Cahill to lead university’s unmanned aircraft center

University of Alaska Fairbanks atmospheric chemistry professor Catherine Cahill is the new director of the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration.

Cahill has worked with unmanned aircraft at UAF since 2006. She has extensive experience developing payloads and conducting remote sensing, wildlife monitoring and emergency response activities.

Cahill recently returned from Washington, D.C., where she worked for 19 months as a congressional fellow for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. She received the 2013 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Service Award for helping the public and government officials understand air pollution across Alaska, especially in Fairbanks.

One of Cahill’s first actions was to move ACAUSI’s offices to the Akasofu Building onto the Fairbanks campus, to facilitate collaborations with UAF researchers, natural hazard experts and emergency responders. Cahill replaces Marty Rogers, who will continue to serve as ACUASI’s business director. The center will also have a new director of its Pan-Pacific UAS Test Range Complex: John Nevadomsky.

He replaces Ro Bailey, who retired this month. ACUASI is part the UAF Geophysical Institute.

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