Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer

Staff, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
Atmospheric Science Branch (SGG)
Business Email: michal.segalrozenhaimer@nasa.gov
Business Phone: (650) 604-4392

Bio:

Dr. Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer received her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2011 from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she focused on Atmospheric Chemistry, studying atmospheric fate and aging of toxic aerosols such as pesticides using remote sensing measurements in the thermal IR spectral range. She joined NASA Ames in 2011 as a NASA Post-Doctoral Fellow (NPP), working on developing gas and cloud retrieval algorithms for a newly developed airborne sun-sky photometer 4STAR. In 2013 she joined the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute as a research Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, working with 4STAR on multiple NASA airborne missions such as ARISE, KORUS-AQ and ORACLES.

Overall, her work is focused on atmospheric measurements (satellite, airborne and ground-based) using remote sensing and in-situ methods and their utilization in improving our understanding of the Earth-Atmosphere radiative budget, Climate and Air-Quality.

Among her research projects, she is leading airborne observation-based Arctic research focusing on improving radiative flux and cloud predictions in climate models through her NASA NIP grant. In recent years, she has been working on the development of cloud retrieval algorithms using neural-network and convolutional neural-networks from various airborne and space-borne platforms such as RSP, WV-2, Sentinel and SEVIRI through the NeMO-Net and her NASA ACMAP projects. Since 2019 she is also affiliated with the Tel-Aviv University in Israel as a senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the Porter School of Environmental and Earth Sciences.

CV:

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hyperspectral remote sensing (optical and thermal sensors)
Application of statistical and machine learning methods in Atmospheric Science
Atmospheric composition – Air quality and long range transport
Atmospheric composition – Clouds, Radiation and Climate

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – IIT (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel, 2011
M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering (Water, Soil, and Environmental Sciences), Technion, 2002, with honors
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel, 1999, with honors
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Scientist – Bay Area Environmental Institute (BAER), NASA Ames Research Center, 2013-
NASA Post-Doctoral Fellow – NASA Ames Research Center, CA, 2011-2013
Research Associate – Technion R&D Institute, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel, 2010-11
Research Assistant  – Technion, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000-2002, 2005-2010

FIELD EXPERIENCE
NASA ARISE (Arctic Radiation, IceBridge, Sea&Ice Experiment), Fairbanks, AK, 09-10/14, instrument scientist and operator on C-130 aircraft, flight planner.
NASA/DOE TCAP (Two Column Aerosol Project),Cape-Cod, MA, 02/13, scientist.
USAID Lower Jordan River water quality project, Israel, 2001-02, water and sediment samples from the Jordan River and vicinity, scientist.

AWARDS AND HONORS
Bachelor of Science in chemical Engineering graduation honor, Technion, Israel, 1999
Master of Science in Agriculture Engineering graduation honor, Technion, Israel,  2002
Gutwirth Excellence Award, Technion, Israel                                                        2002, 2008
Jacobs Excellence Award, Technion, Israel                                                                     2007
The “whole organism” Excellence award, Israeli Ministry of Agriculture,         2007-2008

RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
EU COST action school- environmental technologies and Air-quality monitoring Invited trainee,
Barcelona,    Spain                                                                                                           13-15 June, 2013
NASA Post-doctoral Fellowship program (NPP)                                                                    2011-2013
Environmental Health Foundation (EHF), Organophosphates in Hula Basin: atmospheric levels, transport, degradation products and neurotoxic hazards in children following low-level long-term exposure,  2010-2013
Technion Institute of R&D, Detection of toxic aerosols by open-path FTIR,                      2010-2011
Advancing Women in Science Fellowship, Weizmann Institute, Israel                             2010-2012
Minerva Research Fellowship (Israel-Germany Exchange)                                                           2009
Levi Eshkol Doctoral Fellowship – Israeli Ministry of Science                                             2008-2010
Rieger JNF Fellowship for research in Environmental Science (USA)                          2001-2, 2007

First Author Publications: 

• Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2014), Tracking elevated pollution layers with a newly developed hyperspectral Sun/Sky spectrometer (4STAR): Results from the TCAP 2012 and 2013 campaigns, J. Geophys. Res., 119, JD020884, doi:10.1002/.
• Segal-Rozenhaimer, M., et al. (2013), Retrieval of cirrus properties by Sun photometry: A new perspective on an old issue, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 4503-4520, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50185.

Co-Authored Publications: 

• Knobelspiesse, K., et al. (2015), Remote sensing of mixed cloud and aerosol scenes. chapter in Light Scattering Reviews, Springer Praxis Books, 9, 167-210, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37985-7_5.
• Dunagan, S. E., et al. (2013), Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR): Instrument Technology, Remote Sens., 5, 3872-3895, doi:10.3390/rs5083872.
• Shinozuka, Y., et al. (2013), Hyperspectral aerosol optical depths from TCAP flights, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 12,180-12,194, doi:10.1002/2013JD020596.