The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is pleased to welcome Dr. Danielle Smilovsky as the institute’s new Geospatial Research Scientist. Working in coordination with Seneca Holland, Dr. Smilovsky will be responsible for designing and implementing research projects using InSAR technology to address a range of geoscientific challenges.

Dr. Smilovsky focuses on SAR/InSAR and GIScience applications and serves as a Geospatial Service Center leader. She has 15 years of professional geospatial experience, with over 10 years focused on InSAR and GIS technology. She received her Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science from Texas State University at San Marcos and holds a Master of Science in Geographic Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sustainability from Arizona State University at Tempe.

Dr. Smilovsky worked as a Remote Sensing and GIS Scientist at a global engineering firm – WSP (previously as Amec/Amec Foster Wheeler/Wood) for much of her career. In this role, she worked on large multimillion-dollar geotechnical and environmental engineering projects that sculpted her skill set and industry expertise. Dr. Smilovsky has published and presented at many national and international conferences. She has received many accolades for her contributions, including the Top 40 Under 40 Geospatial Professional Leader award. She has served for many years in the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists leadership and other relevant professional organizations throughout her career.

Her passion is to leverage remote sensing and GIS technologies to monitor and manage the physical processes that affect our landscape under anthropogenic pressures in a changing world. Making this information accessible and usable to the community is her constant mission. Her research focuses on building InSAR time series analyses and GIS processes to characterize and monitor ground deformation due to groundwater pumping, hydrocarbon production activities, mining, landslides, earth fissuring, and more.

CBI looks forward to the advancements and opportunities Dr. Smilovsky will bring to the institute and welcomes her warmly to the team.