Steven Babin

Steven Babin
Senior Meteorologist/Physician/Engineer
Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723
Phone: (240)-228-6704
E-mail: Steven.Babin-at-jhuapl.edu (replace -at- with @)

RESEARCH: Biosphere-atmosphere interaction, including weather, climate, and human-induced environmental effects on public health, disease, and ecosystems; use of disease detection in disaster preparedness and response; remote and in situ sensing; and atmospheric effects on electromagnetic propagation. Led team on discovery of open ocean hurricane-induced phytoplankton blooms.
EDUCATION:
- 1991-1996: University of Maryland Department of Meteorology, College Park, MD. PhD (Meteorolgy), May 1996; MS (Meteorology), May 1994. Included coursework in biosphere-atmosphere interaction. Advisor: Carton.
- 1981-1983: University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, Philadelphia, PA. MSE (Electrical Engineering & Science), 1983. Included coursework in quantum mechanics, mathematical methods of physics and remote sensing.
- 1980-1982: University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine , Philadelphia, PA. Pathology Resident. Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Medical License, 1981.
- 1976-1980: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK. MD, 1980.
- 1972-1976: University of Oklahoma College of Engineering, Norman, OK. BS (Engineering Physics) with Special Distinction, 1976.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:
TEACHING:
- Appeared in various media interviews promoting and explaining science, such as Earth and Sky on NPR, and American Institute of Physics: Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science.
- Visiting Lecturer in Meteorology at University of Maryland for Coastal Meteorology lecture and lab; including development of interactive CD-ROM instruction
- Visiting Lecturer in Meteorology at Naval Postgraduate School for Assessment of Atmospheric Factors in EM/EO Propagation course
- Lecturer at Maryland Space Grant Consortium for Remote Sensing in Marine and Coastal Meteorology
- Developed Educational Webpages (since 1994):
  - ATLANTIC HURRICANE PAGE -- maps and images have appeared in books and magazines, including February 2001 issue of National Geographic World (children's magazine), the covers of the August 2006 issue of National Geographic Magazine and CNN Reports: Katrina - State of Emergency
  - SATELLITE STORM IMAGES
  - WATER VAPOR MYTHS -- used as an educational resource link for Wikipedia Water vapor article and in New World Encyclopedia
  - METEOROLOGY HOTLIST
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
- Science advisor to Earth & Sky radio show
- Science advisor to A Moment of Science radio show
- Served as member of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consensus panel working group (2004-2005) for Implementation of Laboratory Data in BioSense Early Event Detection and Situation Awareness System.
- Peer-Reviewer for medical and health journals: Pediatrics, Inhalation Toxicology, Epidemiology and Infection, International Journal of Environmental Health Research, European Respiratory Journal, Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Research, and Journal of Medical Virology.
- Peer-reviewer for atmospheric and oceanographic science journals: Radio Science, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Annales Geophysicae, Journal of Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Journal of Marine Science, Advances in Space Research.
- Peer-Reviewer for NASA and NSF proposals.
- Volunteer judge at high school science fairs, 2000 to present.
AWARDS, HONORS, CERTIFICATES:
- Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honor society), 1974
- Outstanding Scholarship Award in Engineering Physics, 1976
- Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, 1981
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Medical License, 1981
- Letter of Commendation from the Applied Physics Laboratory Director, 1991
- Elected to Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1997
- Elected to Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1997
- Certificate of Completion, NCAR/Penn State MM5 mesoscale numerical weather prediction model tutorial, June 1999
- Elected to the US National Committee Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale Commission F (Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing), 2001
- JHU/APL Stuart S. Janney Program Training and Professional Development Fellowship, 2002
- US Army Greatest Inventions Program Award, from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, as participating team member for the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), 2003
- 2004 hurricane paper highlighted as a NASA Top Story, June 2004
- Certificate of Achievement for successful completion of the PC HYSPLIT Training Workshop, from NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, 3-5 May, 2005
- 2004 JHU/APL Outstanding Research Paper in an Externally Refereed Publication Award for hurricane paper, November, 2005
- 2005 JHU/APL R. W. Hart Prize Honoring Excellence in Independent Research and Development, as a team member on work involving Bayesian fusion of public health and biosensor data for disease outbreak classification, November, 2006
- 2006 JHU/APL Outstanding Special Publication Award, as coauthor for Chapter 6 entitled "Bayesian fusion of syndromic surveillance with sensor data for disease outbreak classification," in Science, Engineering, and Biology Informatics Vol. 2, Life Science Data Mining, World Scientific Publishing, pp. 119-140, 2006.
- March 24, 2009 Awarded US Patent 7508999: Fiber optic sensor device for measuring chromophoric compounds in biological fluid.
- December 8, 2009 Awarded US Patent 7629881: Sensor-based adaptive wearable devices and methods.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS (follow this link for listing)