Alum Karen St.Germain (EE ‘87) to present seminar on remote sensing for the environment.
Karen St. Germain, will present a talk on her experiences as an electrical engineer working in the area of remote sensing since graduating from Union in 1987. The talk will be in Olin 115 at 9:55 am on Oct. 28. Her career path has included remote sensing for hurricanes, oceans and ice, and studies of environmental climate change such as the monitoring of Greenland’s ice shelf. Her work has taken her on adventures ranging from measuring sea surface height in the South Pacific to working on a German icebreaker in the Antarctic. Dr. St. Germain currently works with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), the next generation operational weather and environment satellite system. She is responsible for the scientific integrity of the data processing algorithms, pre- and post-launch sensor calibration, and the data product validation for the sensors and the operational earth, atmosphere and space environmental data products.