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John Adams
Professor Dept of Earth and Space Sciences UW-ESS; Mailstop 351310 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-1310 Office: 331 Johnson Hall Phone : 206-685-8265 Fax (shared) : 206-685-2379 |
| John Adams received a B.S. in geology from Stanford University in 1956 and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Washington in 1961. He worked at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on early geological exploration of the moon and planets, and was instrumental in developing reflectance spectroscopy as a remote-sensing method. He was one of the first scientists to study lunar samples. After spending several years at the West Indies Laboratory in St. Croix, he returned to the University of Washington in 1975, where he continued research on planetary surfaces and applied new remote-sensing spectroscopic techniques to the earth. During the 1980's and 1990's he studied geomorphic processes and weathering in arid regions, including the role of microorganisms in concentrating and mobilizing elements at desert surfaces. He also worked on the spectroscopy of vegetation, and using remote sensing to characterize terrestrial ecosystems, ranging from arid lands to tropical forests, at the landscape scale. Adams was Chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences from 1979 to 1984. He established the Remote Sensing Laboratory, and held joint appointments in the Departments of Geological Sciences and Astronomy. Adams retired from regular teaching duties in 1996. He currently is preparing a book for Cambridge University Press on remote sensing with co-author Alan Gillespie, and spends much of his time close to the North Cascade Mountains in the Methow Valley of Washington. |
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Links ESS Department short bio web site : http://www.geology.washington.edu/People/Faculty-bio/adams-bio.html Publications: Classification of Multispectral Images Based on Fractions of Endmembers: Application to Land-Cover Change in the Brazilian Amazon |