Dr. Shoop is a research geotechnical engineer specializing seasonal impacts on vehicle operations with special emphasis on mechanics of snow, ice and freezing−thawing ground. Her expertise includes seasonal impacts on vehicle performance and maneuvers (and vice versa), vehicle and terrain instrumentation and testing, terrain strength, finite element modeling, constitutive representation of thawing soil and snow, moisture flow in freezing and thawing soils, and geospatial modeling. Her experience includes vehicle testing, operations and modeling in many of the cold regions of the world including the Arctic (northern Scandinavia, Alaska, Greenland, Canada), the Baltic States, much of northern Europe, and Antarctica - receiving the Antarctic Service Medal. She has worked at the US Army, ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) for nearly 35 years and has authored over 200 publications, papers and technical reports.

Mr. Morlock's experience spans: 

• Sponsored geotechnical/geospatial and sensor research

• Consulting for geotechnical engineering and sensor monitoring 
• Geospatial/GIS/data visualization/web programming
• Data mining
• Navigation and geospatial and geotechnical database design
• Patentability studies