Timothy (Tim) A. Glynn serves as the Chief of Staff at the USGS Earth Resources and Observation Science Center (EROS) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He retired from the U.S. Army and joined the EROS team in July 2020. Tim is a matrixed employee who also serves as the Acting Project Manager for Communications and Outreach (C&O) and the Land Satellites Data System (LSDS) Program.
Prior to working at EROS, Tim served in the U.S. Army and the Iowa Army National Guard for a total of 32 years.
He started his active-duty U.S. Army officer career path in 1989 after graduating from the University of South Dakota with a Regular Army commission. Upon completing the U.S. Army Intelligence School, he served in Worms, Germany, as a Platoon Leader and a Counter-Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Army Europe Information Systems Command.
Upon returning from his European Tour, Tim and his family moved to Sioux Falls, and he joined the Iowa National Guard as a drilling member, commanding an Infantry Company and a Cavalry Troop in Northwest Iowa. While living in Sioux Falls, Tim worked as a business manager in the corporate world for three years, eventually starting his own therapy company.
After five years as a business owner, Tim returned to government service as an Active Duty Iowa National Guard Officer, where he spent 22 years. While raising his family in the Des Moines area, his service included command positions in Counterdrug; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN); and Emergency Response programs working with law enforcement and the State of Iowa Office of Homeland Security. During this time, Tim was the Iowa National Guard State Deployment Officer, facilitating the deployment of over 5,300 soldiers in three years, including his own deployment to Panjshir, Afghanistan, in 2010.
Tim’s Senior Leadership positions included tours as a Brigade Level Commander, the State Director of Personnel, and the Iowa Army National Guard Chief of Staff. The culmination of Tim’s career was at U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was the Director of Intelligence, Mobilization Assistant (J2MA-Reserve Officer).
Tim and his wife, Cathy, are from South Dakota. They have two married children, Elizabeth (Iowa) and Stephen (Nebraska).
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Eyes on Earth Episode 91 – Intro to AmericaView
Eyes on Earth Episode 90 – Landsat 8 Turns 10
Eyes on Earth Episode 89 – EROS Workers and Weather
Eyes on Earth Episode 88 – Landsat 5’s Significance, Part 2
Eyes on Earth Episode 87 – Landsat 5’s Significance, Part 1
Eyes on Earth Episode 86 - Tours at EROS
Eyes on Earth Episode 85 – Landsat 7 Extended Science Mission
Eyes on Earth Episode 84 – Hurricane Disturbance Mapping
Eyes on Earth Episode 83 - ECOSTRESS and Burn Severity
Eyes on Earth Episode 81 – Tour of the EROS Radome
Eyes on Earth Episode 79 – Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
Eyes on Earth Episode 78 – Landsat 50 Lookback
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Eyes on Earth Episode 91 – Intro to AmericaView
Learn about AmericaView’s role of educating all ages about Earth observation and remote sensing science.Eyes on Earth Episode 90 – Landsat 8 Turns 10
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we reflect on Landsat 8’s 10th anniversary and the satellite’s contribution of 2.5 million scenes to the 50-year Landsat archive.Eyes on Earth Episode 89 – EROS Workers and Weather
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we take a look at how essential employees ensure that the ground station keeps receiving satellite imagery during wintry weather.Eyes on Earth Episode 88 – Landsat 5’s Significance, Part 2
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about how the Landsat 5 flight operations team managed to keep the satellite going as it collected data into its 20s and an award the team recently received.Eyes on Earth Episode 87 – Landsat 5’s Significance, Part 1
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the significance of the fifth satellite in the 50-year-old Landsat program and its remarkable ability to observe the Earth for nearly 29 years.Eyes on Earth Episode 86 - Tours at EROS
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we share what visitors to EROS can expect to learn about Landsat satellites, land change monitoring and more during a tour.Eyes on Earth Episode 85 – Landsat 7 Extended Science Mission
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn more about Landsat 7’s extended science mission and the resulting circumstance of collecting data from three Landsat satellites.Eyes on Earth Episode 84 – Hurricane Disturbance Mapping
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the effort to map disturbances in Florida from Hurricane Ian in near real time.Eyes on Earth Episode 83 - ECOSTRESS and Burn Severity
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the usefulness of ECOSTRESS data in examining predictors for wildfire burn patterns.Eyes on Earth Episode 81 – Tour of the EROS Radome
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we take a tour of a crucial component of the Landsat data acquisition process at EROS: the radome that houses the 10-meter antenna for downlinking data to be placed in the archive.Eyes on Earth Episode 79 – Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn about the process that has gradually added millions of earlier Landsat scenes to the 50-year archive.Eyes on Earth Episode 78 – Landsat 50 Lookback
Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we look back at how past guests viewed the value of Landsat satellites and their 50-year history. - Multimedia
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