Jeff France, Ph.D.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
3665 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303
, 970-420-8402
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Dec 2012
Dissertation title: “A Climatology of the Stratopause in the Polar Vortices and Anticyclones: Observations and Global Modeling”
Advisor: V. Lynn Harvey, Ph.D.
M.S., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009
B.S., Physics, Rhodes College, 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Scientist II 2017-
GATS, Inc., Boulder, CO
Research Scientist II 2017-
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2013-2017
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Graduate Research Assistant 2007-2012
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, University of Colorado at Boulder
Adjunct Faculty 2011
Earth Sciences Department, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Teaching Assistant 2006
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, University of Colorado at Boulder
Science advisor to Memphis public high schools 2004-2005
Depts. of Physics and Biology, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
Laboratory Teaching Assistant 2003-2005
Physics Department, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2004
High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee, 2018
Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics
Referee, 2018
Atmosphere
Referee, 2018
Atmosphere
Computer Services Advisory Committee, 2017-
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Referee, 2017
Scientific Online Letters of the Atmosphere
Referee, 2017
Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics
Judge, 2016
AGU Fall Meeting
Proposal Reviewer, 2016
NSF
Proposal Review Panelist, 2016
NSF
Referee, 2016
Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics
Referee, 2016
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Judge, ATOC student poster conference, 2014-2017
University of Colorado's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Judge, Young Scientists Symposium for Atmospheric Research, 2016
Colorado State University
Referee, 2015
Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres
Referee, 2014
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Referee, 2013
Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres
Seminar Committee Member, 2007-2012
University of Colorado's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Prospective Student Committee, 2007-2008
University of Colorado's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS
American Meteorological Society member, 2012-present
American Geophysical Union member, 2007-present
Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society)
Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society)
Performance Award for Most Outstanding Physics Student, Rhodes College, 2005
Presidential Scholarship, Rhodes College,2002-2006
INVITED TALKS
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, S. C. Bailey, J. N. Carstens, J. D. Lumpe, J. M. Russell III, The Influence of Planetary Waves on Polar Mesospheric Clouds (Invited), American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, SA53C, San Francisco, California, December 2016.
Randall, C. E., V. L. Harvey, J. A. France, L. A. Holt, D. E. Siskind, J. D. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, J. M. Russell III, Inferences of Dynamical Coupling in Recent PMC Seasons, Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region, Boulder, CO 10-13 August 2015.
France, J.A., V. Harvey, C. Randall, R. Collins, A. Smith, E. Peck, X. Fang, A Climatology of Planetary Wave-Driven Polar Mesospheric Inversion Layers, High Altitude Observatory (HAO) Seminar, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, 24 October 2014.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, J. Gille, HIRDLS, MLS, and SABER observations of the stratopause, HIRDLS Science Team Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 27-29 September 2010.
Harvey, V. L., R. Collins, C. E. Randall, J. A. France, and D. Wheeler, The Arctic polar stratosphere and mesosphere during IPY 2007-2008, Mesosphere Lower Thermosphere Seminar, Boulder, Colorado, 14 March 2008.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Harvey, V. L., Randall, C. E., Goncharenko, L., Becker, E., & France, J. (2018), On the upward extension of the polar vortices into the mesosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123,
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, R.S. Lieberman, V. L. Harvey, S. D. Eckermann, D. E. Siskind, J. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, J. N. Carstens, and J. M. Russell III (2018), Local and Remote Planetary Wave Effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds in the Northern Hemisphere in 2014, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2017JD028224.
Randall, C. E., J. Carstins, J. A. France, V. L. Harvey, S. M. Bailey, J. D. Lumpe, J. Yue, B. Thurairajah, D. E. Siskind, Y. Zhao, M. J. Yaylor, J. M. Russell III (2017), New AIM/CIPS Global Observations of Gravity Waves near 50-55 km. Geophys. Res. Lett.,
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, R. L. Collins, A. K. Smith, E. D. Peck, and X. Fang (2015), A climatology of planetary wave-driven mesospheric inversion layers in the extratropical winter, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 399–413, doi:10.1002/2014JD022244.
