I'm Ernst J.O. (Ejo) Schrama, associate professor within the section
Astrodynamics and
Space Mission (
A&S)
at
the
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the
TU Delft in the Netherlands.
About me
I obtained my Dr. title within geodesy in 1989 by defending my PhD
thesis at the TU
Delft, where I received my Ir. degree in 1984. Between 1984 and 1988 I
was PhD student via a scholarship provided by
the Netherlands Academy of Scientific Research NWO. From 1989 to 1994 I
worked on a stipend
provided by the Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) enabling me to
visit the Space Geodesy branch at the
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1990 and 1993. In 1994 I became
assistant professor at the TU Delft and
in 2001 I was promoted to the associated level. In 2001 and 2002 I was
also part time employed at the WL Delft
hydraulics company, currently called
Deltares.
I'm co-investigator on the ERS-1/2 and Envisat altimeter missions and
principal investigator on the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 altimeter
missions, and I'm involved in numerous contract
studies related to ESA’s
GOCE
gravity gradiometer mission. At this moment we have a contract with ESA
related
to the
Cryosat-2
mission launched April 8, 2010. You can find me on
linkedin, my
articles are
here
and a meta-library is maintained
at
citeulike.
The
meta-library
enables you to retrieve published articles in my research
field.
Research
My main interests are in orbital dynamics and gravity field mapping,
application of radar satellite altimetry missions for studying tidal
physics, and related ocean model data assimilation
studies. Recent activities concern the interpretation of Greenland's
mass balance with NASA's
GRACE
mission. Some latest
results from our Greenland mass balance paper [
pdf]: