{"id":77737,"date":"2026-04-20T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77737"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:23:15","slug":"featured-spotlight-jean-francois-smekens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-jean-francois-smekens\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Jean-Francois\u00a0Smekens"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW217485698 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\">APS assistant research professor\u00a0<\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\">Jean-Francois\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW217485698 BCX8\">Smekens<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\">\u00a0was selected to be a part of the NASA PREFIRE Science Team. The PREFIRE mission\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\">comprises<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\">\u00a0two small satellites equipped with spectrometers to measure the Earth\u2019s radiation, aiming to reveal the full spectrum of radiant energy over the Arctic and Antarctic regions.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW217485698 BCX8\">Smekens<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217485698 BCX8\">\u00a0will create a spectral library of natural materials relevant to polar regions, which will be used to improve quantitative radiation energy budget estimates.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected TrackedChange SCXW217485698 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-jean-francois-smekens\/\">APS assistant research professor\u00a0Jean-Francois\u00a0Smekens\u00a0was selected to be a part of the NASA PREFIRE Science Team. The PREFIRE mission\u00a0comprises\u00a0two small satellites equipped with spectrometers to measure the Earth\u2019s radiation, aiming to reveal the full spectrum of radiant energy over the Arctic and Antarctic regions.\u00a0Smekens\u00a0will create a spectral library of natural materials relevant to polar regions, which&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}