France, J. A.,V. L. Harvey (2013), A climatology of the stratopause in WACCM and the zonally asymmetric elevated stratopause, J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50218.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, M. J. Alexander, C. E. Randall, J. C. Gille (2012), High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of the gravity wave-driven elevated stratopause in 2006, J. Geophys. Res., 117, doi:10.1029/2012JD017958.
France, J. A.,V. L. Harvey,C. E. Randall, M. H. Hitchman, and M. J. Schwartz (2012), Stratopause Height and Temperature in the Polar Vortex and Anticyclones, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JD016893.
Randall, C. E., V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, J. A. France, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, and K. A. Walker (2009), NOx descent in the Arctic middle atmosphere in early 2009, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL039706.
UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS
France, J. A. (2012),A climatology of the stratopause in the polar vortices and anticyclones: Observations and global modeling (PhD Thesis), University of Colorado at Boulder, 2012, 161 pages; 3549188
UNREFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
J. A. France, R. S. Lieberman, The Role of Inertial Instability and the quasi 2-day wave in Coupling Wintertime Planetary Waves with the Polar Summer Mesopause, COSPAR General Assembly, Pasadena, CA, 14-22 July 2018.
Shiben, E., J. Yue, J. M. Russell III, J. Macnabb, J. A. France, C. E. Randall, Atmospheric Gravity Waves in the Stratopause/Lower Mesosphere Region Using NASA AIM/ CIPS Observations, CEDAR Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, June 2018.
Pettit, J., J. France, C. E. Randall, WACCM Studies at CU/LASP, CESM workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 21 June, 2018.
Randall, C. E., J. Carstins, J. A. France, J. Lumpe, CIPS instrument status, data products status; data quality, issues and plans; continuous imaging and full sun mode PMC and GW data products status, AIM Science Team Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, 4-7 June 2017.
J. A. France, R. G. Stockwell, Randall, C. E., J. Carstins, FFT Filter Overview, AIM Science Team Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, 4-7 June 2017.
Shiben, E., J. Yue, J. M. Russell III, J. Macnabb, J. A. France, C. E. Randall,Variance Measurements of V1.1 RAA Data, AIM Science Team Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, 4-7 June 2017.
Harvey, V. L., J. A. Knox, P. Hitchcock, M. Fujiwara, and J. France, Comparison of the polar vortices in five reanalyses datasets, American Geophysical Union Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, December, 2017.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, R. S. Lieberman, J. D. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, J. Carstens, J. M. Russell, III, Local and Remote Planetary Wave Effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds in the Northern Hemisphere in 2014. AIM Science Team Meeting, Boulder, CO, November 2017.
Harvey, V. L., J. A. Knox, J. France, L. Gray, P. Hitchcock, J. McCormack, T. Sakazaki, Y. Tomikawa, and M. Fujiwara, Chapter 11 Update, SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project Workshop, Reading, United Kingdom, 23 October, 2017.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, R. S. Lieberman, J. D. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, J. Carstens, J. M. Russell, III, Planetary wave effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds during the Northern Hemisphere 2014 season. Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region, Kuhlungsborn, Germany, September 2017.
Harvey, V. L., Randall, C. E., J. Carstens, J. A. France, L. Hoffmann, S. M. Bailey, J. D. Lumpe, J. Yue, B. Thurairajah, D. E. Siskind, Y. Zhao, M. Taylor, and J. M. Russell III, Advertising a new gravity wave dataset from CIPS on AIM: Comparisons with AIRS, CEDAR Workshop, Keystone, Colorado, 22 June, 2017.
Pettit, J., J. France, V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, D. Kinnison, and D. Marsh, WACCM Studies at CU/LASP, CESM workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, 20 June, 2017.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, R. S. Lieberman, J. D. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, J. Carstens, J. M. Russell, III, Planetary wave effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds during the Northern Hemisphere 2014 season. AIM Science Team Meeting, Boulder, CO, 24-25 April 2017.
