Dr. Petr Chylek, currently a Remote Sensing Team Leader in the Space and Remote Sensing Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor at the NMSU Physics Department, held faculty positions at several US universities including SUNY Albany, Purdue University, and the University of Oklahoma. Before joining LANL in 2001 he was a Professor of Physics and the holder of a Senior Chair in Climate Research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He also spent several years as a visiting scientist at MIT, Harvard University, and NMSU. He is an author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of light scattering, radiative transfer, remote sensing, and climate research. He is a LANL Fellow, as well as a Fellow of the American Optical Society and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.