Justin Lancaster

Justin Lancaster is founder and CEO of Hydrojoule, LLC, a technology startup focused on guiding and accelerating research in energy, environment and biomedicine.

Justin combines over thirty years of scientific and legal training with over fifteen years in business management. He founded and launched Geosoftware Inc. in 1995, where he created and patented a forerunner of today's Google Earth technology.

Dr. Lancaster has presented research results and lectured at numerous universities and international conferences. He has participated in governmental environmental policy-making at local, state, federal and international levels and has designed and launched multi-million dollar research studies, such as the well-known Charles River IM3 Project that led to significant improvement in water quality in that watershed in eastern Massachusetts.

He was Founder and Executive Director of the internationally recognized Environmental Science and Policy Institute (ESPI) in the late 1980s,
participating at the 2nd World Climate Conference and the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

As postdoctoral scientist at the California Space Institute, Dr. Lancaster worked with the late astronaut Sally Ride to analyze NOAA and NASA satellite data to discern biospheric and atmospheric chemical responses to the geophysical El Nino cycle.

Dr. Lancaster is a member of the Oceanography Society, the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society and the Prometheus Society. He received a White House Award for Sustainability Research and a Sea Grant Fellowship supporting work with the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.