Kimberly Casey, Ph.D.

Dr. Casey conducts remote sensing research investigations of cryospheric, terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric processes. She has expertise in field-to-satellite scale investigations, snow, ice and debris mineralogy and geochemistry characterization from space. She has worked on planetary analogs and her field experience includes sampling in extreme environments from saline flats and water bodies to sample and ice core retrievals at glaciers and ice sheets.  She has conducted field work and led observation campaigns in terrestrial, aquatic, glaciers and ice sheets on nearly all continents on Earth. She works to quantify and differentiate space sensor performance and characterization of Earth surface change over time.  She has experience in analytical chemistry techniques, including ice core and surface ice composition characterization, aquatic and tree core digestion analysis.

Dr. Casey also co-leads the Requirements, Analysis and Capabilities for Earth Observation project, providing support toward internal, federal, domestic and international sensor programs, initiatives and tasks.  She oversees the Earth Observation sensor compendium, online search tool and related living database and participates in sensor characterizations. Dr. Casey serves as the USGS lead for various remote sensing working groups.  Dr. Casey was involved with the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission initial science team and takes part in current working groups as well as NASA Surface Biology and Geology Mission algorithm, calibration/validation and applications working groups. She has served on the NASA ASTER Science Team and has over two decades of experience in civil space.