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Who We Are | ||
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Art Springsteen is the president and
chief technical officer of Avian Technologies, LLC. Avian Technologies specializes in the
design and manufacture of instruments and standards for optical spectometry and other optical
radiation measurements. Prior to starting Avian Technologies in 1999, Dr. Springsteen was
Principal Scientist and Director for Advanced Development at Labsphere,Inc. for 13 years.
During his tenure at Labsphere, he developed over 30 commercial products, including the
Spectralon® diffuse reflectance material product line, numerous optical coatings, fluorescent
materials and accessories for measurement of reflectance, diffuse transmittance and
fluorescence. He holds five U.S. patents (and has three pending) on materials and instrument
design, won a 1990 Photonics Spectra New Product of the Year award (Optical Grade Spectralon®),
and shared another in 1997 for the development of the Labsphere bispectral fluorescence
colorimeter. He has published over thirty scientific papers and may often be seen in the
pages of Spectroscopy Magazine's "Spectroscopy Workbench"' section. He is also
co-author/editor (with Jerry Workman) of the Academic Press book "Applied Spectroscopy,
A Complete Guide for Practitioners," has edited the Proceedings of the Third and
Fourth Oxford Conferences on Spectrometry. He is also a member and former Secretary for
the Council for Optical Radiation Measurement, a member of the Board of Directors of
the Inter Society Color Council, and a former member of the National Research Council
of the U.S. He is also an active member of ASTM Committees E-12 (Color and Appearance)
and E-13 (Molecular Spectroscopy), the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and Council for
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. He holds a Ph.D. from West Virginia University in Organic Chemistry.
Will Weber becomes the head of
Optical Design and Development for Avian Technologies starting January 2004. He has been
the optical system design guru for Avian Technologies, GretagMacbeth and MacBeth color
instruments for over 16 years. He holds numerous patents and has been responsible for the
major spectrophotometer design and development projects at GretagMacbeth. Prior to joining
MacBeth, Will spent six years as an optical research engineer at Perkin-Elmer's Optical
Technology Division, including work on the Hubbell Space Telescope. Will's interests and
accomplishments are far ranging. He serves as Avian Group's optical engineer, optomechanical
designer, and as project manager. David R. Wyble joined Avian Tech on a part-time basis in late 2006. Dave
will be the Technical Specialist for the Murakami and Zehntner product lines. Dave will also be
assisting with new product development, with the focus on gaining penetration
in the color market. In addition to these, Dave has also taken over editing the
Avian Tech
and Avian Group USA
web sites. So now you know where to complain! | Good question with a number of answers… Plus — we like crows! | |
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