ONE EARTH: NEW HORIZONS MESSAGE
AN INITIATIVE BY GALAXY GARDEN ENTERPRISES LLC
PROJECT DIRECTOR
JON LOMBERG: ARTIST, USA
BOARD OF ADVISORS USA
ERNA AKUGINOW: DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER
JIM BELL: ASTRONOMER
GREGORY BENFORD: PHYSICIST AND AUTHOR
JAMES BENFORD: PHYSICIST,
FARIBA BOGZARAN: ARTIST, SCIENTIST
DAVID BRIN: AUTHOR, SCIENTIST
SHELDON BROWN: ARTIST, EDUCATOR
DIANA COWERN: SCIENCE EDUCATOR
MARIE CUTLIP: ACCOUNTANT
JASON DUNN: CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
LOLLIE GARAY: SCIENCE TEACHER
MILES GILSTER: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
PAUL GILSTER: SPACE TECHNOLOGY WRITER
DAVID GRINSPOON: ASTROBIOLOGIST
NANETTE GUIFFRIDA: GYMNASTICS COACH
GEOFF HAINES-STILES: SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY
ED HUTCHINS: COGNITIVE SCIENCTIST AYUMI IIZUKA: PROFESSIONAL ACTOR /IMPROVISOR
KIMBERLY A. JAMESON: COGNITIVE SCIENTIST
RYAN LAI: MUSICIAN
TERESA LARSEN: DATA VISUALIZATION ARTIST
PAMELA LEE: ARTIST
ALBERT YU-MIN LIN: RESEARCH SCIENTIST
IVAN LINSCOTT: PHYSICIST
FELIX J. LOCKMAN: RADIOASTRONOMER
SHARONA LOMBERG: ARTIST, BUSINESSWOMAN
LORI MARINO: NEUROSCIENTIST/CETACEAN EXPERT
LOUIS NARENS: MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
DERRICK PITTS: SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATOR
WILLIE ROBINSON: SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATOR
DOUG SIMONS: ASTRONOMER
ANNA SODARI: ARTIST/POET
PAUL SHUCH: ENGINEER/EDUCATOR
ALAN STERN: PLANETARY SCIENTIST
WOODY SULLIVAN: ASTRONOMER
DAVID TATEL: JUDGE
JILL TARTER: ASTRONOMER
NANCY TASHIMA: SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATOR
YUAN WANG: MARINE BIOLOGIST
HUIMIN QIN WARBUS: BUSINESS CONSULTANT
MARK WASHBURN: SCIENCE WRITER
LAURA WELCHER: LINGUIST
LEILEHUA YUEN: CULTURAL ASTRONOMY TEACHER
BOARD OF ADVISORS INTERNATIONAL
CHRISTOPHER AÑORVE : ASTRONOMER, MEXICO
CAROLYN BARNETT: FIBRE ARTIST, CANADA
SIMON BELL: PHOTOGRAPHER, CANADA
DENISE RIBEIRO BRITO: BIOCHEMIST, MOZAMBIQUE
CARINA BÖHM: WRITER, GERMANY
ADAM CROWL: ENGINEER, AUSTRALIA
PAUL CURNOW: ASTRONOMY OUTREACH, AUSTRALIA
PAUL DE SILVA: MEDIA ARTS EDUCATOR, CANADA
WILSON DA SILVA: SCIENCE JOURNALIST, AUSTRALIA
DANIELA DE PAULIS: ARTIST ITALY/NETHERLANDS
BOB DERKACH: MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER, CANADA
STEPHANE DUMAS: PHYSICIST, CANADA
BRYAN GAENSLER: ASTRONOMER, AUSTRALIA
MICHAEL A. GARRETT: ASTRONOMER, NETHERLANDS
GAIL GLASPER: ARTIST, AUSTRALIA
MIGUEL GONÇALVES: TELEVISION HOST, PORTUGAL
NALAKA GUNAWARDENE: SCIENCE WRITER, SRI LANKA
CORNELIUS HOLTORF: ARCHAEOLOGIST, SWEDEN
STEPHEN HORENSTEIN: COMPOSER, ISRAEL
NIKOLAI S. KARDASHEV: ASTRONOMER, RUSSIA
KAORU KIMURA: ASTRONOMY OUTREACH, JAPAN
PENNEY KOME: WRITER, CANADA
DAN KRECH: PRODUCER, CANADA
GUILLERMO LEMARCHAND: ASTRONOMER, ARGENTINA
