Robert R. Gamache, Ph.D.

Dean, the University of Massachusetts School of Marine Sciences; Professor

Phone: 978-934-3904

Fax: 978-934-4099

Office: Olney Hall 201

Email: robert_gamache@uml.edu

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1978

Dr. Gamache has been a member of the Lowell faculty since 1978 where he has served as an active researcher, teacher and an administrator for the Center for Atmospheric Research. He also has a long-standing research relationship with universities in France.  He has had eight invited professorships since 1990 and he spent his 2002 sabbatical leave as a CNRS research associate at the Laboratory of Molecular Photo-Physics of the University of Paris-XI.  Numerous times he has been asked to serve as the international member on committees of France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
 
Dr. Gamache has presented well over 100 papers at professional conferences, published 86 articles in refereed journals, published over 40 scientific reports, and has presented numerous invited lectures in the United States, Russia, North Africa, and Europe.  He is a member of the International Committee of the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Applications Symposium and the International Committee of the International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes.  He was the co-recipient of the 1998 Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award, which is presented by Pergamon Journals, Ltd. to the authors of the paper that makes the most significant contribution to spectroscopy. 
 
He is currently principal investigator for several hundred thousand dollars in federal grants, with over $2 million in external funding received to date.  Dr. Gamache’s current work involves the Aqua and Aura satellite programs of NASA’s Earth Observing System and several European Space Agency satellite programs of EUMETSAT and CNES.