Jeffrey Arnold came to ERT to lead the new Innovation Foundry in October 2024 from MITRE Corporation where he had led geoscience research and development from the Emerging Technologies Innovation Center as Chief Scientist since 2022.
Jeff began his 25-year federal research career in computational and experimental atmospheric chemistry working in NOAA and USEPA national labs on sensor development and field work at the surface and aloft, and leading HPC-scale studies of atmospheric chemical transformations. He then created and led for more than 10 years the US Army Engineer national program for federal and university-based research that created and transformed field observations and continental-scale hydro-climatology model products into focused engineering inputs for national water and energy security.
Jeff’s work now involves innovation with machine learning emulators and other artificial intelligence components to simplify use of the very large arrays of Earth science and space weather data and corresponding numerical model products. The goal here is evaluation that helps ERT identify the most useful digital analytic approaches and computational models for supporting decisions and actions that enhance U.S. public safety and prosperity.
Jeff holds a Ph.D. in tropospheric chemistry and physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reviews for journals in the atmospheric and hydrologic sciences, and has co-written more than 150 peer-reviewed open-literature publications.