AARON LEVINE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER, N. IRELAND
KELVIN LONG: SPACECRAFT ENGINEER, UK
DAVID MALIN: ASTROPHOTOGRAPHER, AUSTRALIA
ETIENNE MARTINACHE: ENGINEER, FRANCE
REVITAL MAROM: I.T. BUSINESS CONSULTANT, FRANCE
DAVID MARTINEZ-DELGADO: ASTRONOMER, SPAIN
BOB MCDONALD: SCIENCE JOURNALIST, CANADA
IAN MCLENNAN: DESIGN CONSULTANT, CANADA
TIBOR PACHER: SPACECRAFT ENGINEER, HUNGARY
PETER POULSEN: ECONOMIST, KINGDOM OF TONGA
PEKKA RAUTAJOKI: ASTRONOMY OUTREACH, FINLAND
ULF-DIETRICH REIPS: INTERNET SCIENTIST, GERMANY
ANDRES ELOY MARTINEZ ROJAS: LAWMAKER, MEXICO
EDUARDO RUBIO-HERRERA: ASTRONOMER,
GUATEMALA
IVO SAVIANE: ASTRONOMER, CHILE
CONRAD STEENKAMP: WRITER, SOUTH AFRICA
TATIANA STOMAKHINA: ARTIST AND POET, ESTONIA
EMILIANO TERÁN-BOBADILLA: PHYSICIST, MEXICO
CRISTINA RUIZ TORRENTE: ARCHITECT, SPAIN
RAFAEL MARTIN ÚBEDA: ARCHITECT, SPAIN
PHIL YOCK: ASTRONOMER, NEW ZEALAND
ALEXANDER ZAKHAROV: PHYSICIST, RUSSIA
ALEXANDER ZAITSEV: ASTRONOMER, RUSSIA
ERNA AKUGINOW: DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER, USA
Erna is a Mongolian Buddhist (and longtime TV
producer of US science documentaries) who feels Genghis Khan has
gotten an undeservedly bad reputation. She has been a producer for
CBS-TV, and has worked with Adrian Malone ("Ascent of Man", "Age
of Uncertainty"), environmental biologist Rene Dubos, and with
astronomer Carl Sagan, on NUCLEUS, which was to be the sequel to
COSMOS. An award-winning writer/producer of PBS's 1991
CHILDHOOD series, she has been Executive in Charge of Production
for PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE, PBSʼs longest running series of
interactive learning adventures, including LIVE FROM MARS, LIVE
FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, LIVE FROM
ANTARCTICA, and many more. She and her long-time producing
partner, Geoff Haines-Stiles, are co-recipients of AGU's 2013 Robert
C. Cowen Award for sustained contributions to Earth and space
science journalism.
CHRISTOPHER AÑORVE: ASTRONOMER, MEXICO
Christopher is an astronomer and computer
programmer. He works at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Space at
the Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa in Mexico. His main
topics of research are about the origins of S0 galaxies. He
is a member of the Association of Astronomy of Sinaloa
(ASA) where he loves to give public talks about Astronomy
and encourage people to do science. His hobbies include
running, learning magic tricks and Asian culture.
CAROLYN BARNETT: FIBRE ARTIST, CANADA
Carolyn is a fibre artist living in Kingston, Ontario.
After mastering traditional hand methods, her techniques have
evolved to use both new and 400 year old technology using the
domestic knitting machines and also the ancient art of felting. She has
kept pace with computer technology to design her own line of clothing.
