Andrew Schwartz is a geophysicist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Environmental and Munitions Center of Expertise in Huntsville, Alabama. He joined the Corps in 2002 and is the Corps' subject matter expert for geophysics in the Military Munitions Response Program. His expertise is designing characterization and clean-strategies for UXO sites, and integrating new technologies in the Corps' Formerly Used Defense Site's program. His background includes detecting and locating UXO on land and in marine environments, mineral exploration, oil exploration, environmental and radiological assessments, and geotechnical studies for hydroelectric power generation and underwater pipeline corridor routing. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1988.