Lahouari Bounoua

Dr. Lahouari Bounoua is a senior principal investigator with multidisciplinary expertise in remote sensing and atmospheric, climatic, and biospheric sciences modeling at NASA—Goddard Space Flight Center Biospheric Sciences Laboratory. He received his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the Florida State University in 1992. He joined NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Biospheric Sciences Branch in 1993 as a junior member of one of the finest and largest (1991–2000) Earth Observing Science (EOS) Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) groups. He served as a Research Faculty Associate Professor at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland College Park from 1996 to 2005. He won the University Space Research Association Excellence in Research in 1996, and the Goddard Hydrosphere-Biosphere-Geosphere Peer Award for Outstanding Education and Outreach in 2009. He also received a 2019 Pecora Team Award in recognition for his significant contribution to the Terra satellite mission. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the European Geosciences Union. His research focuses on applications of space observations to model the biosphere-atmosphere interactions and assess their implications on the Earth’s biosphere and life on Earth in a changing climate.