Richard Kolyer

Affiliation: Staff, NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)

Branch: Atmospheric Science Branch (SGG)

Email: r.kolyer@nasa.gov

Phone: 650-604-5503

Education

Graduate Naval Electronics Technician, 1984

Professional Experience

NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

2005-Lead Technician, UAV camera payload

1998-2004-Lead Technician, Sunphotometer instruments

1990-present-Lead Technician, PANAK instrument

1987-1992-Lead Technician, Ozone Photometer instrument

 U.S. Navy
1984-1986-In-flight Electronics/Avionics Technician, P-3C aircraft

Contributions

Fifteen years as lead technician in support of cutting edge scientific instrumentation used in studies of the composition and chemistry of the atmosphere. Developed, built, integrated, operated, and troubleshot the electronics of instruments used during the following campaigns: 

• Ames Ozone Ultraviolet Photometer instrument on board NASA ER-2 during first Antarctic Ozone expedition (1987).
• Computer based real-time ozone data downlink system for Ames ER-2 telemetry experiments (1988).
• Ames Particle Sampler cockpit switch recording circuitry for use on board NASA ER-2 (1988).
• Ames Fast Chemiluminescent Ozone instrument during the San Juaquin Pollution Study (1990).
• Computer controlled data acquisition and control system for Ames PANAK instrument (1992; upgraded system in 1995,1998, 2000, 2004, 2005)
• PANAK instrument on board NASA DC-8 for PEM West A, PEM West B, TRACE A, SONEX, PEM Tropics A, PEM Tropics B expeditions, INTEX A, INTEX B (1992-2006). 
• Ames 6 channel Sun Photometer (1999).
• AATS-14 Sunphotometer on board UW CV-580 aircraft during SAFARI2000 South African field campaign. (Aug/Sept 2000).
• AATS-6 Sunphotometer on board NCAR C-130 aircraft during ACE-Asia field campaign (April/May 2001)
• AATS-14 Sunphotometer on board NASA DC-8 aircraft during SOLVE 2 mission to Arctic (Feb/Mar 2003)

Honors & Awards

• Eight Spotlight cash awards given in recognition of exemplary efforts made to meet instrument development and deployment milestones (1996-2003).
• NASA Group Achievement Award, SAGE Ozone Loss Validation Experiment DC-8 Science Team, 2005
• NASA Group Achievement Award, Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Team, 2004
• NASA Group Achievement Award, DC-8 Aircraft SONEX team, 1997
• NASA Group Achievement Award, Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment Team, 1995
• NASA Group Achievement Award, Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment Team, 1989

Professional Association

Registered Professional Engineer (PE), Mechanical Engineering, State of California

Selected Publications

Singh, H. B., L. Salas, D. Herlth, R. Kolyer, E. Czech, W. Viezee, Q. Li, D. J. Jacob, D. Blake, G. Sachse, C. N. Harward, H. Fuelberg, C. M. Kiley, Y. Zhao, and Y. Kondo. 2003. In situ measurements of HCN and CH3CN over the Pacific Ocean: Sources, sinks, and budgets, J. Geophys. Res., 108: 1029-2002-

Singh, H. B., D. Herlth, R. Kolyer, L. Salas, J. D. Bradshaw, S. T. Sandholm, D. D. Davis, J. Crawford, Y. Kondo, M. Koike, R. Talbot, G. L. Gregory, G. W. Sachse, E. Browell, D. R. Blake, F. S. Rowland, R. Newell, J. Merrill, B. Heikes, S. C. Liu, P. J. Crutzen, and M. Kanakidou. 1996. Reactive nitrogen and ozone relationships over the western Pacific: distribution, partitioning and sources. J. Geophys. Res., 101(D1): 1793-1808. –

Singh, H. B., D. Herlth, R. Kolyer, R. Chatfield, W. Viezee, L. J. Salas, Y. Chen, J. D. Bradshaw, S. T. Sandholm, R. Talbot, G. L. Gregory, B. Anderson, G. W. Sachse, E. Browell, A. S. Bachmeier, D. R. Blake, B. Heikes, D. Jacob, and H. E. Fuelberg. 1996. Impact of biomass burning emissions on the composition of the South Atlantic troposphere: Reactive nitrogen and ozone. J. Geophys. Res., 101(D19): 24203-24220, 10.1029/96JD01018. –

Co-Authored Publications

• Reynolds, K. W., et al. (2015), Repurposing Surplus Unmanned Aircraft Systems Into UAS Platforms For Science Missions, Auvsi.
• Singh, H., et al. (2007), Reactive nitrogen distribution and partitioning in the North American troposphere and lowermost stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D12S04, doi:10.1029/2006JD007664.
• Livingston, J. M., et al. (2005), Retrieval of ozone column content from airborne Sun photometer measurements during SOLVE II: Comparison with coincident satellite and aircraft measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 2035-2054.
• Russell, P. B., et al. (2005), Aerosol optical depth measurements by airborne sun photometer in SOLVE II: Comparisons to SAGE III, POAM III and airborne spectrometer measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 1311-1339, doi:10.5194/acp-5-1311-2005.
• Singh, H., et al. (2003), In-situ measurements of HCN and CH3CN in the Pacific troposphere: Souces, sinks, and comparisons with spectroscopic observation, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8795, doi:10.1029/2002JD003006.
• Singh, H., et al. (1996), Reactive nitrogen and ozone over the western Pacific: Distribution, partitioning and sources, J. Geophys. Res., 101.D1, 1793-1808.
• Singh, H., et al. (1996), Impact of biomass burning emissions on the composition of the south Atlantic troposphere: Reactive nitrogen and ozone, J. Geophys. Res., 101.D19, 24,203-24.