Ritesh Gautam
Senior Director/Lead Senior Scientist @ Environmental Defense Fund | Formerly with NASA Goddard and IIT Bombay
- Role
- Senior Director Lead Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ritesh Gautam
Extensive expertise and leadership in satellite remote sensing, Earth observations, data…
Experience
Senior Director Lead Senior Scientist
Nov 2016 — Present
Science and Data Impact Leader at EDF for a number of satellite and airborne remote sensing programs including MethaneSAT, MethaneAIR and multi-satellite coordination with international aerospace agencies, industry and research organizations- Oversee large multidisciplinary teams and projects focused on satellite remote sensing, data analytics, AI/ML, methane emissions, high-resolution object detection, energy infrastructure mapping, air quality, climate- Responsible for conceptualizing, designing and delivering policy-relevant, quantitative and actionable data products and insights grounded in scientific and technological advancements- Strategy building and coordination of goals, requirements, data products, data stories across multidisciplinary stakeholders incl. marketing, communications, policy, industry, science, technology teams- Frequent coverage in major news media - interviewed by, work covered by CNN, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NPR, New York Times, MIT Tech Press, S&P Global, Nature, Science, EnergyWire, Times of India, New Scientist, NASA Earth Observatory, NDTV and numerous other media- Played central roles in developing strategic initiatives and successful proposals for funding from a range of philanthropies, foundations and government organizations- Author of >70 scholarly publications in diversity of high-impact journals incl. PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances; research work highly cited in peer-reviewed literature. & hl=en & oi=ao- Lead the international IGAC/SPARC sponsored ACAM (Atmospheric Composition and Asian Monsoon) activity involving hundreds of scientists from >15 countries in Asia and internationally. Led capacity building activities, convened workshops in 6 countries bringing international research and environmental community together to address important air pollution/air quality/climate issues- Report directly to executive leadership.
Skills
- Mathematical Modeling
- Climate Change
- Physics
- Environmental Science
- Modeling
- Science
- Image Processing
- Matlab
- Latex
- Fortran
- Envi
- R
- Spectroscopy
- Arcgis
- Idl
- Scientific Computing
- Numerical Analysis
- Idl Programming
- Statistics
- Scientific Writing
- Data Analysis
- Remote Sensing
- Meteorology
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