| Edward A. Martinko
Dr. Edward A. Martinko is the State Biologist and Director of the Kansas Biological Survey and Director of the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program. In 1975 he assumed responsibility for the KARS Program, established by NASA in 1972 as an applied research program of the University of Kansas. The KARS Program is one of the few remote sensing programs that successfully continued operation after NASA funding for applications was discontinued in the early 1980s. Under the direction of Dr. Martinko, the KARS Program developed its first commercial product, the GreenReport®. Dr. Martinko also served in Washington D.C. for three years (1992-1994) as the national Director of the U.S.EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), a complex, multidisciplinary research and development program at the national level with an annual budget of more than $43 million and a research staff of more than 60 individuals. Trained as a terrestrial ecologist, Dr. Martinko is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. His research interests include community and ecosystems ecology; basic research in insect community ecology; natural and anthropogenic changes in communities; studies of the spatial and temporal dimensions of change as an intellectual framework for the analysis of applied problems; human impacts on the environment and natural biological diversity as they relate to habitat quality, land use change, and natural resource management; interdisciplinary research; remote sensing and geographic information systems technology as tools for natural resources inventory and analysis. |
