Kevin Shortt

Biography:
Kevin has worked in Canada's space industry for over 8 years and has contributed to some of Canada's largest space missions. During his
undergraduate studies at York University, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Instrument Services Lab at the Centre for Research in
Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech) where he contributed to and maintained lab standards in addition to a variety of other spacecraft
instrumentation research tasks. In 1999, he took a position as a Mission Planner for the RADARSAT-1 program at the Canadian Space Agency where he was part of the team responsible for the day to day image acquisition operations and calibration activities for the spacecraft. Following his term at the CSA, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Meteorological Services of Canada where he performed a variety of design tasks for a dual-spectrometer instrument that is currently operating on board the SCISAT-1 spacecraft to detect ozone concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere. From 2004 to 2006, he worked with the design team responsible for the lidar instrument on board NASA's Mars Phoenix Scout mission which operated on the Martian surface for 5 months in 2008.
Currently, he is involved in research on a new generation of laser communications system for use in ground-to-satellite communications while pursuing a masters degree in electrical engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is also serving as President of the Canadian Space Society, Canada's leading non-profit organisation dedicated to space technology
. In this role he works with members of government, academia and industry to further space technology
in Canada and can often be found discussing space issues on CBC and CTV National news.

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