Forrest Hall, JCET, Receives William T. Pecora Award

Forrest Hall, senior research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, received the William T. Pecora Award at the December 2009 AGU Meeting in San Francisco, California. This award, initiated in 1974 and presented annually, recognizes outstanding contributions by individuals or groups toward understanding the Earth by means of remote sensing. Hall has been active in the field of remote sensing since 1972. He currently serves as research scientist and project manager for the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS), and principal investigator for the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP).