Dr. Craig R. Ferguson serves as program manager for NASA’s Earth Science Division Research Element Hydrosphere program, project scientist for the Integrated Modeling Virtual Institute Scientific Computing program, and Earth Science Division co-lead for High-End Computing. He serves as program scientist for SMAP and deputy program scientist for the NISAR and SWOT satellite missions, the Snow4Flow Earth Venture Suborbital-4 airborne mission, and the Planetary Boundary Layer Decadal Survey Incubation mission concept. Dr. Ferguson joined NASA in March 2024, bringing with him a decade of experience as a tenured research professor in atmospheric science at the University at Albany, SUNY. He secured $5 million in competitively awarded federal funding from NSF, NOAA, DOE, and NASA. Dr. Ferguson holds a Ph.D. and M.A.