Jeff Dozier

Jeff Dozier was an American snow hydrologist, environmental scientist, researcher and academic. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dozier's research and teaching focused on snow science, Earth system science, radiative transfer in snow, remote sensing and information systems, image processing, and terrain analysis.

Dozier was a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Distinguished Scientist in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the NASA/Department of Interior William T. Pecora Award and of the NASA Public Service Medal. In 2009, he was awarded the Jim Gray Award from Microsoft. He helped explain optical properties of snow to animators of the film ''Frozen'', which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He led six expeditions to the Hindu Kush range in Afghanistan, where he made a dozen first ascents, and had a climbing destination, Dozier Dome, in Yosemite National Park named after him. Provided by Wikipedia