How I spent my Summer Vacations – Measuring Climate Change at the Top of the World

Charles Miller received a B.S. in Chemistry and History from Duke University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Project Scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, and a Visiting Research Faculty member in Caltech’s Geological and Planetary Sciences Division.

He was Deputy Principal Investigator of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission to make global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide; Principal Investigator of the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE), a 5-year airborne science investigation designed to understand the impacts of climate change and permafrost thaw on Arctic carbon dioxide and methane emissions; and currently serves as the Deputy Science Lead of the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), a 10-year large-scale field experiment linking US and Canadian researchers. He conducts research in carbon cycle science, greenhouse gas emissions, atmospheric photochemistry, molecular spectroscopy, and developing new solutions for satellite remote sensing of greenhouse gases. ​