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Evaluation of Optical Instruments for Real-Time Continuous Monitoring of Smoke Particulates
Andy Trent is a Project Engineer at MTDC. He received his bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University in 1989. Before coming to the Center in 1996, Andy worked as a civilian engineer for the Department of the Navy.
Mary Ann Davies is a Project Leader working for the Facilities, Recreation, Fire, and Watershed, Soil, and Air Programs. She received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in industrial and management engineering from Montana State University in 1988. Her Forest Service career began in the Pacific Northwest Region where she worked with facilities, tramways, fire, and recreation. Mary Ann worked for the Rocky Mountain Research Station's Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula before coming to MTDC in 1998.
Rich Fisher has bachelor's degrees in life science (U.S. Air Force Academy) and in meteorology (North Carolina State University). He has master's degrees in earth science (Colorado State University) and in international and strategic studies (Naval War College). He is a certified consulting meteorologist and is Reserve Assistant to the Director of Weather for the Air Force in the Pentagon.
Harold Thistle received a Ph.D. in plant science specializing in forest meteorology from the University of Connecticut in 1988. He is certified by the American Meteorological Society as a Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) and was a consultant in private industry before joining MTDC in 1992. He served as the Center's Program Leader for Forest Health Protection until 1998, developing modeling techniques that accurately describe transport of pesticides in the atmospheric surface layer and evaluating meteorological instrument systems for environmental monitoring. Harold now works with the Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team in Morgantown, WV.
Ronald Babbitt has bachelor's degrees in forestry and electrical engineering. He joined the Forest Service in 1975 and has worked in areas of forest utilization, forest engineering, and fire research. He now works with the Fire Chemistry Research Project at the Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, MT.
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