William Kirkey

William is an Electrical Engineer who has been designing, deploying, and managing RATES sensors and systems for environmental monitoring for 14 years. His doctoral dissertation, completed in parallel with this work, centered on novel designs for optical water-quality sensors featuring both low cost and enhanced accuracy relative to commercially available options. He has authored over a dozen refereed scientific publications. His research interests include all aspects of autonomous environmental monitoring systems, inclusing sensor design, system design, deployment, operation and maintenance, quality assurance, cyberinfrastructure, and data management.

He focuses on both reducing the costs associated with all aspects of system deployment and operation, as well as on improving both the accuracy and the utility of the data produced by such systems.