2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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APPENDIX A<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Steven E. Gaines<br />
January 16, 1949 - October 22, <strong>2008</strong><br />
Steve Gaines, one of the original<br />
members of the <strong>NASA</strong> Ames Earth<br />
<strong>Science</strong> Project Office (ESPO), and<br />
a major contributor to the airborne<br />
science community, died this past<br />
October after a brief battle with cancer. He<br />
was 59.<br />
Steve is best known for his tireless work<br />
managing the data from the major <strong>NASA</strong><br />
airborne field campaigns. Steve, along with<br />
Steve Hipskind, developed the data exchange<br />
format standards that came to bear his name.<br />
He was well known and had friends<br />
around the world, largely through his<br />
work on the field campaigns, and through<br />
the adoption of his format standards by<br />
other groups both nationally and internationally.<br />
In the late 1980’s, with the<br />
encouragement of Michael Prather, then<br />
managing the Atmospheric Composition,<br />
Modeling and Analysis <strong>Program</strong> at <strong>NASA</strong><br />
HQ, Steve became an early leader in<br />
adopting CDROM for the dissemination<br />
of the airborne datasets, before CDROM<br />
technology was in common use. Steve<br />
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