Randall, C. E., J. Carstins, J. A. France, V. L. Harvey, S. M. Bailey, J. D. Lumpe, J. Yue, B. Thurairajah, D. E. Siskind, Y. Zhao, M. J. Yaylor, J. M. Russell III, New AIM/CIPS Global Observations of Gravity Waves near 50-55 km. AIM Science Team Meeting, Boulder, CO, 24-25 April 2017.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, R. Lieberman, J. Lumpe, J. M. Russell III, and S. Bailey. CIPS observations of gravity waves and planetary-wave-induced variability in PMCs, LASP Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, 17 November 2016.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, CIPS Observations of Gravity Waves, Young Scientist Symposium on Atmospheric Research, Colorado State University, 4 November 2016.
Hackett, A., C. E. Randall, J. A. France, V. L. Harvey, On the Identification of Elevated Stratopause Events, Young Scientist Symposium on Atmospheric Research, Colorado State University, 4 November 2016.
Justin Carstens, S. Bailey, C. E. Randall, M. J. Alexander, J. A. France, B. Thurairajah, M. Taylor, D. Siskind, J. Russell, A Sensitivity Analysis of the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment to Gravity Wave Density Perturbations near the Stratopause, Observation and Analysis Opportunities Collaborating with the ICON and GOLD Missions. High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 27-28 September 2016.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, The 5-day wave as a trigger for early onset of PMCs, AIM Science Team Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, 20-23 June 2016.
Goncharenko, L. P., A. Coster, S. Zhang, V. L. Harvey, C. Randall, J. France, A. Zalizovsky, Is the Arctic stratosphere connected to the ionosphere over Antarctica?, CEDAR Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 23 June 2016.
Hackett, A. M., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, J. France, and P. Hitchcock, Elevated stratopause events and their effects on energetic particle precipitation, 6th international HEPPA-SOLARIS workshop, Helsinki, Finland, 13-17 June 2016.
J. Pettit, J. France, V. L. Harvey, C. Randall, E. Peck, D. Kinnison, and D. Marsh, WACCM Studies at CU/LASP, CESM Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, 21 June 2016.
France, J. A., Josh Pettit, Cora Randall, V. Lynn Harvey, Ethan Peck, Doug Kinnison, Dan Marsh, WACCM Studies at CU/LASP, Whole Atmosphere Working Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 9-10 February 2016.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, CIPS observations of the quasi 5 day planetary wave, ATOC Poster Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 13 November 2015.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, CIPS observations of the quasi 5 day planetary wave, AIM Science Team Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 27-29 October 2015.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, Interhemispheric Coupling and 5-day wave effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds during the Northern Hemisphere 2014 season, Young Scientists Symposium for Atmospheric Research, Fort Collins, CO, 9 October 2015.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, Interhemispheric Coupling and 5-day wave effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds during the Northern Hemisphere 2014 season, Layered Phenomena in the Mesopause Region, Boulder, CO 10-13 August 2015.
Randall, C. E., V. L. Harvey, J. A. France, SH 2014-2015 PMC Season, AIM Science Team Meeting, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2-4 June 2015.
France, J. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, Interhemispheric Coupling and 5-day wave effects on Polar Mesospheric Clouds during the Northern Hemisphere 2014 season, AIM Science Team Meeting, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2-4 June 2015.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, R. L. Collins, A. K. Smith, E. D. Peck, and X. Fang (2015), Mesospheric inversion layers in FR-WACCM. CESM Whole Atmosphere Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 17-18 February 2015.
Harvey, V. L., K. Greer, C. Randall, J. A. France, L. Holt, and R. Collins, Shape and Chemical Diagnostics of the Polar Vortices in WACCM, CESM Whole Atmosphere Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 17-18 February 2015.
