Jamey Anderson
BS, Geography
5 years experience with GIS and remote sensing analysis, field data collection/management, and Landsat image processing and interpretation with a focus on vegetation mapping, fire susceptibility modeling and multispectral object-oriented image classification.
Phone: 906.487.2914
Michael Billmire
MS, Natural Resources, BA, Biology
Research Scientist with interest/experience in the development of GIS-based products for wetland/forest management, modeling carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires, integrating classification methods for improved distinction among specific crop types, and wetland and forest field data collection.
Phone: 734.913.6853
William Buller
MS, Engineering Physics
Senior scientist with 15 years experience in the fields of signal processing, sensor characterization, performance prediction and machine inference.
Phone: 734.913.6867
Richard Dobson
BS, Earth Science
Research Associate with an interest in using GIS and remote sensing to solve environmental and geological issues. Field experience includes the use of ASD Spectroradiometer, groundwater monitoring wells and water quality measuring devices.
Phone: 734.913.6872
K. Arthur Endsley
BS, Geophysics
Geophysicist with experience in subsurface surveys, waveform processing, geospatial analysis, remote sensing and web development; interested in applying geophysics to a wide variety of field investigations as well as building analytical models of physical processes.
Joseph Garbarino
MS, Computer Science, BS Computer Science and Mathematics
Nearly 25 years working with computers in all aspects, and applying those computers to scientific problems, with emphasis on sensor technology and image exploitation. Algorithm and GUI development. Operating systems expertise, particularly Unix/Linux, including administration.
Phone: 734.913.6863
Benjamin Hart
BS, Electrical Engineering
Recent Michigan Tech graduate interested in applying embedded sensors to remote sensing problems.
Phone: 734.913.6887
Charles Hatt
MS, Biomedical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering
5 years of experience in environmental remote sensing algorithms, GIS software programming, environmental instrumentation design, and microfabrication design.
Phone: 734.913.6874
Liza Jenkins
MS and BS, Natural Resource Management
Analyst with specific expertise in field data collection in various environments including remote areas (Bering Glacier and North Slope, Alaska), web portal design, implementation, and maintenance, environmental data analysis, and creation of spatial data analysis models.
Phone: 734.913.6869
Eric Keefauver
MA and BS, Geography
10 years plus working with geographic information systems in multiple disciplinary environments ranging from strategic retail deployment to environmental remediation efforts. Most recent emphasis; a specialization in developing Internet GIS applications.
Phone: 734.913.6862 |
Benjamin Koziol
MS, Natural Resource Ecology and Management
Ecoinformatics Research Scientist with interests in spatial statistics, environmental process and assessment models, and dynamic decision support systems.
Phone: 802.392.4522
Helen Kourous-Harrigan
MS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Engineering Physics, BS, Electrical Engineering
12 years experience in optical signal processing and non-contact diagnostics, machine vision & image processing, and EM phenomenology. Interest in applications of GIS, astronomy, neuroscience, and AI.
Phone: 734.913.6851
Chuck Olson
Ph.D., Forestry - Resource Inventory
Chuck is a registered forester (MI) and a certified photogrammetrist with more than 50 years experience, both civilian and military, in the interpretation and analysis of all types of remotely sensed imagery, and 40 years experience teaching remote sensing and GIS.
Richard Powell, GISP
MS, Geographic Information Systems, BS, Geography
Geospatial Analyst with a focus in GIS and Remote Sensing data integration and the design and development of GIS–based decision support systems for environmental assessment, transportation planning and emergency management applications.
Phone: 734.913.6861
Michael Sayers
MS, Geographic Information Systems, BS, Geography
Analyst interested in high resolution hyperspectral remote sensing of Great Lakes wetlands, integrating GIS, remote sensing and statistical programming software for image processing, general geospatial programming solutions, and spectral signature field data collection and processing.
Phone 734.913.6852
Luke Spaete
MS, Forestry, BA, Natural Resource Management
Geospatial Analyst with a focus on boreal fire characterization using remote sensing, imaging radar processing and interpretation, and GIS/remote sensing integration.
John Valenzuela
Ph.D., Applied Physics
Area of expertise is penalized-likelihood estimation for image reconstruction. Additional research interests are: (1) information-theoretic approaches to electro-optic sensor design, and (2) statistical optics.
Brian White
BS, Computer Science
15 years plus as a software engineer and systems administrator. Programming experience include C, C++, Fortran, Python, ASP.NET, and various other languages and has maintained various flavors of Windows and Unix/Linux systems.
Phone: 734.913.6864
Michelle Wienert
BS, Environmental Studies and Natural Resource Management
10 years experience with GIS analysis, field data collection with a focus on water quality and terrestrial environments, outreach and web design, international conference management, workshop, focus group, and technical advisory group coordination, and database management.
Phone: 734.913.6870
Brian Wilson
MS, Biomedical Engineering, MSE Electrical Engineering, BSE Electrical Engineering
Analyst with five years experience in radar communications, signal and image processing, and RF experiment design and implementation. Academic experience in computer architecture and microprocessor design.
Phone: 734.913.6875 |