She also has been active in organizing communities of artists and art
events in Canada and the USA.
JIM BELL: ASTRONOMER, USA
Jim is an astronomer and planetary scientist at
Arizona State University and is the President of The Planetary Society
(TPS). Jimʼs books include "Postcards from Mars", "Moon 3-D", "Mars
3-D", and "The Space Book" Jim is also the lead scientist for the
Pancam color imaging system on the Mars Exploration Rovers. He
has also been a member of the NASA Near-Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Odyssey, Comet Nucleus Tour,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and
Curiosity missions. Jim was the science team liaison for TPS's Red
Rover Goes to Mars student program and the MarsDial education and
outreach project on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
SIMON BELL: PHOTOGRAPHER, CANADA
Simon is a professional photographer; an
expert on stereoscopic imaging; a multi-media producer; and the
photographer who shot the Portrait of Humanity for the Cassini
Mission. His published books range from Chariots of Chrome, about
the classic cars of Cuba, to a series of stereo nature photography
books, called Eye to Eye, that has been successful internationally. He
is currently Executive Director of Focus on Nature, a non-profit
organization that connects children with nature through photography.
www.simonbell.ca
GREGORY BENFORD: PHYSICIST AND AUTHOR, USA
Greg is an American astrophysicist and
science-fiction writer, one of the best-known authors writing in the
"hard science fiction" genre. A professor of Plasma Physics and
Astrophysics at the University of California, Irvine, his work has often
dealt with deep time messages and communications. He is Phi Beta
Kappa, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a fellow of the American Physical
Society and a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has been a consultant for NASA, DOE and the CIA.
gregorybenford.com
JAMES BENFORD: PHYSICIST, USA
Jim is President of Microwave Sciences, which
deals with high power microwave systems from conceptual designs to
hardware. Over the past 45 years of scientific research he has written
145 scientific papers and 6 books on physics topics, including the
textbook, High Power Microwaves, now in its 2nd edition. His current
scientific interest is electromagnetic power beaming for space
propulsion. In earlier decades, he was active in science fiction fandom,
and wrote science fiction in the 1970's.
jamesbenford.com
FARIBA BOGZARAN: ARTIST SCIENTIST, USA
Faribaʼs expertise is in East-West Psychology
and she has taught in the Department of Consciousness Studies and
Art at John F. Kennedy University for over twenty years. She founded
the Dream Studies program at JFKU in 1996, and in 1998 with the
surrealist painter, Gordon Onslow Ford, co-founded an art
organization called Lucid Art Foundation where she is currently the
President and Creative Director. Author of numerous essays on art
and dreams, she is the co-author of two major academic publications,
Extraordinary Dreams (2002) and Integral Dreaming (2012), by State
University of New York Press (SUNY). Both her scientific research
and her artworks are focused on the exploration of lucid dreaming in
particular Hyperspace Lucidity. She lives in San Francisco Bay Area
and the Big Island of Hawaii. www.bogzaran.com
CARINA BÖHM: WRITER, GERMANY
Carina is a writer. Originally from Germany, she
writes in German and English. She is specialised in scriptwriting,
nonlinear storytelling and intercultural communication. For her work
she has been awarded with the Alan Memorial Screenwriting Award.
In 2013 she started to work on creating shows for planetariums, which
she is looking forward to developing further. She has also been
working for web series and creating radio plays. Right now, she is
writing as much as possible trying to establish herself as a young
writer. It is never easy but always a job she loves to do.
