Mary Morris

Dr. Morris is a member of the Microwave Instrument Science group. Her research interests lie at the intersection of microwave remote sensing and atmospheric science, with particular expertise in microwave radiometry and GNSS-R. She is currently a member of NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) science team, the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument science team, and is the instrument scientist for the Dynamic Microwave Radiometer (DMR) on the INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) mission.


Education: 

  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan

  • M.S., Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan

  • B.S., Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University


Research Interests: 

  • Geophysical Remote Sensing

  • Microwave Radiometry

  • GNSS-R

  • Weather

  • Climate

  • Hydrology


Professional Experience: 

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  • Technologist, Apr. 2018 – present

  • Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, Mar. 2017 – Mar. 2018


Selected Awards: 

  • NASA Group Achievement Award, COWVR/TEMPEST Instrument Team (2023)

  • Honorable Mention, Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research (2016)

  • NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Visiting Scientist Proposal selected (2016)

  • NASA Group Achievement Award, Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission to investigate the factors influencing hurricane intensity change (2012)


Selected Publications: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9580-6239

 

Dr. Mary Morris
Address: 
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818-354-4966
Email: 
mary.g.morris@jpl.nasa.gov