UWKA Facility Contacts & Flight Center Directions

King Air Facility Contacts

Organization Chart

 

Organization Chart

Contact the Facility Management Team to inquire about general questions around utilization of the facility's research aircraft and instrumentation.

The Engineering Support and Maintenance Group:

  • integrates instrumentation into the aircraft, from mechanical and electrical design to machining parts and installation
  • determines the requirements for integrating user-supplied instrumentation
  • supports projects during the field phase which includes troubleshooting and finding solutions for issues with aircraft systems and instrumentation
  • performs maintenance and inspection of the aircraft

The Project Science and Operations Group:

  • provides expertise in instrumentation to assist in payload configurations and installations
  • operates, maintains, and processes data of facility-owned instruments
  • serves as mission scientist during projects to support facility-owned instruments
  • operates the aircraft

Facility Management Team

Jeff French
Facility Manager, Department Head, Associate Professor
jfrench@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-4143

Matt Burkhart
Associate Facility Manager, Engineer, Senior Research Scientist
monoski@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-4150

Bart Geerts
Chief Scientific Liasion, Professor
geerts@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-2261

Engineering Support and Maintenance Group

Nick Mahon
Group Lead, Principal Aeronautical Engineer
nmahon@uwyo.edu | (307) 760-3703

Zane Little
Master Technician
zane.little@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-2990

Ryan Kondratieff
Master Technician, Machinist
rkondrat@uwyo.edu

Austin Morgan
Engineer
amorga13@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245 

Lewis Wright
Engineer
lwrigh10@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245

Tom Pierce
Lead Aircraft Mechanic
tpierce@uwyo.edu 

John Bryant
Aircraft Maintenance Technician, Senior
jbryant6@uwyo.edu 

Brent Glover
Part-time Consulting Technician
bglover@uwyo.edu 

Project Science and Operations Group

Matt Burkhart
Group Lead, Engineer, Senior Research Scientist - Data acquisition, instrument integration
monoski@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-4150

Anna Robertson
Project Scientist, Associate Research Scientist - Aerosols and inlets
arober29@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-2180

Coltin Grasmick
Project Scientist, Associate Research Scientist - Airborne radar
cgrasmic@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-4899

Eric Beamesderfer
Project Scientist, Associate Research Scientist - Trace gases
ebeamesd@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245

Natalie Kille
Project Scientist, Associate Research Scientist - Atmospheric state parameters
nkille@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245

Adam Majewski
Project Scientist, Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Cloud physics
amajewsk@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245

Owen Cruikshank
Project Scientist, Associate Research Scientist - Airborne lidar
ocruiksh@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245

Ed Sigel
Research Pilot
esigel@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-2423

Richard Roush
Research Pilot
rroush1@uwyo.edu | (307) 766-3245

Al Rodi
Part-time Consulting Scientist, Professor Emeritus
rodi@uwyo.edu

Larry Oolman
Part-time Consulting Scientist
ldoolman@uwyo.edu

Sam Haimov
Part-time Consulting Scientist
haimov@uwyo.edu

Directions

The Donald L. Veal Flight Center is located at 5766 Old State Highway 130 outside of Laramie. Directions using Google Maps.

Map with directions from Laramie to the Flight Center