Eric Kort

Dr. Kort is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Michigan, Prof. Kort was a W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. Prof. Kort’s research focuses on greenhouse gases and air pollutants and has advanced our ability to observe and quantify human impacts on the atmosphere using ground, airborne, and space-based observations. His work been shown on the floor of the US Senate and has advanced our ability to understand emissions of oil and gas production, wetlands, cities, and agricultural regions. Kort is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the NASA New Investigator Program award in Earth Science. Kort holds a Ph.D. and S.M. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University and a B.S. in physics from Pomona College.