DAVID BRIN: AUTHOR SCIENTIST, USA
David Brin is a scientist, tech
speaker/consultant, and author. His new novel about our survival in
the near future is Existence. A film by Kevin Costner was based on
The Postman. His 16 novels, including NY Times Bestsellers and
Hugo Award winners, have been translated into more than twenty
languages. Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and
the world wide web. David appears frequently on shows such as Nova
and The Universe and Life After People, speaking about science and
future trends. His non-fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will
Technology Make Us Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? -- won
the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library
Association. http://www.davidbrin.com/
DENISE BRITO: BIOCHEMIST, MOZAMBIQUE
I am a young Mozambican researcher with a
passion for science. I have a Bachelor and Master of Science degree
in Molecular and Cell Biology with a specialisation in Genetics and
Biochemistry awarded by University of Cape Town, South Africa and
plan on having a long career in genetic research. Currently I work as
researcher at the Biotechnology Centre at Eduardo Mondlane
University (UEM), Mozambique. As part of the Department of Genetic
Characterisation and Biodiversity, I work in fields of Genetic Forensics
and Human Genetics. As recent addition to areas of research within
the institute we are in process of starting Human Genetics research
within Mozambique and hope to make a great contribution to the
development of the country and the world through scientific discovery.
SHELDON BROWN: ARTIST EDUCATOR, USA
Sheldon Brown combines computer science
research with vanguard cultural production. He is the Director of the
Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD where he is
a Professor of Visual Arts and a co-founder of the California Institute
of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Calit2). He is
the former Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the
Arts (CRCA) and he is also the UCSD Site Director of the NSF
supported Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for
Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR).
He has shown his work at: The Museum of Contemporary Art in
Shanghai, The Exploratorium in San Francisco, Ars Electronica in
Linz Austria, The Kitchen in NYC, Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw, Centro
Nacional in Mexico City, Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego, and others. He has also been featured
at leading edge techno-culture conferences such as Supercomputing,
SIGGRAPH, TedX GDC and other conferences of leading edge
techno-culture. He has been commissioned for public artworks in
Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego and Mexico City, and has received
grants from the NSF, AT&T New Experiments in Art and Technology,
the NEA, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, SEGA SAMMY, Sony, Vicon
and others. http://sheldon-brown.net.
DIANA COWERN: SCIENCE EDUCATOR, USA
Dianna is a science communicator and educator.
She received her degree in physics from MIT and works at the
University of California, San Diego as a physics outreach coordinator.
She has worked with several outreach organizations including Better
Education for Women in Science and Engineering and the Reuben H.
Fleet Science center. She also creates content for her YouTube
channel, Physics Girl. http://www.physicsgirl.org/youtube/
ADAM CROWL: ENGINEER, AUSTRALIA
Adam has written essays on SETI for the late
Chris Boyce, on fusion propulsion for “Centauri Dreams”, gas-mining
Uranus for “Discovery News”, and joined “Project Icarus”. Currently he
is Team Leader for “Project Icarus's” Main Propulsion Module.
crowlspace.com
PAUL CURNOW: ASTRONOMY OUTREACH, AUSTRALIA
Paul is a council member of the Astronomical
Society of South Australia and has been a lecturer at the Adelaide
Planetarium since 1992. In 2002, he served as a southern sky
specialist for visiting U.S. and British astronomers who were in
Australia for the total solar eclipse. He is regarded as one of the
worldʼs leading authorities on Australian Aboriginal night sky
knowledge; and in 2004, he worked in conjunction with the Lake Erie
Nature and Science Center Planetarium in Ohio, on the creation of a
show that features Indigenous Australian stories of the night sky.
Since 2012 Paul has taken the role of lecturer for the Astronomy &
Universe course at the University of South Australia. Paul appears
regularly in the media and has authored over 40 articles on astronomy.
sa.apana.org.au/~paulc/index.html
MARIE CUTLIP: ACCOUNTANT, USA
Marie Cutlip is a founding partner in the
accounting firm Better Financial Solutions. She has worked as a CPA
in corporate and public accounting, assisting individuals and
businesses. She is a member and volunteer of the Ohio Society of
CPAS, the American Institution of CPAʼs and FoolProof, a consumer
education organization founded by Will deHoo of Holland. Marie is
dedicated to the financial literacy of young people and adults. She is
an active member in her local community having served on boards of
the American Marketing Association, the Institute of Management
Accountants, and the Planned Giving Advisory committee at Walsh
University. Marie views the study of science and of the physical
nature of the universe as a tool to better know ourselves and a guide
to the betterment of mankind and our planet.
