Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Washington State University, 2013-current
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Idaho, 2012-2013
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Idaho, 2005-2012
Interim Director for Idaho EPSCoR/IDeA, 2009-2010
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Idaho, 2001-2005
Research Scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997-2001
Postdoctoral Fellow, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, 1995
Electro-optical engineer, Quantic Industries, San Carlos, CA, 1984-1987
Awards
Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award, University of Idaho Office of Research, 2012
President’s Mid-Career Award, University of Idaho President’s Office, 2012
Research Interests
Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
Infrared Spectroscopy
Polar Meteorology
Regional Climate Change
Teaching
Remote Sensing
Radiative Transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Publications
Bennartz, R., M.D. Shupe, D.D. Turner, V.P. Walden, K. Steffen, *C.J. Cox, M.S. Kulie, N.B. Miller and C. Pettersen, 2013: July 2012 Greenland melt extent enhanced by low-level liquid clouds, Nature, 496, 83-86, doi: 10.1038/nature12002.
Shupe, M.D., D.D. Turner, V.P. Walden, R. Bennartz, M.P. Cadeddu, B.B. Castellani, *C.J. Cox, D.R. Hudak, M.S. Kulie, N.B. Miller, R.R. Neely III, and W.D. Neff, 2013: High and Dry: New observations of tropospheric and cloud properties above the Greenland Ice Sheet, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 94, 169-186, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00249.1.
*Cox, C.J., V.P. Walden, and P.M. Rowe, 2012: A comparison of the atmospheric conditions at Eureka, Canada and Barrow, Alaska (2006-2008), J. Geophys. Res., 117, D12204, doi: 10.1029/2011JD017164.
Walden, V.P., R.L. Tanamachi, P.M. Rowe, H.E. Revercomb, D.C. Tobin, and S.A. Ackerman, 2010: Improvements in the data quality of the Interferometric Monitor of Greenhouse Gases, Appl. Opt., 49, 520-528.
Walden, V. P., *W. L. Roth, R. S. Stone, and B. Halter, 2006: Radiometric validation of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder over the Antarctic Plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D09S03, doi:10.1029/2005JD006357.