Clayton serves as UASS’ Stalker Design Lead for the Stalker improvement effort. He is currently an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Digital Electronics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His projected graduation date is May of 2017.

Clayton’s work experience extends into several subfields of Electrical Engineering, but he initially started his forays into the industry through hardware and software modification of computer systems growing up in rural Wisconsin. Clayton’s most recent work pertains to battery management systems in remotely operated robotic systems, and has developed proficiency at embedded systems hardware design.

In his free time Clayton enjoys the recreation opportunities that Alaska has to offer and has recently developed a love for mountaineering and back-country skiing.

Ryker is an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering. He serves as the web master for UASS, making sure that the various aspects of the class are highlighted to increase interest in the class for future prospective students.

Ryker is very interested in robotics. He loves playing around with Arduino and web-based ground robots, and is involved in the ITEST telepresence robotics research project at UAF. He has a technology blog that can be found here.

Logan serves as UASS’ Project Manager for the Stalker and S900 improvement effort. He is currently a Master’s student in Electrical Engineering and has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Communications from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

He started working with the ACUASI 3 years ago, working with a team to produce a hexacopter based on the DJI S800 airframe to be introduced into ACUASI’s fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The final product of that design is now called the Ptarmigan and has become a mainstay of ACUASI’s multi-rotor UAV fleet. Working at the Naval Research Labs in Washington D.C. he was involved in cutting edge UAV research and development.

In his free time Logan is an avid UAV hobbyist. He enjoys designing and building UAVs for personal use and is active with UAV hobby groups around town.

Nathan Green was born and raised California. He has a bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from the University of California Santa Cruz. After graduating he worked for a small start up company researching researching and designing novel testing methods and solar concentration designs for photovoltaics. After moving to Alaska he started a master's program in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Power and Controls. Nathan enjoys a wide breadth of activities ranging from camping and hiking to playing board games.

Sarah Hoffman graduated from UAF with a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering, concentration in Aerospace and minor in Mathematics. She then joined the ACUASI team as a temporary worker designing mechanical integration of payloads using CAD programs and a 3D printer. Harassed almost daily for a year by her supervisor, Dr Hatfield, she finally decided to go back to school for a Master's degree.

Nathan Kingsland was born in Fairbanks, Alaska to David and Valarie Kingsland, both of which are UAF graduates. He has two younger brothers; Jonathan and Chris. After graduating high school in Seward, Alaska he enlisted in the United States Navy. While proudly supporting OIF/OEF missions overseas, he gained valuable knowledge and experience on aircraft instrumentation and electronic systems.

Upon completion of his enlistment he chose to come back to Alaska and pursue an electrical engineering degree. He is a member of the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) and IEEE. Cool Runnings is his favorite movie.

Zachary Krehlik is a god among men. His prowess at a hockey rink is a thing of legends, he turned down being picked in the first round of the 2006 NHL draft to pursue his interests elsewhere. His fascination with electrical engineering STEMs from his late great uncle on his mothers side, Nikola Tesla. Mr. Krehlik was a co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, but opted to pursue a STEM degree for a more traditional entrance into the engineering industry. A few of his accomplishments include slaying the Nemean Lion and the destruction of the Lernaean Hydra.

Shoa Russel got her undergratuate degree at FSU. While there, she worked on a number of interesting projects. These include: her senior design project, in which she lead a team that modified MIT's tin-can radar to measure the wing beat frequency of bird wings; a simple robotic hand controlled with an Arduino Uno and flex potentiometers; and a video game built in VHDL and displayed over VGA, with an enemy character that looked oddly similar to her teacher at the time.

Patrick serves as UASS’ S900 Design Lead for the S900 improvement effort. He is currently an undergraduate student in Computer Engineering with a projected graduation date of May 2016.

Patrick’s experience with UAS begin while serving in the Army as an Imagery Analyst. He worked with both the Sky Warrior and Hunter platforms in Balad as well as the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) in Baghdad.

While attending college he was selected to join the Modern Blanket Toss project as an instructor, data manager and Geospatial Analyst. He is currently serving as data manager and Geospatial Analyst for the Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA) on campus.

Patrick is very interested in using UAS to perform mapping tasks and is an expert at integrating UAS generated data into existing GIS databases.