Jay Parker

Information Scientist

Jay Parker joined the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group in 1996, and has been part of the JPL technical staff since 1989. He completed both a master's and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and graduated with a Bachelors of Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1981.

His professional interests lie in applications of fast and accurate numerical models to geophysical remote sensing. Past modeling projects include vortex formation in the ionospheric D region, parallel supercomputer modeling of radar scattering and antenna power patterns, and high-fidelity modeling of clear-air infra-red spectra for determining climate change and pollution sources.

He is currently working on methods to invert SCIGN motion data to determine earthquake and after-slip fault movements, finite element models of earthquake cycles, and new methods for GPS data processing on supercomputers.

Jay has been inducted into Tau Beta Pi, and received a JPL Technology and Applications Programs Group Achievement Award. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Outside of work Jay enjoys exploring the local mountains, reading 19th century literature, and collecting folk music albums.

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Andrea Donnellan || Maggi Glasscoe || Michael Heflin || Ken Hurst || David Jefferson || Greg Lyzenga || Anne Mikolajcik || Jay Parker || Mark Smith || Michael Watkins || Frank Webb || Jim Zumberge

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