BIOGRAPHY 
Dr. Jon D. Erickson is head of the Multispectral Analysis Group of 
the State of Michigan-sponsored Environmental Research Institute of 
Michigan which formerly was the Willow Run Laboratories, under the previous 
administration of The University of Michigan. Dr. Erickson received his 
B.S.E. in Science Engineering in 1959. his M.S.E. in 1962, and his 
Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in 1966 from The University of Michigan. 
He served as Deputy Director (site director) of the Mount Haleakala 
Observatory, Maui, Hawaii until 1969 when he returned to Ann Arbor. 
He is a member of the American Physical Society, American Nuclear Society, 
American Association for the Advancement of Science and has published 
in the fields of neutron Spectroscopy, communications and automatic 
control, lidar, astrodynamics, optical signatures and signal processing, 
and remote sensing of environment.