Richard W. McCreight is an environmental scientist, commercial pilot, and business owner. He began his career fighting and researching wildfires for the U.S.F.S. Fire Science Lab in Riverside, CA. That research led to NASA sponsored projects monitoring global environmental impacts and tracking environmental changes across regions using aircraft and satellite image data.  

Richard has over 25 years of aerial imaging experience in Environmental Monitoring, Crisis Management, Geo-Intelligence Analysis, and Airborne Operations Management. He has worked extensively in the government, academia and commercial sector. Richard has a B.S. in Physical Geography/Environmental Science from the University of California, Riverside, and a M.S. in Forest Physiology from Oregon State University.

Richard’s career highlights include the mapping of the Panama Canal for the Department of Defense and surveying floods in Venice, Italy for Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has documented numerous national disasters for the National Science Foundation including California wildfires and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  Richard won the USAF Commander’s Challenge for tracking arms and drug smugglers using aerial imaging technology.