Dr. Richard Hale


Richard Hale
  • Spahr Professor and Chair
  • Associate Director of CReSIS

Contact Info

2120B Learned Hall

Education —

B.S., Iowa State University, 1988
M.S., Washington University, 1991
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1995

Research —

Composite materials and structures

Unmanned Aerial Systems

Experimental stress analysis

Laboratory

Composite Materials

Current Research Projects

Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, NSF Science & Technology Center grant-Co-PI, Air Vehicles Lead, Associate Director for Technology

EcoSAR The first P-band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure, Biomass and Water, NASA IIP, Co-PI (institutional PI).

Radar Instrumentation for DC-8 for Measurements over Antarctic Ice, NASA-Co-PI, Air Vehicles Lead

NASA National Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship Program, NASA-PI, Institutional Director

Development of a Collaborative Transportation Vehicle Prototyping Center, With Initial Application to a Low Altitude Medium Endurance UAV for Transportation Research, KU Transportation Research Center-PI

Integrated Radar Instrumentation for Deployment During the NASA 2010 Operation Ice Bridge Field Campaign to Greenland, NASA-Co-PI, Air Vehicles Lead

Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center (M2SEC), NIST, Co-I, Composite Materials Lead

Electromagnetic Environmental Concerns for Carbon-Fiber Composite Structures, Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Research Center, Co-I