Robert Gamache, School of Marine Sciences, Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Robert Gamache, School of Marine Sciences, Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Dean of Marine Sciences, Professor
Expertise
Interaction of radiation with matter in the collision process, and chemistry & physics of atmospheres with particular application to remote sensing
Research Interest
The interaction of radiation with matter in the collision process, and chemistry and physics of atmospheres with particular application to remote sensing. He is one of the worlds leading authorities on the theory of the line shape of the molecules in the earth’s atmosphere. Gamache teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Educational Background
Ph. D. Physical Chemistry, 1978, Chemical Physics Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research: "The Theory of Molecular Crystal Defects and Small Molecules Trapped in Matrices"
M. S. Molecular Physics, 1976, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research: "The Electronic Structure of Solids via the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan Method"
B. S. Chemistry, 1973, Southeastern Massachusetts University
Research: "Raman Studies of Nucleic Acids"
Biosketch
Robert R. Gamache is the Dean of the University of Massachusetts School of Marine Sciences and professor in the Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has actively been involved with the University since 1978 as a researcher, teacher, and administrator for the Center for Atmospheric Research. He also has a long-standing research relationship with universities in France; with eight invited professorships since 1990. He spent his 2002 sabbatical leave as a CNRS research associate at the Laboratory of Molecular Photo-Physics at the University of Paris XI.
Aside from his 25-plus years as a faculty member, Gamache also began his educational experience at the University of Massachusetts, receiving his baccalaureate degree in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and his graduate degrees in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His areas of expertise and interest include the interaction of radiation with matter, the line shape problem, and chemistry and physics of atmospheres, particularly concentrating on application to remote sensing.
He has presented 128 papers at professional conferences and published 90 articles in referred journals. Gamache has also published over 40 scientific reports and has presented at numerous invited lectures in the United States, East and West Europe, Russia, and Africa. He was the co-recipient of the 1998 Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award, which is presented by Elsevier Science B.V. to the author(s) of the paper that makes the most significant contribution to spectroscopy. A number of papers, for which he was a co-author or principal author, have also been recognized for being highly cited in scientific literature.
He is currently principal investigator for several hundred thousand dollars in federal grants, with $2.3 million in external funding received to data. His current work involves Aqua and Aura satellite programs of NASA’s Earth Observing System, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission, Venus Express Mission and several satellite programs of EUMETSAT and CNES. Gamache is recognized as one of the leading researchers in his field.
Gamache is the coach and faculty adviser of the UMass Lowell Women's Ice Hockey Club.