Contact List

Faculty
Person	Title	Phone	Email
Matthias Braun	Associate Professor	(907) 474-1522	mabra [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Ken Dean	Research Professor	(907) 474-7364	ken [dot] dean [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Jon Dehn	Research Associate Professor	(907) 474-6499	jdehn [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Hajo Eicken	Professor	(907) 474-7280	heicken [at] alaska [dot] edu
Robert Herrick	Research Associate Professor	(907) 474-6445	rherrick [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Pavel Izbekov	Post Doctoral Fellow	(907) 474-5269	pavel [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Martin Jeffries	Research Professor	(907) 474-5257	mojeffries [at] alaska [dot] edu
Andrew Mahoney	Research Assistant Professor	(907) 474-5382	Mahoney [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Franz Meyer	Research Assistant Professor	(907) 474-7767	fjmeyer [at] alaska [dot] edu
Anupma Prakash	Professor	(907) 474-1897	prakash [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Christian Petrich	Research Associate Academic	(907) 474-6832	chris [dot] petrich [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Buck Sharpton			buck [dot] sharpton [at] alaska [dot] edu
Peter Webley	Research Assistant Professor	(907) 474-1542	pwebley [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Staff
Person	Title	Phone	Email
Kim Morris	Research Scientist	(907) 474-7799	kim [dot] morris [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Hyunjin Drukenmiller	Research Technician	(907) 474-1159
Scott Macfarlane	System Administrator	(907) 474-1521	scott [dot] macfarlane [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Mette Kaufman	Research Technician	(907) 474-5431	kaufman [at] sof [dot] uaf [dot] edu

 

• Students - current listing to come

Faculty

Matthias Braun
Associate Professor
mabra [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-1522
WRRB 108D

 

Ken Dean
Research Professor
ken [dot] dean [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-7364
WRRB 108H

 

Jon Dehn
Research Assoc Professor
jdehn [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-6499
WRRB 108G

Hajo Eicken
Professor
heicken [at] alaska [dot] edu
907-474-7280

 

 

Robert Herrick
Research Assoc Professor
rherrick [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-6445
WRRB 108I
Additional information

 

Pavel Izbekov
pavel [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-5269

 

 

Martin Jeffries
Research Professor
mojeffries [at] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-5257
WRRB 104C

 

Associated Faculty

Don Atwood
Chief Scientist ASF
dkatwood [at] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-7380
Elvey 206

Cathy Cahill
Professor Atm./Chemistry
cfcahill [at] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-6905
Akasofu 303

Rudy Gens
Remote Sensing Scientist ASF
rgens [at] alaska [dot] edu
(907) 474-7621

   
   

Researcher and Associated Staff

Hyunjin Druckenmiller 

Research Technician
(907) 474-1159
WRRB 104

 

 

 

 

 

Mette Kaufman
Research Technician
(907) 474-5431
WRRB 104
kaufman [at] sfos [dot] uaf [dot] edu

Mette is primarily a member of the sea ice group and manages the Geophysical Institute’s Snow, Ice, and Permafrost lab. She is the main contact for scheduling the use of the lab’s cold rooms and instrumentation. Mette is the field logistics coordinator for the sea ice group and is involved in reviewing and editing materials in preparation for publication. Her efforts also support remote sensing analysis of sea ice, glaciers and snow.

Scott Macfarlane
System Administrator
(907) 474-1521
WRRB 108
scott [dot] macfarlane [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu

Scott maintaints the computer systems for the volcano section of the remote sensing group. He also develops and maintains volcano monitoring tools, databases and displays in the volcano monitoring room.  Scott also assists remote sensing faculty, staff and students with computer and software problems.

Kim Morris
Research Scientist
WRRB 104A 
(907) 474-7799
kim [dot] morris [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu

Kim Morris is primarily associated with the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Group and studies snow and lake and river ice. She is the project scientist and coordinator for the Alaska Lake Ice and Snow Observatory Network (ALISON) and has written the Ice Seasonality Protocol for the GLOBE Seasons and Biomes Project. She has used remotely sensed data to study:
(1) sea ice conditions in the Beaufort Sea (Arctic) and the Ross, Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas (Antarctic) (AVHRR and ERS-1);
(2) the evolution of the ice cover on lakes on the North Slope (Alaska), (ERS-1 and RADARSAT-1); and
(3) the flooding of coastal sea ice by spring river runoff along the Beaufort Sea Coast (Alaska), (ERS-1 & 2 and RADARSAT-1)."