PAUL DE SILVA: MEDIA PRODUCER, CANADA
Paul is a Gemini award winning film and Television
Producer/Director/Writer and Media and Arts and Culture
Educator/Consultant. He is interested in the role representation of diverse
communities plays in individual and national identity formation, citizen
engagement and belonging and social cohesion in diaspora communities.
He is the Co-Director of the International Diaspora Film Festival based in
Toronto, Canada and Executive Producer for A4 One Media Productions,
a multi platform media production company focusing on inter-cultural and
humanitarian issues. He was Project Director for Canada One TV, and
formerly Vice President of Programming for Vision TV and One, The Body
Mind and Spirit Channel. He began his professional career as a Human
Rights officer with the Ontario Human Rights Commission and was a
Communications officer with the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) based in Nairobi, Kenya.
www.diasporafilmfest.com
DANIELA DE PAULIS: ARTIST ITALY/NETHERLANDS
Daniela is a visual artist and lecturer working
with video, installation, performance and has been an active
practitioner since 2001, often collaborating with other artists, scientists
and radio amateurs. Since October 2009 she has been the first artist
in residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope (NL) where she
developed, together with the CAMRAS and ASTRON team, a
technology called Visual Moonbounce, which allows sending images
to the Moon and back as radio signals.
She is currently a PhD student
at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, developing her research on
Visual Moonbounce and Interstellar Transmissions.
Since 2010 she
has been collaborating with the international collective Astronomers
Without
Borders (AWB), as the Project Chair for the AstroArts
programme. www.danieladepaulis.com and www.opticks.info
BOB DERKACH: MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER, CANADA
Bob Derkach is a composer, musician, musical
director, sound designer/engineer/producer working in film, television,
planetariums, multi-media, dance and theatre. Bob served as Musical
Director/Composer for The Second City Theatre mainstages in
Toronto ON, Edmonton AB, and Santa Monica CA from 1981-2006
improvising and creating 46 revues with many esteemed Second City
performers including Ryan Stiles, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short,
Andrea Martin, Robin Duke, Eugene Levy, Mike Myers, among
others. Currently he is the performing Musical Director with Ryan
Stiles' Whose Live Anyway?, Drew Carey's Improv-AGanza!, Monkey Toast--The Improvised Talk Show and Women
Fully Clothed. Bob has also collaborated on several multi-media
projects with Jon Lomberg, Carl Sagan, The Union of Concerned
Scientists and The Planetary Society. Bob's soundscape ʻThe Winds
of Marsʼ opens the Visions of Mars DVD-ROM artifact created by
The Planetary Society, now aboard NASAʼs Phoenix Mars Lander.
www.bobderkach.com
STEPHANE DUMAS: PHYSICIST, CANADA
Stephane has been involved in SETI and METI
since 1999. He is the co-designer of the Evpatoria Message to the
stars of 1999 and 2001 and continueS to work on messages
construction for METI and data analysis for SETI. He is a member of
the IAA SETI Permanent Study Committee. He is also involved in the
development of analysis tools for Digital Signal Processing using the
Karhunen-Leove Transform (KLT). Stephane did some works in the
teledetection of biomarkers using infra-red spectroscopy. He is the
SETI League coordinator for Eastern Canada.
www.activeseti.org
JASON DUNN: SPACE ENTREPRENEUR, USA
Jason is an aerospace engineer and also a
space entrepreneur currently building his second space company,
Made In Space. As Chief Technologist of the company, he is leading
a team to build and fly a 3D Printer on the International Space Station.
