Presenter: Delivering Critical Data from Any Size Platform

Dr. Shelley Petroy is responsible for the Earth Science portfolio at Ball Aerospace. Petroy leads a team of technologists and scientists in support of mission development for NASA, NOAA, USGS and DoD. She is actively working with these customers to miniaturize science instruments, while maintaining the high performance and quality of the resulting data.

Petroy has more than 20 years of experience engaging and supporting the Earth Science and aerospace communities in remote sensing technologies, calibration and algorithm development. Her career began at the Smithsonian Institution, where she studied the moons of Jupiter, with NASA, then transitioned to the aerospace industry. Prior to rejoining Ball Aerospace in 2017, Petroy led data product development at the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

Petroy received a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from Washington University in St. Louis, a M.S. in Planetary Geology from Arizona State University, and a B.S. in Geology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.