Dr. Andrew Bell, C. Phys.

Andrew has 25 years of experience in the remote sensing space industry split between time in Europe and North America. He is an energetic professional facilitator of measurements important to understanding the environment and climate change having championed the design and development of scientific instruments for different types atmospheric sounding as well as earth and ocean surface sensing. These projects have flown on ERS-2, ENVISAT, MSG & SCISAT. He has a decade of experience leading major Canadian studies for space-borne hyper-spectral imaging and meteorological instrumentation. He has also made significant contributions to several space astronomy projects including the XMM, FUSE and James Webb Observatories.

He is a competent Principal Scientist, Project Manager, Project Technical Leader, Systems Engineer and Business Development Manager. His skills include; strategic planning, initial definition of concepts, proposal production, specification and analysis of requirements, allocation and maintenance of performance budgets, oversight of detailed design, R&D, manufacture and test, cost estimation, business development to support generation of funding, project execution management and reporting.

His academic qualifications, (all from the UK), include a Doctorate in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Manchester, a Masters in Satellite Remote Sensing from University & Imperial Colleges of London and a double major Bachelors in Physical Electronics and Astrophysics & Astronomy from the University of St Andrews.

24 October 2013