Graeme Leslie Stephens FRS[4] is director of the center for climate sciences at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology[5] and professor of earth observation the University of Reading.

[6][7] Stephens was educated at the University of Melbourne in Australia where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics 1973 in followed by a PhD in meteorology in 1977.

[4] He provided leadership in designing and developing international satellite programs exemplified by his creation and leadership of the decade long CloudSat satellite mission[3] that is providing novel insights and understanding of the Earth's clouds, precipitation and their role in climate.

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