Rui M Ponte
Aquarius Science Team Investigator
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
131 Hartwell Avenue
Lexington, MA 02421-3136

Phone: 781-761-2288
Email: rponte@aer.com

Dr. Ponte researches atmospherically-driven sea level and bottom pressure variability, ocean angular momentum and Earth's variable rotation and gravity field, mechanisms of exchange of angular momentum among the oceans, atmosphere and solid Earth, intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere and oceans, and influence of topography and variable mixing on the deep circulation. He serves as an investigator on NASA's Earth Observing System Project, is a science team member on NASA-CNES altimeter missions (TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1) and on the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. Dr. Ponte also serves as a member of IAU/IUGG Working Group on Non-Rigid Earth Nutation Theory, IAG Special Study Group on Interactions of the Earth's Rotational Dynamics with the Oceans and Atmospheres, and IERS Special Bureau for the Ocean.