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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Moustafa T. Chahine is Chief Scientist of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.
After receiving his Ph.D. in fluid physics from the University of
California at Berkeley (1960), he joined JPL as Research Scientist.
From 1975 to 1978 he headed the Planetary Atmosphere Section. In
1978, he was responsible for establishing the Division of Earth and
Space Sciences at JPL and for overseeing the diverse activities of
its 400 researchers until 1984. Dr. Chahine has served as a member
of the NASA Earth System Sciences Committee and is currently Chairman
of the World Climate Research Programme's Global Energy and Water
Cycle Experiment . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American
Meteorological Society, and the British Meteorological Society and is
a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. His current
research activities are in the study of the effects of increased CO2
on the Earth's hydrological cycle and the comparative climatology of
Mars, Venus, and Earth.
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