Curriculum Vitae

Martin Gade was born in Lüneburg, Germany, in 1964. In 1991, he joined the Remote Sensing group at the Institute of Oceanography of the University of Hamburg. He received his first degree (Dipl. Phys.) in physics from the University of Hamburg in 1992. In 1996, he received the doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Hamburg.

Dr. Gade's main research interest is directed towards air-sea interactions and coastal processes, and their remote sensing using active microwave sensors such as scatterometers and synthetic aperture radar (SAR). He has been actively involved in laboratory and field remote sensing experiments deploying optical, infrared, and microwave sensors, in their analyses, and in the theoretical interpretation of the results obtained.

In order to improve the understanding of radar signatures of marine surface films visible on SAR imagery, Dr. Gade has performed dedicated experiments in the wind-wave tank of the University of Hamburg, investigating the influence of monomolecular surface films (slicks) on fluxes of energy, momentum, and gas at the air-water interface. Later on, he expanded the focus of those experiments towards the effect of heavy artificial rain on the radar backscattering from a wind-roughened water surface. In addition to the laboratory experiments, Dr. Gade organized and participated in field experiments in the German Bight of the North Sea where artificial (quasi-) biogenic and anthropogenic surface films were deployed while radar backscatter measurements were conducted with the five-frequency/multipolarization scatterometer HELISCAT of the University of Hamburg. Along with the analyses of multiple SAR imagery of marine surface films in many coastal environments those field experiments formed the basis of Dr. Gade's pioneering research articles on the monitoring of marine oil pollution by spaceborne radar.

From the late 1990s on, Dr. Gade has organized and lead some improvements and remodelling of HELISCAT, allowing it to be deployed not only during surface film experiments, but also from a radar tower at the mouth of the river Elbe (2000) and during an Arctic Expedition of R/V Polarstern (2004). More recently, Dr. Gade has expanded his research interest towards the (radar) remote sensing of coastal phenomena and processes in general, e.g. exposed intertidal flats in the German Bight of the North Sea, sub-mesoscale eddies in the Mediterranean, Black and Red Seas, near-coastal gyres in the Mediterranean Sea, and marine oil pollution in Indonesian coastal waters.

In December 2000, Dr. Gade was visiting scientist at the Dept. of Physical Geography of the University of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2002, he was with the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. Furthermore, Dr. Gade has been invited as guest lecturer to various institutes, e.g. to the

• GKSS/HZG Research Center (from 1997),

• Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (1999),

• Catholic University Eichstädt-Ingolstadt, Eichstädt, Germany (2000),

• NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA (2002),

• Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany (2004),

• Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra (VA), Italy (2006),

• Institute of Baltic Sea Research, Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany (from 2008),

• Far-Eastern Branch of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB-POI RAS), Vladivostok, Russia (2013),

• Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST), Kalkara, Malta (2014),

• University of Maribor, Slovenia (2015),

• Ryan Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland (2015),

• University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia, Bulgaria (2016),

• Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China (2016),

• Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES), Cesis, Latvia (2016).

Dr. Gade has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books, and more than 100 papers elsewhere (e.g. in conference proceedings). So far, he has co-edited three books published by Springer and focussing on Marine Surface Films and on Remote Sensing of the European Seas and African Seas.

Dr. Gade has been frequent reviewer of scientific manuscripts for various international journals, e.g.

• Advances in Space Research
• Coastal Engineering
• Deep Sea Research
• EARSeL eProceedings
• Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
• Geophysical Research Letters
• IEE Proceedings of Radar, Sonar and Navigation,
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
• IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• International Journal of Remote Sensing
• International Journal of Navigation and Observation
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• Journal of Coastal Conservation
• Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans
• Journal of Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
• Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Marine Geodesy
• Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing of the Environment,

and of research proposals and projects for several research funding organisations, e.g.

• European Commission

• European Cooperation in Science and Technology

• Norges forskningsrad

• INTAS

• Swedish National Space Board.

He is member of

• ADFC

• Förderverein Berliner Schloss

• FC St. Pauli

• YCG

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