David Bekaert, Ph.D.
October 24, 2024
David Bekaert doesn’t much like the idea of a box. “It’s funny, because people always get boxed: Either you’re an engineer or you’re a scientist,” ...
Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
December 7, 2023
Zhong Lu has a story about Syun-Ichi Akasofu, the groundbreaking aurora scientist and former director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. It’s a ...
Gareth Funning, Ph.D.
July 1, 2023
California is a good place for a postdoctoral seismologist to work. It is one of the nation’s most seismically active states, after all. It wasn’t ...
Forrest Williams, PhD.
December 14, 2022
Forrest Williams is a newly minted Ph.D., having successfully defended his thesis near the end of 2022 at New Zealand’s Massey University, where his focus ...
Rowena Lohman, PhD
July 28, 2022
Sometime back in the early 2000s, Rowena Lohman attended an Alaska Satellite Facility Working Group meeting as a substitute for someone who couldn’t make it ...
Simon Zwieback, PhD
April 21, 2022
Simon Zwieback’s office has little space in which to maneuver on this particular day in the West Ridge Research Building at the University of Alaska ...
Matthew Pritchard, PhD
January 26, 2022
For Matthew Pritchard, volcanoes are where the action is. The more of them he can study, the happier he is. The Alaska Satellite Facility at ...
Ian Joughin, PhD
October 14, 2021
Ian Joughin is quite familiar with the Alaska Satellite Facility. That familiarity began during his time in graduate school and continued at the Jet Propulsion ...
Howard Zebker, PhD
July 14, 2021
If you want an idea of how long Howard Zebker has been immersed professionally with satellites and satellite data, just look up the launch date ...
Josef Kellndorfer, PhD
April 30, 2021
Josef Kellndorfer heartily remembers receiving computer hard drives in the mail containing the data he needed for his research in the 1990s. Those hard drives ...
Paul Rosen, PhD
January 28, 2021
Dr. Paul Rosen is Project Scientist for the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission. NISAR will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic land surfaces, and ice masses, providing ...
Bernd Scheuchl, PhD
August 13, 2020
Bernd Scheuchl brings more than 25 years of experience using synthetic aperture radar remote sensing data in both industry and academia to his role as ...
Dr. Nettie La Belle-Hamer
February 5, 2020
As Director of ASF, Dr. Nettie La Belle-Hamer’s mission is to support and mentor her team of driven professionals as leaders in remote sensing and ...
Franz Meyer, PhD
October 18, 2019
As ASF Chief Scientist, Franz J. Meyer leverages almost two decades of remote sensing research experience to act as the interface between ASF and the ...