The People Behind the Science
Our Team
The Global Airborne Observatory has been built by an extraordinary community of scientists, engineers, pilots, and collaborators spanning twenty years and six continents. Below you'll find the people who fly the missions, process the data, and turn spectral signals into conservation outcomes.
Greg Asner
Director
Hugo Cooper
Flight
Sheldon Decosse
Flight
Blair Edlund
Flight
Martin Goodjohn
Flight
Joseph Heckler
Research
Kelly Hondula
Research
Amanda Koeller
Support
Robin Martin
Research
Alan Ohara
Support
Andrea Scott
Support
Megan Seeley
Research
Bryce Smith
Flight
Nick Vaughn
Research
Uhiwai Wall
Support
Twenty Years of Collaboration
The GAO Community
Over twenty years, the Global Airborne Observatory has been shaped by hundreds of researchers, technicians, pilots, students, and collaborators from around the world. This is the full roster — every person who has contributed to the science, the flights, and the conservation outcomes that define GAO's legacy.
Flight
The pilots and flight engineers who put the instruments in the air
Jeff Agosti
Cody Corcoran
Chuck Depew
Don Koopmans
Dave Matheson
Evan McCallum
Scott Siebold
Devon Woodward
Technicians
The specialists who kept the sensors calibrated and the data clean
Chris Anderson
Aravindh Balagio
Ruth Emerson
Kathy Heidebrecht
James Jacobson
Matt Jones
Ty Kennedy
David Knapp
Katherine Kryston
Ethan Shafron
Sinan Sousan
Amanda Warner
Researchers
Scientists who turned raw spectral data into peer-reviewed discovery
Krista A. Adamek
Kamal Abdullah
Blanca A. Chicaiza Proaño
Ismail Adnan Malek
Reinaldo Aguilar
Cristhian Aguirre
Ulises Alemán Zelaya
Jose A. Marquez Zambrano
Anthony Ambrose
William Anderegg
Marco A. Olivera Álvarez
Miguel A. Rodríguez Zúñiga
Abner A. Sahuarico Fachin
Dante Asdrúbal Díaz Olivera
James Askew
Niery A.Tafur Olortegui
Paúl Aulestia
Selene Báez
Andres Baeza-Castro
Ray Baker
Claire Baldeck
Yulisa Ballesteros Miguel
Chris Balzotti
Jomar Barbosa
Nicole Barger
Arcenio Barrera Mosquera
Lisa Bentley
Santiago Bermudez Dobbertin
Ahmin Bin Bujang
Ali Bin Suut
Ben Blonder
Shamsudi B. Madian
Salleh B. Mahmud
Sufian B. Mayo Sahari
Jamali B. Mohammad
Natalie Boelman
Jeff Boggeln
Ashrin Bohari
Stephanie Bolman
Gabriela Bonelli
Paulo Brando
David Brassfield
Caroline Bruce
Hj Bujang B. Hossain
Rufo Bustamante Collado
Kelvin Cabudivo Coquinche
Kiki Caldeira
Andrea Calderón-Urquizo Carbonel
Sean Callahan
Walkom Cambronen Castro
Gabriel Cardenas Sangama
Lorelí Carranza Jiménez
Ciro Castillo Rojo García C.
