Laura Bourgeau-Chavez — Research Scientist
Adjunct Assistant Professor, The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, BS and MS, Natural Resources
Over 20 years experience in the application of remote sensing to characterize and measure landscape ecosystems.  Her work has focused on SAR and the fusion of SAR and Multispectral data for mapping and monitoring wetlands and monitoring soil moisture for fire danger prediction in boreal regions.
Phone: 734.913.6873

Tyler Erickson — Research Scientist
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Geography / Environmental Engineering
10 years of experience in the application of geo-statistical methods to environmental processes. Extensive experience in handling and processing of very large databases to enable/develop GIS tools for decision alternatives.
Phone: 734.913.6846

Nancy French — Senior Research Scientist
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Ph.D., Natural Resources
Over 20 years of experience on the use of remote sensing to ecology and vegetation. Her work has involved studying SAR, MS, and HS image data to characterize spatial and temporal patterns of fire and its impact on carbon cycling.
Phone: 734.913.6844

Jessica McCarty
Ph.D., Geography
10 years of experience in the application of GIS and remote sensing for natural resource management and planning, land cover and land use change, regional fire and burned area mapping, and quantifying carbon and other emissions related to air quality from vegetative biomass burning with a current research focus on modeling spread of fire across landscapes, with an emphasis on the cropland-wildland-urban interface in North America and the Russian Federation.

R. Chris Owen — Research Scientist
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering
6 years of experience in atmospheric transport modeling, inverse modeling, and field measurements of atmospheric pollutants. His work has focused on characterizing the transport and chemical transformation of atmospheric pollutants on the meso- and synoptic scales and the regional climate impacts of anthropogenic and biogenic aerosol emissions.
Phone: 734.913.6888

Christopher Roussi — Senior Research Scientist / Engineer
MS, Electrical Engineering
25 years of experience in SAR signal processing, target recognition, design of instrumentation radars and real-time signal processors for radar fingerprinting.
Phone: 734.913.6843

Mark Stuff — Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D., Statistics
Over 20 years of applied mathematics and statistics to various remote sensing problems, most notably in focusing moving objects in SAR data that are undergoing non-trivial motions.
Phone: 734.913.6847

Brian Thelen — Senior Research Scientist
Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Statistics and Probability
25 years of experience in statistical image and signal processing for conventional/unconventional imaging systems and in algorithmic solutions for inverse problems.  Extensive experience in application and implementation of cutting-edge statistical and mathematical methodologies for inverting and exploiting data collected from sensing systems.
Phone: 734.913.6845

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

Gordon Garwood
MSE, Marine Environmental Engineering, BSE, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Research Engineer with expertise in experimental design (hardware and software), environmental remote sensing, field data collection planning and implementation, and use of SAR data in development of decision support systems.  Specialize in applications including remote sensing, GIS, hydrodynamics, and environmental processes.
Phone: 734.913.6883

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, CMS
Ph.D. Pre-candidate, MS and BS, Natural Resource Management
7 years of experience in satellite remote sensing and spatial data analysis. Research interests include the fusion of electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar data to investigate natural resource issues. Previous remote sensing applications include tundra lake characterization, wetland mapping, exotic species inventory, fire and emissions tracking, and glacier monitoring.
Phone: 734.913.6869

Nate Jessee
BS, Earth Science
Assistant Research Scientist focused in GIS and remote sensing applications of the Great Lakes watersheds. Water quality issues of interest include open lake water quality, sediment transport in coastal areas, watershed analysis and stream flow dynamics.   
Phone: 734.913.6854

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

Joel LeBlanc
Ph.D. Candidate, Statistical Signal Processing
10 years of experience in statistical signal processing.  Research interests include information theoretic approaches to inverse imaging, and computational techniques for solving large inverse problems.
Phone: 734.913.6889

Mary E Miller
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, MS Imaging Science, BA Physics
Primary research interest is utilizing remotely derived image data in physically based environmental models.  Strong interest in fire science especially fire effects and mitigation.  Recent projects include the development of a physical model of post-fire dry ravel, reducing noise in LiDAR waveforms for determining forest biometrics and prioritizing fuel reduction treatments.
Phone: 734.994.7221

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

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.
734.913.6868

Lin van Nieuwstadt
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Senior research scientist with 20 years experience in remote sensing hardware, microwave circuitry, and system engineering.  Research interests microwave breast cancer imaging and remote sensing systems development.
734.994.7224

Adam Webb
MS, Physics, BS, Electrical Engineering
Research Scientist/Engineer with experience in physics based modeling, electromagnetic analysis, and signal and image processing techniques with applications in remote sensing and imaging systems.
734.994.7235

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
Over 13 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