William Swartz

Dr. William Swartz is an atmospheric scientist and principal investigator with broad research experience in modeling/analysis, technology development, space mission development, field measurement and laboratory experimentation. Recently, he has been principal investigator (PI) of the Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes (RAVAN), a CubeSat pathfinder launched in 2016 to measure Earth’s energy budget, and the Compact Hyperspectral Air Pollution Sensor (CHAPS), an instrument development project to build and test a compact space instrument for the remote sensing of atmospheric pollution. He is also a longtime member of the NASA Aura/Ozone Monitoring Instrument NO2 retrieval team.