Bio
I serve at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as an image scientist. Prior to ORNL, I worked in the DC area for more than 15 years as a remote sensing subject matter expert working with a range of government and commercial sponsors in full-spectrum remote sensing research areas with an emphasis in spectral science applications. Prior to my work in DC, I worked for both the Naval Oceanographic Office and the Naval Research Laboratory (DC and Stennis Space Center, MS) with a focus on defense applications for hyperspectral imagery in the near-shore environment.
My interests and publications center around research and engineering in the use of space, airborne, and UAS remotely sensed imagery. My specific interests are in radiative transfer in the near-shore environment, spectral algorithm development, scalable and automated remote sensing solutions, and machine learning utilizing remotely sensed data. I have been invited and engaged in research and leadership roles in data collections and full-development-cycle programs resulting in deployed solutions for sponsors.
I previously served for 2+ years as the group leader for the remote sensing group at ORNL, leading 20+ researchers, technicians, engineers to successful career paths and research leadership. I am actively engaged with the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) as a past regional president, national-to-regional coordinator and multiple other regional officer positions. I have organized the regional Mid-South conference to bring together scientists and engineers engaged with ASPRS. I am actively engaged in mentoring students at the laboratory in my research and have over the past years had one summer graduate student each for a 10-week stint at the lab. I am an active reviewer for multiple journals. I was chosen by ORNL in 2019 as part of a team to receive the singular "Research Accomplishment" award.
As "remote sensing scientists" typically come from a range of disciplines, my trajectory at approaching remote sensing is through physics and computational methods as my past work and graduate work is from both Emory University (in physics) and the University of Southern Mississippi in coordination with Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, MS (in Scientific Computing).