, Laboratory for Atmospheres, in January 1978.

Dr. King currently resides in Silver Spring, Md., with his wife,
Diana, a Systems Analyst for the Department of Health and Human
Services, in Washington, D.C. His son, Jason, is a financial advisor
for H & R Block Financial Advisors, Inc., in Richmond, Va.  His
daughter, Hailey, is a Production Manager for Knott Laboratory, Inc.
in Centennial, Colo.

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