Clayton Cantrall

Clayton Cantrall is now a Senior Research Staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His PhD research was on the use of optical remote sensing technologies to improve our understanding and ability to predict processes at the upper boundary of Earth’s atmosphere.

Education:

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022

M.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019

B.S., Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 2015

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships:

• Best Student Paper Award, NSF CEDAR Conference, 2021
• Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST), 2019-2022
• GAAN Fellowship in Critical Aerospace Technologies, 2019-2022

PhD Thesis:

Cantrall, C. E. (2022). New approaches for quantifying and understanding thermosphere temperature variability from far ultraviolet dayglow. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/new-approaches-quantifying-understanding/docview/2669590848/se-2

Publications:

Cantrall, C.E. & T. Matsuo (2021). Deriving column-integrated thermospheric temperature with the N₂ Lyman–Birge–Hopfield (2,0) band. Atmos Meas Tech, 14, 6917.

Cantrall, C.E., T. Matsuo, & S.C. Solomon (2019). Upper atmosphere radiance data assimilation: A feasibility study for GOLD far ultraviolet observations. J Geophys Res-Space, 124, 8154.