Michael Heflin

SCIGN Scientist

Michael Heflin has been a member of the technical staff at JPL since 1991. His research involves interpretting data from SCIGN and deriving GPS time series, positions, and velocites. These can be found on the SCIGN time series homepage.

Michael is involved in the development of GIPSY software with other Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems (SGGS) Group members Michael Watkins, Frank Webb, and Jim Zumberge. GIPSY (GPS Inferred Positioning SYstem) is used by the SGGS Group to analyze GPS data and solve for precise orbital locations and clock offsets for the GPS spacecraft, and to compute the very precise daily site coordinates for the GPS ground sites. He also works on FLINN analysis of global and regional GPS data and the derivation of the SCIGN velocity field. He is also investigating the rate of change of JPL's position after the Northridge earthquake.

Michael received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, and his B.S. in Physics from Miami University in 1985. He has earned the JPL Award for Excellence, the NASA Group Achievement Award, and the GIPSY software award.

His professional interests include crustal deformation, earthquake hazards, software development, and teaching. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa.

When he is not busy doing research, Michael enjoys musical composition and performance and is an amateur radio technician.

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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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Last modified on 8/13/98 by Maggi Glasscoe (scignedu@jpl.nasa.gov)