Howard E. Motteler

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Playing for Ali Ryerson's jazz flute master class, summer 2005.

I am retired as of December 2024, and doing mostly music again, as a hobby. I worked for 25 years as associate research scientist at the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory, a part of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Before that I was associate professor at the UMBC Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

I worked in the area of scientific computation and applications, including instrument modeling and calibration, passive infrared and microwave sounding, atmospheric radiative transfer calculations, and parallel and distributed processing. My CV has a list of publications, software, and courses taught. I've broken out pages from the CV for software, with links to GitHub, and for teaching, with course listings and web pages.

I don't do social media, and my life goes more easily for it. But in the modern world it seems you need some sort of web presence, so this is it, for me. I've had this rather basic page up, more or less as is, for 30 years now; initially mainly for links to the courses I was teaching, and now for any current projects.

The CV and related info above are not quite up to date, but I'm working on it. I should have more up shortly. In the meantime, here are some recent sessions with our core trio, piano, bass, and drums, and various guest horns. I'm playing drums. These are dumps of the whole session, taken from the drum mics, with lots of chatter; it's really just to help us work on things.