Harvey, V. L., K. Greer, C. Randall, J. A. France, L. Holt, and R. Collins, Shape and Chemical Diagnostics of the Polar Vortices in WACCM, ISSI Meeting, Prague, 27 January 2015.
Harvey, V. L., K. Greer, C. Randall, J. A. France, L. Holt, and R. Collins, Shape and Chemical Diagnostics of the Polar Vortices in WACCM, American Meteorological Society 18th Middle Atmosphere Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2015.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, Anomalous Decline in Northern Hemisphere Polar Mesospheric Clouds during 2014, ATOC Poster Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 14 November 2014.
France, J. A., V. Harvey, C. Randall , R. Collins , A. Smith , E. Peck , X. Fang, PMC variability in the NH 2014 season and planetary wave activity, AIM Science Team Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 12-14 November 2014.
Holt, L. A., C. E. Randall, V. L. Harvey, J. A. France,J. M. Russell III,J. D. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, and M. E. Hervig, SH PMCs in 2014 linked to NH surface cold air outbreaks, AIM Science Team Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 12-14 November 2014.
Harvey, V. L., C. E. Randall, J. A. France, E. Peck, L. Holt, K. Greer, Middle Atmosphere WACCM Studies at CU, 19th Annual CESM Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, 17 June 2014.
Harvey, V. L, C. E. Randall, J. A. France, M. Brakebush, L. Holt, and E. Peck, WACCM Studies in the Upper Stratosphere and Lower Mesosphere, CESM Whole Atmosphere Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 11 February 2013.
France, J. A. and V. L. Harvey,A Climatology of the Polar Winter Stratopause in WACCM, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Student Poster Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 26 November 2012.
J. A. France, V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, A Climatology of Stratopause Temperature and Height in the Polar Vortex and Anticyclones, Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura Science Team Meeting, Pasadena, California, 1-3 October 2012.
J. A. France, V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, A Climatology of Stratopause Temperature and Height in the Polar Vortex and Anticyclones, Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Data Assimilation Workshop, Socorro, New Mexico, 11-13 June 2012.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, J. Gille, HIRDLS, MLS, and SABER observations of the stratopause, Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura Science Team Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 1 October 2010.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, Comparison of Stratopause and Mesopause Temperature and Height between Solar Maximum and Solar Minimum, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, SA44A-05, San Francisco, California, December 2009.
Randall, C. E., V. L. Harvey, D. E. Siskind, J. A. France, P. Bernath, C. Boone, K. Walker, NOx descent in the Arctic middle atmosphere in early 2009, 2nd International High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere (HEPPA) Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 8 October 2009.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, C. E. Randall, S. Pawson, D. Marsh, G. Manney, and E. E. Remsberg, WACCM Evaluation of the Stratopause Using Satellite Data and Meteorological Analyses, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2008.
France, J. A., V. L. Harvey, and C. E. Randall, Comparison of stratopause temperature and height in GEOS-5, WACCM, SABER, and MLS, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Student Poster Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 28 October 2008.
Fang, X., C. Randall, V. L. Harvey, M. Mills, D. Marsh, C. Jackman, J. A. France, L. Holt, and C. Bardeen, Simulations of medium energy electron precipitation in WACCM, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2007.
Maute, A., A. D. Richmond, J. A. France, C. St-Jean Leblanc, Empirical Model of High-Latitude Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Energy Transfer Based on Dynamic Explorer-2 Data, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2005.
Proposals Funded
Postdoc – NASA NNH16ZDA001N-HGIO (Errol J. Summerlin, , 202-358-1257) – The Polar Vortex in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere)
Period of Award 1/2017 – 12/2020
Total CU Budget $429,277
Postdoc - NASA Explorers (Elsayed Talaat, , 202-358-3804) - Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, PI Russell (Hampton University)
Period of Award 4/2003 – 9/2018
Total CU Budget $81,991,116
Graduate Student – NASA New Investigator Program (Ming Wei, , 202-358-0771) – The mesospheric polar vortex
Period of Award 8/2006 – 7/2009
Total CU Budget: $294,455