Career
Garvin arrived at the Goddard Space Flight Center since 1984 where he first served as a staff scientist developing remote sensing instrumentation and has been based there or at the nearby National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington District of Columbia since then His career has spanned disciplines as Earth system science, Mars Exploration, lunar exploration, Venus, asteroids, and the outer planets. He remains co-investigator on National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Mars Global Surveyor, Canada"s Radarsat, and European Space Agency"s Envisat missions.
Garvin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and attended Brown University graduating with a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science in 1978.
He earned his Masters of Science also in Computer Science from Stanford and returned to Brown where he earned his Masters of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in planetary geological sciences 1984.