The Hans Liebe Lectureship Series
The U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the International Union of Radio Scientists (URSI), with the generous support of the Liebe family, has established the Hans Liebe Lectureship in microwave and optical spectroscopy as applied to radio science, remote sensing, and telecommunications.
This lectureship provides travel support and an honorarium for a distinguished member of the radio science community to deliver a lecture on the professional topic of their interest at each of the annual USNC-URSI Radio Science meetings. A list of past lecturers is shown below along with their abstracts. NOTE: beginning in 2021, the video recording of the presentations are also available on the Video Archive page.
Dr. David D. Turner, NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
First Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2014
"Using Microwave and Submillimeter Radiometer Observations to Improve Climate Models"
Dr. Susanne Crewell, University of Cologne
Second Hans Liebe Lecturer, Vancouver APS-URSI meeting, July 2015
"Extending Operational Satellite Cloud Remote Sensing into the Submillimeter Range: The Challenge of Supercooled Liquid Water Absorption"
Dr. Paul G. Steffes, Georgia Institute of Technology
Third Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2016
"Microwave Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres from Spacecraft: The 50 Years from Mariner 2 to NASA-JUNO
Dr. Christian Mätzler, IAP Bern (retired)
Fourth Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2017
"Interactions of Microwaves with Ice and Snow - From Experiments to Models for Applications in Remote Sensing"
Dr. Maria P. Cadeddu, Argonne National Laboratory
Fifth Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2018
"Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing Studies with the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Ground-based Microwave and Millimeter-wave Radiometers: A Review of Accomplishments and Recent Challenges"
Dr. Domenico Cimini, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (CNR-IMAA), Italy
Sixth Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2019
"Fostering Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry: From Uncertainty to Networking"
Dr. Vivienne Payne, Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology
Seventh Hans Liebe Lecturer, Montreal APS-URSI meeting, July 2020
"Evaluating Microwave Spectroscopy Using Ground-Based Radiometers"
Dr. Brian J. Drouin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology
Eighth Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2021
"Molecular Oxygen Absorptions from Red to Radio"
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Dr. Mikhail Tretyakov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Ninth Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2022
"Laboratory Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Gases in the Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Range"
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Dr. Stefan Buehler, Director of the Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Tenth Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2023
"How Water Shapes Climate"
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Dr. Ulrich Löhnert, University of Cologne, Germany
Eleventh Hans Liebe Lecturer, Boulder USNC-URSI meeting, January 2024
"Ground-Based Microwave Radiometers: Missing Puzzle Pieces in Laying the Picture of the Atmospheric State"
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