JEFFREY HOLLINGSWORTH - SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

NASA Ames Research Center, Planetary Systems Branch, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone:  650-604-6275     Fax:  650-604-6779     Email:  jeffh@humbabe.arc.nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for carrying out full three-dimensional (3D) climate simulations using an array of complex climate modeling tools (e.g., the NASA Ames Mars GCM; the NCAR CCSM; and the KNMI/ECBILT) to assess habitable and extreme environments of extrasolar planets.

Related Experience Summary

• Dynamical Meteorology and Circulation of Planetary Atmospheres
• Member, Atmospheric Advisory Group (AAG) for aerobraking operations of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (September 1997–March 1998)
• PI: Large-Scale Extratropical Weather Systems in Mars' Atmosphere, NASA Mars Data Analysis Program
• Co-I: Simulations of the General Circulation and Climate of Mars (PI: R. M. Haberle, NASA Ames), NASA Planetary Atmospheres Program

Employment History

Research Scientist, SJSU Foundation/NASA Ames Research Center, July 1994–present
Guest Investigator/Lecturer, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 5–12 August 2000
NRC Research Associate, NASA Ames Research Center, July 1992–July 1994

Education

Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, June 1992
B.S. Meteorology (B.A. Physics, double major), San Jose State University, May 1984

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
European Geophysical Society
American Astronomical Society/Division for Planetary Sciences

Awards and Honors

• NASA Group Achievement Award, Mars Global Surveyor Solar Array Anomaly Recovery and Aerobraking Team, May 1999
• Resident Research Associateship, National Research Council, 1992–1994

Selected Relevant Publications

Barnes, J.R., and J.L. Hollingsworth, 1987: Dynamical modeling of a planetary wave mechanism for a Martian polar warming. Icarus, 71, 313–334;

Hollingsworth, J.L., and J.R. Barnes, 1996: Forced, stationary planetary waves in Mars' winter atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 428–448

Hollingsworth, J.L., R.M. Haberle, J.R. Barnes, A.F.C. Bridger, J.B. Pollack, H. Lee, and J. Schaeffer, 1996: Orographic control of storm zones on Mars. Nature, 380, 413–416

James, P.B., J.L. Hollingsworth, M.J. Wolff, and S.W. Lee, 1999: North polar dust storms in early spring on Mars. Icarus, 138, 64–73

Hinson, D.P., G.L. Tyler, J.L. Hollingsworth, and R.J. Wilson, 2001: Radio occultation measurements of forced atmospheric waves on Mars. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 1463–148

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