Lovro Valcic
Research Technician
Works remotely/Scotland
lovro [at] alaska [dot] edu

Lovro is a research programmer that designed and helped implement much of the web-based interface that we use for volcano monitoring. He is now works part time, remotely to assist Scott in maintaining computing systems, servers and volcano monitoring tools.

Associated Staff

Broderson, Dayne
(GINA) System Analyst
(907) 474-6182
WRRB 111
dayne [at] alaska [dot] edu

Engle, Kevin
(GINA) Research Program
Ground Station Engineer
(907) 474-5569
WRRB 111
kevin [at] gina [dot] alaska [dot] edu

George, Nathan
Cen. Res. Serv. Fiscal Manager
(907) 474-2008
WRRB 108
nathan [dot] george [at] alaska [dot] edu

Retired and Emeritus Faculty and staff

Shusun Li
(Emeritus/Retired)

Professor Emeritusli [dot] shusun [at] gmail [dot] com
907-474-7676
WRRB 108F

Shusun Li studied deformation, electromagnetic interactions on the earth’s surface and SAR processing techniques.  He applied these techniques to the study of snow, ice, aufeis, ground subsidence and swelling in the Arctic, Antarctic and China.

Dr. William Stringer
Physics (Emeritus)

Bill studied Auroral Physics and Remote Sensing while he worked at the Geophysical Institute. He was employed for 30 years at the G.I., from 1967-1997. He was one of the organizers of the Remote Sensing Group at the Geophysical Institute.

John Miller
Engineer (Emeritus)

John worked at the Geophysical Institute from 1958 -1993. During his employment at the Geophysical Institute John researched fields from aerospace applications of remote-sensing technology to resource management and assessment of geophysical hazards in the Arctic and Subarctic. He was instrumental in the development and use of real-time satellite data starting with Landsat. John was part of the team that started the Alaska SAR Facility, (later renamed the Alaska Satellite Facility). He was also instrumental in getting the first AVHRR real-time receiving station that later became the back bone for satellite-based analysis for the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

Thomas George
(Retired)
Tom was one of the original members of the Remote Sensing Group, focusing on applied uses of remote sensing to land resources. He worked at the Geophysical Institute from 1973 – 2001. Initially, he was involved in research projects with satellite data, and through time developed airborne data collection capabilities using his own aircraft in support of remote sensing research.  In the early years, he supported the GeoData Center, and later was part of the team which started the Alaska SAR Facility, (later renamed the Alaska Satellite Facility) where he served as Data Manager and in Project Planning and Development.

Shari George
Harold Garbiel and later Shari George developed and managed the first campus-wide image processing laboratories, ADVAL (Alaska Data Visualization and Analysis Laboratory) became UAF’s primary processing system and later housed with the Remote Sen
sing Group at the Geophysical Institute in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Harold now manages an image processing system at the University of Hawaii.  Shari is now at the Cooperative Extension Service, UAF.

Joanne Groves
Joanne was a data analyst that processed and analyzed satellite data in support of sea ice research on the Outer Continental Shelf project.  She also processed SAR data for ASF and analyzed AVHRR and GOES data for AVO.

Kristina Ahlnaes
Kristina was a data analyst that processed and analyzed satellite data investigating sea ice, lake ice, polynas, ocean currents, volcanic eruptions and the Exxon-Valdez oil spill.

Students

This page is actively being worked on 12/22/2010
See the student listsings under the Student section.
See a gallery of student images.

