Scott Nowicki - Chief Scientist and EAPI Officer
Dr Scott Nowicki’s expertise is in the application of the latest geospatial research to problems in planetary monitoring and infrastructure resilience. His work has included Mars landing site analysis, remote tree species mapping, and active wildfire operations. With funding sources that range from NASA to local governments and utilities, he blurs the line between academic research and industry. Scott received his PhD from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU while working on four active missions to Mars. Scott is a leading industry expert in the application of drones, hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing, tackling the effects of a changing climate and a population that continues to explode.
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John Ericksen - Lead Engineer
John Ericksen is a software developer with Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies and a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico with the Moses Biological Computation Lab. Working with the earth and planetary sciences department, John's research focus is on autonomous airborne robot swarms used to sample volcanic C02 plumes. The goal of this is to link volcanic C02 output with volcanic behavior to better understand the precursors to life-threatening eruptions. John has also published on a variety of other research topics including software architecture, evolutionary complex systems, and intelligent swarm robotics.
Matthew Fricke - Software and Machine Learning Engineer
Research Assistant Professor, UNM Department of Computer Science
Research Assistant Professor, UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing
Tobias Fischer - Volcanologist
Professor UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences
Earth and Planetary Insights is a member of the NewSpace NM Launchpad Co-Innovation Space.