Center for Environmental Science
A Cooperative Center operated by The University of Chicago
and Argonne National Laboratory

Barry M. Lesht

Argonne National Laboratory
Environmental Research Division  Bldg. 203
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, Illinois, 60439

(630) 252-4208
FAX:  (630) 252-2959
E-mail: bmlesht@anl.gov

EDUCATION

  • Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, B.A., Earth Sciences, 1971
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, M.A., Geophysical Sciences, 1973
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences, 1977
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, M.B.A. (with high honors), 1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • January 1995 to present, Section Head (Acting), Terrestrial Research Section,
    Environmental Research Division, Argonne National Laboratory

  • August 1993 to present:, Associate Director (50%), Environmental Research Division

  • October 1987 to present:, Group Leader, Aquatic Processes Group,
    Atmospheric Research Section, Environmental Research Division

  • March 1985 to present:, Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory

  • February 1979 to March 1985, Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory

  • February 1978 to February 1979,  National Research Council Resident Associate,
    Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories, NOAA

  • February 1977 to February 1978, Research Associate, Graduate School of
    Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Analysis of satellite remote sensing data for studies of aquatic and atmospheric processes.  Improving interpretation of radiosonde measurements of atmospheric state variables.  Application of combinatorial optimization and spatial analysis to the design and analysis of environmental sampling networks.  Experimental studies of marine and aquatic interfacial exchange processes, particularly those at the sediment water interface.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Meteorological Society
  • International Association for Great Lakes Research (Treasurer, 1989-1992, Secretary, 1993-1995)
  • International Association for Mathematical Geology
  • Sigma Xi

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Member, International Assoc for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Endowment Committee
  • Member, IAGLR Publications Committee & Technical Advisory committee
  • Member, Atmospheric Deposition Technical Coordinating Committee, USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO)
  • Member, Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study Science Review Panl, USEPA/GLNPO
  • Member, Research Advisory Committee, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program
  • Chairman, Lake Michigan Task Force, International Joint Commission (IJC) 1985-1992
  • Co-Chair, IJC Tributary Monitoring Workshop Steering Committee 1990-1991
  • Member, IJC Surveillance Subcommittee 1989-1991
  • Member, IJC Mass Balance Workshop Steering Committee 1989-1990
  • Coordinator, U.S. Department of Energy Space Initiative Technical Oversight Group (1990-1996)

SAMPLE OF AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Anderson-Everett Award for "Outstanding Continued Contributions to the Association"  International Association for Great Lakes Research, 1994.
  • Editor's Award for "Outstanding Support of the Peer-Review Process"  Intenational Association for Great Lakes Research, 1996.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Lesht, B.M.  QUANTIFICATION AND REDUCTION OF THE UNCERTAINTY IN MASS BALANCE MODELS BY MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS OF PRIOR DATA.  In:  DePinto, J. and Manno, J. (Eds).  "Reducing Uncertainty in Mass Balance Models for Toxics:  Lake Ontario Case Study."  Great Lakes Monograph No. 4, Great Lakes Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY,  pp 106-124, (1993)

  • Hawley, N. and B. M. Lesht.  DOES LOCAL RESUSPENSION MAINTAIN THE BENTHIC NEPHELOID LAYER IN SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN?  Journal of Sedimentary Research.  65A, 69-76 (1995)

  • Lesht, B. M.  AN EVALUATION OF ARM RADIOSONDE OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE.  In:  Proceedings of Ninth Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation,  27-31 March 1995, Charlotte, NC, American Meteorological Society, pp. 6-10.  (1995)

  • Parsons, J. and B. M. Lesht.  A STATISTICAL REPRESENTATION OF WIND EVENTS IN THE GREAT LAKES.  J. Great Lakes Res. 22(3), 789-794 (1996)

  • Gao, W. and B. M. Lesht.  MODEL INVERSION OF SATELLITE-MEASURED REFLECTANCES TO OBTAIN SURFACE BIOPHYSICAL AND BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF GRASSLAND.  Remote Sens. Env. 59:461-471 (1997).

  • Gao, W., R. L. Coulter, B. M. Lesht, J. Qiu, and M. L. Wesely.  ESTIMATING CLEAR-SKY REGIONAL SURFACE FLUXES IN THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT SITE WITH GROUND MEASUREMENTS AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS.  J. Appl. Meteor. 37:5-22 (1998).

  • Qiu, J., Gao, W. and B. M. Lesht.  INVERTING OPTICAL REFLECTANCE TO ESTIMATE SURFACE PROPERTIES OF VEGETATION CANOPIES.  Int. J. Remote Sens., 19:641-656 (1998).

  • Coulter, R. L., Klazura, G., Lesht, B. M., Martin, T. J., Shannon, J. D., Sisterson, D. L., and M. L. Wesely.  THE ARGONNE BOUNDARY LAYER EXPERIMENTS FACILITY: USING MINISODARS TO COMPLEMENT A WIND PROFILER NETWORK.  Meteorol. Atmosp. Phys. 71:53-59 (1999).

  • Richardson, S. J., M. E. Splitt, and B. M. Lesht.  ENHANCEMENT OF ARM SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS DURING THE FALL 1996 WATER VAPOR INTENSIVE OPERATIONS PERIOD.  J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 17(3):312-322 (2000).