Current Students	Degree Sought	Telephone / Location	Email
Balazs,  Matthew	MS	1164 / 101	mbalazs [at] alaska [dot] edu (mbalazs [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Denny, Casey	MS	1164 / 101	cldenny [at] alaska [dot] edu (cldenny [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Druckenmiller, Matthew	PhD	1156 / 104	mldruckenmiller [at] alaska [dot] edu (mldruckenmiller [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Ekstrand, Angela	MS	7490 / 106	alekstrand [at] alaska [dot] edu (alekstrand [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Engram, Melanie	MS		melanie [dot] engram [at] alaska [dot] edu (melanie [dot] engram [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Floyd, Angelica	MS	1164 / 101	angelica [dot] floyd [at] alaska [dot] edu (angelica [dot] floyd [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Gong, Wenyu	PhD	7490 / 106	gwenyu [at] alaska [dot] edu (gwenyu [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Harbeck, Jeremy	MS		jharbeck [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (jharbeck [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu)
Jones, Josh	MS	5648 / 104
Hickman, Pete	MS	1567 / 111	pjhickman [at] alaska [dot] edu (pjhickman [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Koeber, Steven	MS	1152 / 002	sdkoeber [at] alaska [dot] edu
Levy, Judith	non	1164 / 101	jlevy3 [at] alaska [dot] edu (jlevy3 [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Lopez, Taryn	PhD	5713 / IARC	tlopez [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (tlopez [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu)
Lovick, Joe	PHD	Offsite	joh3 [at] anatexis [dot] com
McAplin, David	PhD	5648 / 104	dbmcalpin [at] alaska [dot] net (dbmcalpin [at] alaska [dot] net)
Panda, Santosh	PhD	5648 / 104	skpanda [at] alaska [dot] edu (skpanda [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Perreault, John	PhD	1152 / 002	jmperreault [at] alaska [dot] edu (jmperreault [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Rahilly, Kristin	PhD		kerahilly [at] alaska [dot] edu (kerahilly [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Rinkliff, Peter	PhD	(907) 978-1563 / GI	prinkleff [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (prinkleff [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu)
Roon, David	MS		daroon [at] alaska [dot] edu (daroon [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Schaefer, Katherine	MS	/ 106	keschaefer [at] alaska [dot] edu (keschaefer [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Steensen, Torge	PhD	6032 / 108	tsteensen [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
Stolarski, Jason	PhD	7264 /	jstolars [at] alaska [dot] edu (jstolars [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Tauzer, Lila	MS	6839 / 106	lmtauzer [at] alaska [dot] edu (lmtauzer [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Tillapaugh, Meghan	MS		mtillapa [at] alaska [dot] edu (mtillapa [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Trochim, Erin	PhD	7490 / 106	edtrochim [at] alaska [dot] edu (edtrochim [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Wilson, Rayjan			rmwilson2 [at] alaska [dot] edu (rmwilson2 [at] alaska [dot] edu)
Worden, Christine	MS	6839 / 106	akworden [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (akworden [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu)
Miller, Summer	MS	5618 /	summer [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (summer [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu)

Former Students

Former Students	Degree at UAF	Post Graduation Activities
Berthelote, Antony	MS	PhD Univ. Montana
Calif, Fred	PhD	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Chapelow, John	PhD	Saga, Inc.
Gleason, Abigail	MS	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Greene, Jeff	MS	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hansen, Sharon	MS	Geophysical Institute, UAF
Harbeck, Jeremy	MS	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Hecker, Jena	MS	Central Intelligence Agency
Hesson, Katie	MS	Anchorage Museum
Kearney, Courtney	MS	Univ. Brisol PHD, Naval Res. Lab.
Kirkham, Cindy	MS	URS Coproration, Anchorage.
Ooman, Thomas	MSc	Faculty Michigan Inst. Of Technology
Papp, Ken	MS	Ak. Geol. and Geophy. Survey
Papp, Kristin	MS	British Petroleum Oil
Patrick, Matt	MS	UH PHD, USGS, Hawaii Volcano Obser.
Puchrik, Rachel	MS	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Searcy, Craig	PhD	National Weather Service
Smith, Steve	MS	National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Steffke, Andrea	MS	UH PhD & Post Doc
Sudipta, Sarkar	MS	Faculty, Univ. Southampton UK.
Wyatt, Chris	MS	Faculty Univ. of AK. Fairbanks