Dr. Peter Webley

Dr. Peter Webley is a Research Professor of Remote Sensing as well as the Associate Director of Research at the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, UAF. Peter is the Interim Director at UAF’s Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (Center-ICE) and leads/co-leads its federal grants as Principal Investigator. Peter also leads several projects at ACUASI on the integration of UAS for Disaster Preparedness and Response and integrating new technologies to support operational implementation of UAS into Alaska and the U.S. Arctic.

Peter was the Vice-President of UAF’s first start-up, V-ADAPT, Inc., formed in 2013 and has successfully licensed intellectual property, been awarded small business innovation research projects and a US patent as well as been inducted into the State of Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame 2016 – 2017 class. He is a scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur. Before coming to UAF, Peter was a postdoctoral researcher at Kings College London and developed a remote sensing monitoring system for the volcanoes of Central America. Peter has a BSc in Geophysics and an MSc in Atmospheric Sciences, both from the University of East Anglia, UK and a PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Reading, UK.