Instructors

Core Workshop Team

• Prof. L. Monika Moskal Professor specializing in Remote Sensing at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), within the College of the Environment. She serves as Director of the Precision Forestry Cooperative (PFC), and Director of the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory (RSGAL). To learn more about Prof. Moskal in a less formal format watch my recent SEFS Seminars Talk.
• Prof. Guang Zheng Professor of Remote Sensing at the International Institute for Earth System Science (ESSI) of Nanjing University, he graduate from UW (RSGAL/Dr. Moskal) in 2011.
• Prof. Akira Kato – Professor of Forest Remote Sensing at Graduate School of Horticulture (& affiliated with Center for Environmental Remote Sensing), Chiba University, Japan. He graduated from UW (RSGAL/Dr. Moskal) in 2008.
• Lindsey Skidmore, a student in Dr. Moskal’s RSGAL lab, will serve as an assistant for the workshop.
• Yelyzaveta (Yely) Ismatullayeva, a graduate student in Dr. Moskal’s RSGAL lab, will serve as an assistant for the workshop.
• Maureen Duane, PFC research coordinator, is providing organization and coordination for the workshop.

Guest Speakers

• Dr. Meghan Halabisky (or collaborator) landscape ecologist, conservation biologist, and remote sensing scientist with a background in GISciences, environmental policy, and conservation management. Her research interests lie in understanding historic and future changes to ecosystem dynamics  across spatial scales through the development, integration and application of high-resolution remote sensing tools. Meghan got her dual MSc degree in SEFS and Evans School of Public Policy and Governance (Dr. Craig Thomas), and her PhD in SEFS with Dr. Moskal.
• Prof. Greg Ettl (or associate) is a forest ecologist who studies, broadly, the impacts of harvesting on forest ecosystems, and the response of forests to climatic change. He works to design harvest practices which are worthwhile to the harvester, enhance wildlife habitat, and help to restore historic forest conditions. His current research focuses on forest management, the delivery of ecosystem services in the Pacific Northwest, and through his graduate students’ work in Ghana, and Venezuela. He is Director of the Center for Sustainable Forestry at the Pack Forest, UW’s 4,300-acre experimental forest.
• Prof. Dan Brown, as director of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Dan plays a vital role in guiding the School’s academic growth and developing new initiatives, providing leadership and management of its programs, centers, and research grants, allocating its revenues in a manner that supports its mission, and enhancing its sizable and growing endowment. In addition, he also sits on the Natural Resources Board of Washington State, which oversees the management of state lands. Dan recently served as interim dean for the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, where he was also a professor in the fields of conservation ecology and environmental informatics. His specific research interests focus on land use change and its effects on ecosystems and human vulnerability. His work connects a computer-based simulation of land-use-change processes with GIS and remote sensing based data on historical patterns of landscape change and social surveys. Dan is the Corkery Family Environmental and Forest Sciences Director’s Endowed Chair.
• Jeffery Berman is a Professor in UW Civil Engineering, and runs the Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Rapid Experimental Facility
• Doug Gibbons will give a tour of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Facility where he is the Field Engineer/Seismology Lab Coordinator.
• Bo Zhao, UW Department of Geography – Dr. Zhao is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he also directs the Humanistic GIS Lab.