Raymond Hoff
Professor

Departmental Affiliation:

Physics

JCET Research Group:

UMBC-based Faculty

GSFC Code:

610.6

Mailing Address:

Physics Department Rm 426
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250 USA

Phone:

(410) 455-1610

Fax:

(410) 455-1291

Email:

hoff@umbc.edu

URL:

http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/

Most Recent Publication

Jordan, N. S., C. Ichoku and R. M. Hoff, 2008. Estimating smoke emissions over the US Southern Great Plains using MODIS fire radiative power and aerosol observations. Atmos. Environ., 42, 2007-2022, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.023.

Research Interests:

Optical properties of aerosols and gases in the atmosphere, active remote sensing using lidar, passive remote sensing from space, air quality studies in urban/suburban regions

Biography:

Dr. R. M. Hoff is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is also Director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. Dr. Hoff has 33 years of experience in atmospheric research. His research interests are in the optical properties of aerosols and gases in the atmosphere. Dr. Hoff has been central in formulating major research programs on Differential Absorption, airborne and spaceborne lidar, volcanic emissions, atmospheric transport of toxic chemicals to the Great Lakes, atmospheric visibility, Arctic Haze, and dispersion of pollutants. He has led or participated in over 20 major field experiments. He is the author of 83 journal articles and book chapters, 94 other refereed works and numerous public presentations of his work. Dr. Hoff obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics at the University of California Berkeley in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Simon Fraser University in 1975. He has conducted research at UMBC, Environment Canada, NASA Langley Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Research Laboratories. Dr. Hoff was a member of the Science Advisory Group for the NASA Laser In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE), a space shuttle experiment. He was a member of a proponent team for a spaceborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) involving NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the Meteorological Service of Canada. He is also a science team member on the ESSP-2 spaceborne lidar, named CALIPSO. He was a member of the International Radiation Commission International Coordination Group on Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS), the American Meteorological Society Committee for Laser Atmospheric Studies (CLAS) and the Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric Aerosol focus of the International Global Aerosol Program (SUTA/IGAP/IGAC). He was Rapporteur for Long Range Transport on the WMO Executive Committee Panel of Experts/Commission of the Atmospheric Science Working Group on Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry. Dr. Hoff is a member of the Science Advisory Group on Aerosols to the Commission of the Atmospheric Sciences of the World Meteorological Organization, and he is Chair of the NASA Applied Sciences Advisory Panel. He has had committee and peer review roles at NASA, EPA, Environment Canada, and the European Economic Community. He has held memberships in six scientific societies and served as Chairman of committees for those societies.