Andrew Klose, Ph.D.

Andrew has worked at USGS EROS since February 2024.  Prior to joining EROS, Andrew was a full-time Bioenvironmental Engineering Officer in the South Dakota Air National Guard (SDANG) and was previously on the faculty at Augustana University (AU) in Sioux Falls, SD. In the SDANG, Andrew served as the Installation Radiation Safety Officer, Laser Safety Officer, and Respiratory Protection Program Administrator while leading the occupational health program. At AU, Andrew taught general, physical, and nuclear chemistry courses and led a research program centered around precision laser spectroscopic measurements of radioactive nuclides with the goal of deducing nuclear ground-state properties. Prior to moving to South Dakota, Andrew was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST in Boulder, CO, where he developed optical frequency comb-based spectrometers in the near infrared wavelength region for measurement of trace gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Andrew obtained his PhD in nuclear chemistry at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, where he studied nuclear ground-state properties of rare isotopes via laser probing.