John Kelly
Director for the Center for GeoSpace Studies, SRI
John Kelly, a physicist and program director for the Center for GeoSpace Studies in SRI's Engineering & Systems Division, has been for more than 25 years a leader in the use of incoherent scatter (IS) radar for remote atmospheric sensing. Under his direction, the SRI-run, NSF-funded facility in Sondrestrom, Greenland has become the world's leading radar of that kind, and his role in moving it from Alaska was a significant achievement. Dr. Kelly was also instrumental in promoting and establishing the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radars (AMISR) program despite enormous logistical and political barriers, with the result that SRI is regarded as one of the highest-ranking institutions in IS radar research.