JEFF DERRY: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jeff Derry has over 20 years’ experience planning, managing, and executing complex scientific research projects to support industry needs, government programs and academic research throughout the world.  His specializations include hydrology, meteorology, air quality monitoring, project management, and field operations logistics in remote settings including the North Slope of Alaska, Greenland, Antarctica, and offshore Kazakhstan.  

Jeff earned a M.S. in Watershed Science from Colorado State University with an emphasis in snow hydrology.  Thesis and post graduate research focused on regional patterns of snow water equivalent, and physiographic influences on snowpack variability, in the Colorado River Basin.

In Antarctica, Jeff held positions such as oceanic research associate, fuels supervisor, and Manager of Marble Point - a field camp located at the base of environmentally fragile McMurdo Dry Valleys.  In Greenland, Jeff oversaw and conducted multidisciplinary scientific investigations at the summit of the Greenland icecap, a location crucial to understanding atmospheric and snowpack processes and the advancement of climate change research.  

For five years Jeff worked for a private consultant out of Fairbanks, Alaska where virtually all projects were partnerships with University Alaska Fairbanks to conduct applied research in the Arctic.  Professional focus was towards installing and maintaining meteorological stations, collecting water quality and discharge data, supervising snow survey campaigns and understanding snow distributions at multiple scales throughout the North Slope, data interpretation, and providing data to end users on a real-time basis.  

Working for Golder Associates in Fort Collins, CO, Jeff provided technical and management expertise to domestic and international air quality and meteorological monitoring programs. He was Operations Manager for deployment and operation of a state-of-the science offshore ambient air quality monitoring station on D-Island in the North Caspian Sea.  Email:   jderry@snowstudies.org