Jacob Oberman is an undergraduate Chemical Engineering student who will graduate in August 2012.  His current work at SAGE with Dr. Tracey Holloway focuses on the use of satellite data to inform air quality analysis and policy.  He is the primary developer of the WHIPS open-source satellite data processing software. In addition to further development and maintenance of WHIPS, Jacob is actively involved in other, ongoing research projects Dr. Holloway’s group and acts as an informal administrator for the group workstations.

Jacob spent the summer of 2011 working with Dr. Arlene Fiore at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.  His work there compared the ability of two leading global chemical transport models (Atmospheric Model 3 and GEOS-Chem) to simulate policy relevant background ozone.  A manuscript detailing this work is expected to be submitted sometime in 2012.

In summer 2012, Jacob will start work with Accenture, a multinational consulting firm, as a systems integration analyst.  In his spare time, he enjoys reading, cooking and playing tennis.