After working as an environmental consultant, I began with
the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection where I served
for 18 years. I built and maintained a
strong technical support group (5-10 staff) that provided field sampling, laboratory
analyses and data interpretation for water chemistry and biological data, as
well as input on State rule development.
We also performed special projects over time, typically through outside
funding from NOAA and NASA. The focus of
those studies was the refinement of surface water quality and biological health
assessments through the utilization of remote sensing (airborne and
satellite). We (with USF) demonstrated
our ability to accurately document estuarine surface water quality using
satellite observations, and have further demonstrated the global applicability
of these approaches.
As Florida’s Gulf of Mexico Alliance Nutrient Lead, and
co-chair of the mercury subcommittee for 10 years I was actively engaged in
stakeholder and government-to-government discussions regarding regional
environmental issues. I devised and lead
an effort that resulted in over $13M worth of remote sensing projects being
funded by NASA in the Gulf of Mexico. I
have been an invited member on grant review panels for NASA and NOAA, and served
in this capacity for other agencies such as the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Commission.
I was involved in the response mode for the BP
release in 2010, and participated in 18 ocean cruises to collect data from Key
West to the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, serving as Chief Scientist on some. I
have extensive experience with ocean cruises and the measurement of marine
optics and other pertinent parameters. Working with USF over the past decade we
have helped to refine the understanding of numerous coastal and oceanic
properties through the use of satellite remote sensing, and I have participated
in the past two VIIRS calibration/validation cruises with NOAA and NASA support
to my current employer Dr. Chuanmin Hu at the USF College of Marine Science.
Barnes BB; Hu C; Kovach
C; Silverstein RN. 2015.
Sediment plumes induced by the Port of Miami dredging: Analysis and
interpretation using Landsat and MODIS data. Remote Sens Environ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.023
Le C; Hu C; English D; Cannizzaro J; Kovach C. 2012. Climate-driven chlorophyll-a changes in a
turbid estuary: Observations from satellites and implications for management. Remote Sens Environ 130:11–24 doi:10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.011
Le C; Hu C; English D; Cannizzaro J; Chen Z; Kovach C; Anastasiou CJ; Zhao J; Carder K. 2012.
Inherent
and apparent optical properties of the complex estuarine waters of Tampa Bay:
What controls light?
Estuarine
Coastal Shelf Sci doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2012.09.017
Le C; Hu C; English D; Cannizzaro J; Chen Z; Feng L; Boler R; Kovach
C. 2012. Towards a
long-term chlorophyll-a data record in a turbid estuary using MODIS observations. Prog Oceanogr
doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.10.002
doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.10.002
Liu
Y; Weisberg RH; Hu C; Kovach C;
Riethmüller R. 2011. Evolution of
the Loop Current system during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill event as
observed with drifters and satellites. In: Monitoring and Modeling the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise. Geophys Monogr Ser doi:10.1029/2011GM001127
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