Jack Fishman, Ph.D. | Setting the Stage | Saint Louis Climate Summit

Jack Fishman was a featured speaker of the Saint Louis Climate Summit. He spoke at the Nine Network of Public Media on April 23, 2018.

Saint Louis University hosted the Saint Louis Climate Summit, April 22-24, 2018, as part of its bicentennial anniversary celebration and to honor Pope Francis’ call to unite leaders in defense of the health and well-being of the planet.

Dr. Jack Fishman, organizer and conference chair of the Saint Louis Climate Summit, is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences. Before coming to SLU, he worked at the NASA Langley Research Center for 31 years, where his research focused on tropospheric chemistry and he pioneered the use of satellite observations to provide a unique and eye-opening perspective on the extent of global air pollution. In 1992, he led a multinational NASA-led aircraft field campaign, TRACE-A (Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator-Atlantic), that confirmed and provided an explanation for his satellite findings of extensive pollution from biomass burning in southern Africa and South America, which circumnavigated the southern hemisphere. He received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the highest award that can be given to a NASA scientist, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.