Trevor Caughlin
Víctor Chango
Olivier Chassot
Seta Christophe Leornard
Katherine Clark
Cory Cleveland
Edgard Collado Delgado
Steve Connolly
Christina Contreras
Marcelo Cordonez
Eladio Cruz Leiton
Arturo Cruz Obando
Ovidiu Csillik
Francisco Cuesta
Alfonso C. Zúñiga Hartley
Jie Dai
Jacqueline D'Auria
Andrew Daves
James D. Dueñas Rodriguez
Kenton De La Cruz Gamarra
Silvia Del Pilar Prada Curico
Ana del Pilar Suimer Amao
Nathalie Del Rosario Castro
Michael DeMey
Philip de Rozario
Matteo Detto
Marcelo Díaz
Juan Diego del Castillo Ruiz
Angela Di Santas
Rodrigo Donadi Sanchez
Chris Doughty
Freddie Draper
Ford Drewry
Sandra Duran
Lourdes Durand Alayo
Paloma E. Alcázar García
Giulianna Edith Yulgo Soto
Felix Edmond
Dina Elena Paredes Cancino
Andrew Elmore
Nelly E.Michuy Paz Soldan
Awg Enjah B Awg Kepli
Jose Enrique Bravo Chinguel
Harold Enriquez Lizarbe
Eliazar E. Romero Julcarima
Luke Evans
Nomenjanahary Fanantenana Ghil
Support
The operations and administrative backbone of two decades of fieldwork
Jonas Asner
Heather DeAngelo
Patrick Freeman
Bob Haxo
Claire LeDuff
Linda Longoria
Terri Tippets
Students
Graduate and undergraduate researchers trained through GAO missions
Toby Ahrens
Mckenna Allen
Angelica Almeyda
Christa Anderson
Michael Beman
Stephanie Bilodeau
Kate Brauman
Eben Broadbent
Phil Brodrick
Dawn Browning
Rachel Carlson
Kim Carlson
Dana Chadwick
John Clark
Matt Colgan
Kyla Dahlin
Rachel Engstrand
Sophie Fauset
Emily Francis
Cassie Freund
Kim Fuller
John Gorelick
Bryant Grady
William Green
Dominica Harrison
Thomas Ingalls
Nicholas Johnson
Kealoha Kinney
Melissa Koons
David Lobell
Claire Lunch
Russel Main
Kelly McManus
Penelope Mograbi
Laven Naidoo
Becky Niemiec
Elsa Ordway
Kailey Pascoe
Stephen Porder
Teagan Roome
Nicolleta Stork
Mia Tierney
Kelly van Woesik
Tim Varga
Winston Wheeler
Collaborators
Partner scientists and institutions from around the world
Tom Allnutt
Steve Archer
Andre Baccini
Timothy Baker
Christopher Baraloto
Eldridge Bermingham
Afendi Bin Suhali
Joe Boardman
Stephanie Bohlman
Karl Burkhart
David Burslem
Mercedes Bustamante
Nona Chariello
Cory Cleveland
David Coomes
Susan Cordell
Dan Cusworth
Adrien Das
Todd Dawson
Judy Denslow
Sandra Diaz
Eric Dinerstein
Rodolfo Dirzo
Riley Duren
Michael Eastwood
Brad Eichelberger
Barend Erasmus
Henry Fandel
Sarah Feakins
Chris Field
Paul Fine
Janet Franklin
Nicolas Fyllas
Angela Gaylard
Christian Giardina
Benoit Goossens
Jamison Gove
Robert Green
Jeff Hall
Patrick Hart
Alex Held
Sean Hobson
Elizabeth Holland
Flint Hughes
Stephan Jacquemoud
Michael Keller
Peter Kirch
Tom Ladefoged
Jiwei Li
Mike Liddell
William Llactayo
Amy Mainzer
Yadvinder Malhi
Renaud Mathieu
Pamela Matson
Daniel Metcalfe
Javier Molina
Helena Muller-Landau
Brian Neilson
Koren Nydick
Imma Oliveras
Eliott Parsons
Carlos Peres
Ryan Perroy
Oliver Phillips
George Powell
Uwe Rasher
Kalani Reyes
Glen Reynolds
Norma Salinas
Van Savage
Steve Schill
Dave Schimel
Mary Scholes
Robert Scholes
Frank Shugart
Miles Silman
Andrew Skidmore
Izak Smit
Nate Stephenson
Philip Taylor
Lida Teneva
David Thompson
Alan Townsend
Hanna Tuomisto
Amanda Uowolo
Susan Ustin
Renaldo Valencia
Jan van Aardt
Frank Villagomez
Peter Vitousek
Lisa Weddington
Conrad Wessels
Carol Wessman
Joseph Wright