Dr. Robert Shuchman is presently Co-Director of the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), a research center of Michigan Technological University. In recent years, he has been researching applications of advanced color producing agent algorithms to assessing Great Lakes water quality via remote sensing as well as the mapping of bottom cover types in the region for the US EPA under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the Great Lakes Observation System (GLOS), the US National Park Service, and NASA.