About the Authors
Ted Etter joined MTDC in 2002 as an electronics engineer and project leader. He has 20 years of experience designing test equipment, display devices, and medical instrumentation for private industry. For 6 years before joining MTDC, Etter taught courses in the electronics technology program at the University of Montana College of Technology, Missoula, MT. His work at MTDC includes projects in wireless communications, alternative energy sources, instrumentation, and process control. Etter received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Oregon and a master's degree in teacher education from Eastern Oregon State University.
Dick Karsky has been program leader for forest health protection, global positioning systems, and the air portion of the watershed, soil, and air program since the fall of 1999. Karsky has been a project leader at MTDC in global positioning systems, range, cooperative forestry, engineering, fire, reforestation and nurseries, residues, recreation, and forest health protection. He received a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from North Dakota State University and a master's degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Minnesota. He worked for private industry before coming to MTDC in 1977. In 2009, Karsky was named the Forest Service's Technical Engineer of the Year.
Steve Sichau is the regional design team electrical engineer/project manager for the Pacific Northwest Region. He provides electrical engineering assistance to forests in the region for contract administration, code questions, construction, power, lighting, power quality analysis, lightning protection, and other systems. Sichau has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and completed a year's graduate study in solid state physics there. From 1971 to 2006, Sichau was the Pacific Northwest Region regional engineer.
Theron Miller received his Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Montana in 1997 with an emphasis in natural resources social science. After graduating, he was a research and teaching professor at the University of Montana where his area of focus was applied social sciences directly related to management of natural resources on public lands. Miller joined MTDC in 2006 and is assisting with projects in safety and health, recreation, and fire and aviation management.
Andrew D. McLean joined MTDC in 2001 as an information technology trainee. Over the next 4 years he worked as assistant to the systems administrator, providing desktop and server support for the center. After McLean graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor's degree in network management in 2005, he moved into his current position as program analyst. He provides technical support to a number of programs at the center and serves as the point of contact for all computer and server-related issues. He prepared the "Defensive Horse Safety" training course and has written articles for T&D News.
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