DR. PETER WEBLEY

Geophysical Institute
2156 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. 99775

Tel no: +1 907 474 1542

 

• Associate Director of Research

• Deputy Director, Center for Arctic Security and Resilience

• Deputy Director, Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization
  

Dr. Peter W. Webley is the Associate Director of Research for the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) and a Research Associate Professor of Remote Sensing, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr. Webley has a PhD in Remote Sensing and more than 15+ years of experience as a geoscience and remote sensing scientist and researcher. He worked on the development of operational and real-time applications of geospatial data for hazard detection and decision making.  Peter is also the Deputy Director of UAF’s Technology Transfer Office, OIPC, and has a passion for business development and technology transfer from an academic environment into the private sector as well as providing tools and products for hazard assessment and risk mitigation from geospatial data and observations.

 

Selected Publications

 

Hatfield, M., Cahill, C., Webley, P., Garron, J., and Beltran, R. (2020). Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System-Efforts by the University of Alaska to Support the FAA/NASA UAS Traffic Management Program. Remote Sensing, 12 (19), 3112.

Webley, P. W. (2019). Startup Week 2019: Opportunities for UA students to engage in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Alaska Journal of Commerce. Nov 11, 2019.

Riley, K., Thompson, M., Webley, P., and Hyde, K. D. (2017). Uncertainty in Natural Hazards, Modeling and Decision Support: An Introduction to This Volume, AGU Geophysics Monograph: Hazard Uncertainty Assessment: Modeling and Decision Support, 223, 1 – 8.

Webley, P. W., Patra, A., Bursik, M., Pitman, E. B., Dehn, J., Singh, T., Singla, T., Jones, M. D., Madankan, R., Stefanescu, E. R., and Pouget, S. (2017). Building an uncertainty modeling framework for real-time VATD. AGU Geophysics Monograph: Hazard Uncertainty Assessment: Modeling and Decision Support, 223, 59 – 87.

Webley, P. W. (2017). Role of uncertainty in decision support for volcanic ash. AGU Geophysics Monograph: Hazard Uncertainty Assessment: Modeling and Decision Support, 223, DOI: 10.1002/9781119028116.ch5.

Cunningham, K. W., and Webley, P. (2016). Validating and calibrating a forecast model. Patent: 9436784B2