Manager, Scientific Programmers

B.A., summa cum laude, Fordham University, 1987

Specialties [top]

Data algorithms for passive microwave; algorithms to combine snow and sea ice data from a variety of visible and microwave satellite imagery; passive microwave remote sensing of snow; satellite data gridding schemes

Recent Highlights top]

National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO 1993-present

Technical Staff, Logicon Strategic and Information Systems Division, Colorado Springs and Boulder, CO, 1988-1993.

Current Roles [top]

Mary Jo is Manager of Scientific Programmers at NSIDC, managing a team of ten science programming professionals who support the research scientists and data management contracts at NSIDC, with skills in computer programming, systems and data analysis, and data set development.

Activities[top]

Member, IEEE
Member, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

Publications[top]

Selected Data Sets

Armstrong, R.L. and M.J. Brodzik. 2005, updated 2007. Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid weekly snow cover and sea ice extent version 3. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

Armstrong, R. L., M. J. Brodzik, K. Knowles and M. Savoie.  2005, updated 2007.  Global monthly EASE-Grid snow water equivalent climatology.  Boulder, CO:  National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

Armstrong, R.L., K.W. Knowles, M.J. Brodzik and M.A. Hardman. 1994, updated 2007. DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder daily EASE-Grid brightness temperatures. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

Brodzik, M. J., R. L. Armstrong, and M. Savoie. 2007. Global EASE-Grid 8-day blended SSM/I and MODIS snow cover. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

Knowles, K., E. Njoku, R. Armstrong, and M.J. Brodzik. 2002. Nimbus-7 SMMR Pathfinder daily EASE-Grid brightness temperatures. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media and CD-ROM.

Nolin, A., R.L. Armstrong, and J. Maslanik. 1998, updated daily. Near real-time SSM/I EASE-Grid daily global ice concentration and snow extent. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.

Selected Journal Articles

Brodzik, M. J. and K. W. Knowles. 2002. "EASE-Grid: A Versatile Set of Equal-area Projections and Grids." In M. Goodchild (Ed.) Discrete Global Grids.  Santa Barbara, CA, USA: National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/globalgrids-book/ease_grid/.

Parsons, M. A., M. J. Brodzik and N. J. Rutter.  2004.  Data Management for the Cold Land Processes Experiment:  Improving Hydrological Science.  Hydrological Processes 18(18):3637-3653.

Related Resources [top]

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

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