Presenter

Brian is a Scientific and Technical Professional (ST level), Senior Research Engineer with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development (ORD), located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. His current work involves development of emission samplers for use on unmanned aircraft systems to characterize hazardous pollutants from open air combustion and detonation processes. He is a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Part 107 certified unmanned aircraft system (UAS) pilot and has flight-trained with the U.S. Geological Survey. His team has conducted 31 UAS-based emission sampling campaigns since 2015 on wildland fires, oil fires, and military detonations and have published over 160 peer-review journal articles.