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Scott Bischke

Present Title / Contact Information

Senior Advisor, Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, 2048 Analysis Dr., Bozeman, MT 59718
Phone: 406-556-1414; fax: 406-556-1405; email: scott [at] emountainworks [dot] com

Education
1983   M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
1981   B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman

Professional Profile
Mr. Bischke’s passion lies in applying his engineering, writing, and speaking skills to solve, understand, define, and/or communicate scientific concepts.  He enjoys and works well in situations requiring a fundamental understanding of a system or process.  He values critical thought, and works well developing ideas, reaching into unknown areas, and conveying scientific concepts to others. His work at Hewlett-Packard included conceiving, planning, organizing, and leading the first HP Inkjet International Environmental Conference, bringing together engineers and scientists from five locations internationally. More recently, he planned and coordinated a remote sensing workshop in Bozeman that brought together scientists from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Air Force Research Lab, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (employing NASA and Canadian Space Agency [RadarSat] data), USGS, University of Santa Barbra, MSU, and HyPerspectives, Inc. He has written technical reports for the National Park Service, and is an accomplished popular press writer (two well-received books) and speaker (regularly speaking at health and wilderness conferences regarding his book, Crossing Divides). Scott is also an accomplished photographer, plus an avid HTML website developer, having completed five commercial websites to date.

Selected publications

• Vital Signs Monitoring Plan, a report to the National Park Service by the Greater Yellowstone Network Inventory and Monitoring Program; Multi-Sensor Fusion for Wildfire and Valley Hazards, a proposal to NASA (Feb’02);
• Mapping Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Fuel by Fusing High-Resolution Hyperspectral and Polarimetric Data, a proposal to the Joint Fire Sciences Program (Apr’01);
• XML for Web-based Workflow Management, a final report to the Department of Commerce (Jan’01)
• Moore, J. B., Bischke, S., Villegas, T., and Gravley, R. J., "VOC Abatement Evaluation and Selection:  A Successful Process," Semiconductor FABTECH; 8th edition, July 1997, pg. 49-61.
• McNabb, J. and Bischke, S., "Optimization of C2F6 Burnbox Destruction," Semiconductor International; April 1998, pg. 131-134.

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