Daniel Ziskin, Associate Editor for All Things Green

Daniel Ziskin was born and raised in southern New Jersey. He received a PhD in physics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993. The title of his dissertation was "Clouds as a Feedback Mechanism on the Earth's Climate in the Tropical Pacific."

He worked at the NASA Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for five years as a specialist in supporting Earth science satellite data. During those years he played ultimate frisbee with Paul Racette from Wichita, KS. From 1998 until 2006 Daniel served as the data manager and Co-Investigator for the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument, which flies aboard the NASA Terra platform. The MOPITT data processing team was housed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. In 2008, Daniel began work at NOAA on the Nighttime Lights project at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). He has been a supporter of Earthzine from near its inception.

Daniel has a keen interest in setting the world on a course of using drastically less irreplaceable natural resources. His hobbies include serving on the board of directors of "save-the-world" type non-profits and playing bridge.