Dr. John McNabb is a physicist, presently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Hampton University. His career has been spent searching for understanding of things from the very small to the very large. He graduated with a B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and History from Washington and Jefferson College, followed by a Masters and PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He spent three years as a post-doc at Penn State studying gravitational waves with the LIGO collaboration. He is currently working at Hampton University on the AIM satellite mission as the Project Data Center Manager as well as doing research on analyzing CIPS data and improving the SOFIE data retrieval algorithms . He is also involved in analyzing data from the direct broadcast polar orbiting weather satellites that is available in near-real-time from the Direct Broadcast Antenna based at the Hampton University.
