Dr. Violeta Sanjuan Calzado
Not Applicable
Office of Professional Programs
NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Dr. Sanjuan Calzado is a Senior Scientist working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the forthcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Experiment (PACE) satellite mission. She
graduated in 2009 with a PhD in Ocean Optics at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, supervised by Prof. Ian Robinson. In 2009, she began working at the NATO Underwater Research Center, NURC (now CMRE) as a Post Doctoral Scientist, and in 2014, she started working as a Research Scientist. From 2015-2019, she led the Ocean Optics Program at NATO developing and executing the scientific program, leading sea trials and advising the Scientific Committee at NATO.
Research interests
As lead for the development of NOMAD, the NASA bio-Optical Marine Algorithm dataset, my interests are primarily database structure for optical and biogeochemical products, uncertainty estimates, in situ radiometry, processing methodologies, software development for radiometric processing and community protocols. Other interests include optical sensors on autonomous vehicles, platform development, calibration platforms and bio-optical modeling.
Education
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Ph D, Ocean Optics and Bio-optical Modelling
— University of Southampton, U.K./National Oceanography Centre (2009) Bio-Optical Modeling for Ecosystems in Case II Waters
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Other, Oceanography
— University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2004) Modeling of extreme oceanographic events in the North East coast of Gran Canaria
Publications
- Development and performance of optical payloads in the wave glider 2016
- Implications of a new phase function for autonomous underwater imaging 2014
- ISR Implementation of ocean optics protocols to estimate spectral absorption coefficients of particles, suspended matters and phytoplankton pigments in ALOMEx'15 water samples: results and comparisons with satellite measurements
- Extending satellite remote sensing from the surface to the subsurface: ALOMEx’15 optical buoy deployment
- Post cruise brief: Atlantic LIDAR Optical Measurements Experiment 2015. ALOMEx 2015
- A review of the state of the art of Brillouin scattering LIDAR to determine vertical ocean profiles of sound speed and temperature
- Consortium planning for the ALOMEx15 sea trial
- Optical Water Types and Solar Heat content in the Ligurian Basin
Presentations
- NOMAD v3.0: Supporting PACE validation activities 2022
- NOMAD v3.0: Supporting PACE validation activities 2020