Lucas Eduardo Moxey
lmoxey@iarc.uaf.edu

Current Address
920 SW 6th St Suite #304 2201
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 262-3200

EDUCATION
University of Florida: August 1999 – December 2001

Majors:
B.S. Geological Sciences
B.A. Business Administration

Graduation Date: December 2001 (Specialization in Remote Sensing & GIS)

University of Oregon: September 1998 – May 1999
Lynn University (Argentina): March – June 1998

EXPERIENCE
Remote Sensing Researcher, NOAA/NASA/ONR – Elizabeth City State Univ. (June 2002)
Utilization of SeaWiFS, ADEOS, MODIS, TOPEX/Poseidon, ERS and AVHRR datasets for ocean studies.

GIS Analyst, Alachua County (FL) - Dept. of Growth Management (GIS Division) (Jan. 2002 – June 2002)

Poster Presentation – AGU December 2001 Meeting “The 1997 eruption of Okmok Volcano, Alaska, a synthesis of remotely sensed data.”

Principal Investigator of the project “Observing the Earth from Space: receiving real-time satellite imagery from polar-orbiting satellites” funded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Dec. 2001). Currently installing an APT-AVHRR station at the Univ. of Florida – Dept. of Geography.

Teacher Assistant, Geology Dept. – Univ. of Florida (Fall 2001) Course: GLY 2010 Physical Geology

Remote Sensing Analyst, NASA – Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar Facility (ASF) (June – August 2001)
Responsibilities: Alaska DEM Project (AIRSAR Radar Mapping). Created high-resolution DEM & radar
backscatter mosaics, GIS and 3D visualizations of Okmok Volcano. Developed visualization CD-ROM “AIRSAR Mapping of Okmok Volcano” for NASA Headquarters.
NASA Press Release: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2001/release_2001_193.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/earth/volcano/index2.html

Principal Investigator of the Quaternary Tephrochronology Study of Mt. Hudson Volcano, Chile (April 2000 – Dec. 2001)

GIS Research Collaborator, RADARSAT Mapping of Yellowstone National Park Vegetation Cover (Jan. 2001- Dec. 2001)

Field Assistant, Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina) (May – June 2000)
Studied volcaniclastic processes and deposits in the Prov. of San Luis (Argentina). Investigated the igneous & sedimentary petrology of the southern Andes.

Constructed & maintained an APT-AVHRR satellite receiving station (February 1997 – October 1998).
Acquired, processed and archived collected imagery and monitored the effects of El Niño in southern South
America.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
NOAA & Univ. of Northern Iowa – Advanced Applications of Remote Sensing Workshop (Summer 2002)
NOAA/NASA/ONR Summer Fellowship – Undergraduate Research Experience in the Ocean and Marine Sciences (2002)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Grant – Construction of APT-AVHRR receiving station at the University of
Florida - Department of Geography (December 2001)
NSF Travel Grant – NASA-ASF Poster presentation at AGU December 2001 Conference (San Francisco, CA)
NSF Summer Fellowship – Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program 2001 at NASA-ASF
University Scholars Program 2000-2001 Research Grant. Project: Tephrochronology Study of Mt. Hudson Volcano

HONORS
July 2000-December 2001 – Senior Thesis “Origin and Geochemical Evolution of the Tephra and Epivolcani-clastic Deposits Found in Santa Cruz, Argentina, Attributed to Mt. Hudson Volcano and the Taitao Ridge (Chile).” (83 pp.)
May 2001 – University Scholars Program 2001 Symposium - Presenter
April 2000 – Selected for the 2000-2001 University Scholars Program - University of FloridaLANGUAGES
Fully Bilingual in Spanish (National Bilingual Baccalaureate Specialized in Arts and Sciences – Argentina) and
English (International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma – 1997). Proficient in French.

SKILLS
Remote Sensing:
- Acquisition and processing of NOAA, Meteor & Resurs satellite imagery. Processing and georectification of high-resolution AIRSAR Backscatter and Altimetry (DEM) data.
- Processing, interpretation and analysis of aerial & satellite imagery (e.g. Landsat, ASTER, MODIS, SeaWiFS, NOAA AVHRR, GOES, RADARSAT SAR, AIRSAR/TOPSAR, SIR-C/X-SAR, TOMS, Resurs and Meteor APT).

GPS: Certified technical user of Trimble GPS mapping & GIS post-processing equipment.

Computing Skills:
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS): ArcView 3.1, Arc/Info 8.0
- Remote Sensing Applications: ENVI, ERDAS Imagine, PCI, STK, SARView, XID, WXSat,
- 3-D Rendering: PCI, ENVI, MicroDEM, 3DEM, Truflite 5.4, USGS software (e.g. DLG Viewer)
- Operating Systems: Sun Solaris (Unix), SGI, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, Macintosh, DOS
- Programming Software: LAS, IDL 5.0
- WebPage Design: HTML, JavaScript
- General: MS Office 97/2000, Internet software (e.g. www, FTP), professional image processing
software

PUBLICATIONS
Moxey, L., Chadwick, J., Environmental Effects of the 2001 North Florida Wild Fires as Observed by Satellite Sensors. International Journal of Remote Sensing (in preparation, 2002).

Moxey, L., Prins, E., Elvidge, C., Monitoring and Change Detection Studies Following Wild Fires in Southern Argentina: a case study for MODIS, ASTER, AVHRR, SeaWiFS and SAC-C. Remote Sensing of Environment (in preparation, 2002).

Moxey, L. A remote sensing class exercise to study the effects of El Niño in South America. Journal of Science Education and Technology (submitted, 2002).

Moxey, L., Sedimentary Sequence From Southern Argentina Serves as a Quaternary Paleoclimatic Indicator. Journal of Undergraduate Research (in press, 2002).

Moxey, L., Guritz, R., Dehn, J., Price, E. Surface change detection, topographic and geologic mapping of Okmok volcano, Alaska, using high-resolution AIRSAR sensor data. NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, AIRSAR Workshop, Pasadena, California, 2002.

Moxey, L. AIRSAR Sensor Rediscovers Okmok Volcano (Alaska). IAVCEI Newsletter (in press, 2001).

Moxey, L. Satellite observations during the 1991 eruption of Mt. Hudson Volcano, Chile, for monitoring plume trajectories and locating ancient air-fall deposits. International Journal of Remote Sensing (submitted), 2001.

Moxey, L., Dehn, J., Papp, K., Patrick, M., Guritz, R. The 1997 eruption of Okmok Volcano, Alaska, a synthesis of remotely sensed data. Eos. Trans. AGU, 82 (47), V42C-1033, 2001.

Moxey, L. E. Late Quaternary Tephra Deposits of Mt. Hudson Volcano, Southern Argentina. Journal of Undergraduate Research, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 2001.

Moxey, L.E. The 1991 Eruption of Mt. Hudson Volcano and its Effects. The Thistle (1997). Publication pending.

Fuerza Aérea Argentina. Revista Alas de América y del Mundo. January-February 1995. Contribution of
comparative chart

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, American Geophysical Union