Joe Blahovec

As the satellite and ground systems operations branch chief at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Research Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Joe Blahovec (ElCompEngr’97) leads the team managing the Landsat 9 and 8 satellite missions. Under his leadership, the team recently decommissioned the Landsat 7 satellite after it completed 25 years of successful Earth observation, exceeding its original five-year design life.