Amy Jo Scarino, HSRL scientific analyst at NASA Langley

Amy Jo Scarino is a scientific analyst and programmer in the airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) group at NASA Langley Research Center. She has worked as a contractor (SSAI 2008–2023, CAI 2023–current) supporting the Science Directorate Lidar Science Branch since 2009. Scarino is responsible for processing, archiving and analyzing HSRL data sets for airborne field missions and for research applications to lidar measurements.

She is experienced in computing mixed layer (ML) heights from HSRL aerosol backscatter profiles and conducting quality-control analysis of those ML heights. She was a project meteorologist for the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems (NAAMES, 2015–2018) and for the Aerosol Cloud meteorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE, 2020–2022) Earth Venture Suborbital field missions.

Earlier, she completed a NASA DEVELOP summer internship in 2007 and served as Science Projects Manager supporting the NASA DEVELOP National Program Office from 2008–2009, assisting the NASA Applied Sciences program with coordinating activities for Group on Earth Observations Task US-09-01a.

Scarino co-authored a 2014 paper comparing mixed layer heights from airborne HSRL, ground-based measurements and the WRF-Chem model. She received a NASA Early Career Achievement Medal in 2018, holds a B.S.

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