Dr. Thomas Woods is a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He obtained his BS in Physics in 1981 from Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) and his PhD in Physics in 1985 from the Johns Hopkins University. His research is focused primarily on the solar ultraviolet irradiance and its effects on Earth's atmosphere, climate change, and space weather. Dr. Woods is involved with several NASA and NOAA satellite programs and is an AGU Fellow. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the TIMED SEE, SDO EVE, and TSIS-1 satellite instrument projects and is also PI of the MinXSS CubeSat missions.
