Steve Nerem

Focus Area

Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation

Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989
MS, Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985
BS, Geology, Colorado State University, 1982

Professional Experience

2023 - Present, Director, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR), University of Colorado Boulder
2000 - Present, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2002 - 2023, Associate Director of Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR), University of Colorado Boulder
1999 - 2000, Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
1996 - 1999, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
1989 - 1996, Geophysicist, Space Geodesy Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Awards (selected)

American Astronautical Society Earth Science and Applications Award (2014)
Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2010)
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2008)
Geodesy Section Award, American Geophysical Union (2006)
Bowie Lecturer, American Geophysical Union (2005)
Big XII Faculty Fellowship (1998-1999)
Faculty Excellence Awards Recipient, Halliburton Foundation Young Faculty Award (1998)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1995)
NASA/GSFC Performance Award (Outstanding) (1994)
NASA/GSFC Certificate of Outstanding Performance (1994)
NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award (TOPEX/POSEIDON Precision Orbit Determination Team) (1994)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award (TOPEX/Poseidon Precision Orbit Determination Team) (1994)
Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters (1993)
NASA/GSFC Certificate of Outstanding Performance (1993)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Quality Increase Award (1993)
NASA/GSFC Special Act Group Award, Lageos II Project Team (1993)
NASA Group Achievement Award (TOPEX/Poseidon Mission Design) (1993)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award (Lageos-2 Project Team) (1993)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award (Joint Gravity Model 1 Team) (1993)

Research Interests

Satellite altimetry
Sea level change
Earth gravity field determination
Time variations of the Earth's gravity field
Planetary geodesy
Precision orbit determination
Astrodynamics