Waleed Abdalati

Waleed Abdalati ya rike mukamin Babban Masanin Kimiyya na NASA daga 3 Janairu 2011 zuwa Disamba 2012.  An nada Abdalati a kan wannan mukamin a ranar 13 ga Disamba 2010 ta hannun Shugaban Hukumar NASA Charles Bolden .  Abdalati a baya ya yi aiki da NASA a matsayin Shugaban Kimiyyar Cryospheric a Cibiyar Jirgin Sama ta Goddard tsakanin Janairu 2004 da Yuni 2008. 

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
Abdalati ya girma a New Hartford, New York kuma ya rasa mahaifinsa yana da shekaru 12. 

Abdalati ya sami digiri na farko na Kimiyya (cum laude) daga Ma'aikatar Injiniya da Injiniyan sararin samaniya ta Jami'ar Syracuse a shekarar 1986,  kuma daga baya ya kammala karatun digiri a Jami'ar Colorado, inda ya sami M.Sc. a cikin 1991 daga Sashen Injiniyan Aerospace da Ph.D. a cikin 1996 daga Sashen Geography. A cikin bincikensa na digiri, Abdalati ya haɓaka algorithm don amfani da rabo na ƙananan microwave guda biyu na firikwensin Microwave / Imager na Musamman (SSM / I) a cikin motocin Tsaro na Tsaro na Yanayi (DMSP) don gano canje-canje a cikin sararin samaniya na narkewar shekara-shekara na Greenland.

 Ayyuka 
Abdalati ya kasance mai ba da gudummawa ga NASA daga Jami'ar Colorado a Boulder, inda yake Darakta na Cibiyar Kimiyya da Bincike ta Duniya a Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyyar Muhalli  kuma mataimakin farfesa a Sashen Geography.  Shi ne darektan yanzu na Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyyar Muhalli.

A watan Nuwamba 2020, an kira Abdalati memba na Joe Biden shugabancin shugaban kasa na sake dubawa don tallafawa kokarin sauyawa da ke da alaƙa da Hukumar Kula da Jiragen Sama da Sararin samaniya ta Kasa. 

 Daraja da kyaututtuka 

 Fellow, Ƙungiyar Amurka don Ci gaban Kimiyya (tun 2019) 
 NASA GSFC Cibiyar Daraktan Team Recognition Award, 2007
 Cibiyar Nazarin Jirgin Sama ta Amurka da Astronaustics Space Systems Award, 2006
 Medal na Musamman na Aironautics da Space Administration, 2004
 Kyautar Nasarar Kungiyar NASA, ICESat Science Team, 2004
 Kyautar Ofishin Kimiyya na Duniya na NASA, 2003
 Kyautar Nasarar Kungiyar NASA, Kyautar Kyautar Kyauta ta 2003
 NASA Ofishin Kimiyya na Duniya Terra Peer Award, 2002
 Kyautar Ofishin Kimiyya na Duniya na NASA, 2002
 Kyautar Ofishin Kimiyya na Duniya na NASA, 2001
 Kyautar Farko ta Shugaban kasa ga Masana kimiyya da Injiniyoyi, 1999
 Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society (tun 1985) 

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