Once in operation it will mark the first time in history that humanity has
manufactured off-Earth.
www.whoisjasondunn.com and www.madeinspace.us
BRYAN GAENSLER: ASTRONOMER, AUSTRALIA
Bryan is an award-winning astronomer and
author, who is internationally recognised for his groundbreaking work
on dying stars, interstellar magnets and cosmic explosions. A former
Young Australian of the Year, NASA Hubble Fellow and Harvard
professor, Gaensler is now an Australian Laureate Fellow at The
University of Sydney, and is Director of the Centre of Excellence for
All-sky Astrophysics. His popular astronomy book "Extreme Cosmos"
was published worldwide in 2012, and is now being translated into
nine other languages.
LOLLIE GARAY: SCIENCE TEACHER, USA
Lollie teaches Integrated Middle School Science
at Redd School, Houston Texas. Lollie engages her classrooms in
STEM-rich project based learning and develops After School and
community wide venues in robotics & engineering. She is a published
author and recipient of numerous teaching awards. In 2007 Lollie was
chosen as a PolarTREC Teacher and spent 7 weeks in the Antarctic
Southern Ocean working with an international US/Swedish
oceanographic team. Since then she has continued working
collaboratively with marine scientist Dr. Tish Yager (UGA) on a global
oceans study to translate Dr. Yagerʼs work into a middle school
curriculum. Together they have traveled both to the Arctic Ocean and
the Mid Atlantic Amazon Plume.
MICHAEL A. GARRETT: ASTRONOMER, NETHERLANDS
Mike is General & Scientific Director of ASTRON
(the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astromomy) and full Professor of
Radio Astronomy techniques at the University of Leiden. He is also a
member of the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) Board of Directors and
a former director of JIVE (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe). He has
written well over 80 refereed journal papers, spanning a wide range of
different topics - from studies of compact cosmic objects in our own
galaxy, to investigations of high-redshift systems in the early Universe.
Garrett has a significant interest in SETI research, and is a proponent
of incorporating state-of-the-art technological advances into the next
generation of transformational radio astronomy instruments".
MILES GILSTER: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, USA
Miles Gilster has been working in the computer
technology sector for 15 years as both a technical writer and a
software developer. Prior to that career, he earned a B.S. in Genetics
at UC Davis. Miles has an avid interest in technology and the space
industry in particular, so he is delighted to perform webmaster duties
and social media outreach for the New Horizons Message Initiative.
Miles serves on the Advisory Board of the Tau Zero Foundation and
serves as webmaster and social media director. He also volunteers as
webmaster for Icarus Interstellar and serves on the Public Outreach
and Starship Congress committees. When he's not working on
websites or social media for interstellar organizations, Miles can often
be found playing his bass guitar at extreme volume.
PAUL GILSTER: SPACE TECHNOLOGY WRITER, USA
Paul is a full time writer on aerospace and
technology who specializes in issues related to interstellar flight. He is
the author of Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar
Exploration (Copernicus, 2005) and writer/editor of the Centauri
Dreams website, which tracks work in deep space exploration. In
2006 he joined with Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough
Propulsion Physics project, to create the Tau Zero Foundation.
www.centauri-dreams.org
GAIL GLASPER: ARTIST, AUSTRALIA
Gail is a renowned Adelaide-based cosmic artist and
has had her works exhibited throughout Australia. Her exhibitions
locally have included the Adelaide Festival Fringe, Arts End Gallery,
Middleback Theatre, Red House Gallery and at the 2010 Lake Tyrrell
Star Party, in Sea Lake, Victoria. Gail graduated from the University of
South Australia with a degree in visual arts in 1993. As an artist, she
is interested in the colours and patterns found in the natural world.
Her artworks have been sold throughout Australia and the United
States. In addition to her art expertise, she has a keen interest in
astronomy. She has studied astronomy at the Adelaide Planetarium,
University of South Australia and is a member of the Astronomical
Society of South Australia and the Field Geology Club of South
Australia.
MIGUEL GONÇALVES: TELEVISION HOST, PORTUGAL
Born on the 10th May of 1978 in Portugalʼs
second city, Oporto, for almost 20 years Miguel Gonçalves delivers a
little bit of Cosmos to audiences of all ages. He was accepted at
Sciences Faculty of the University of Oporto as an Astronomy student
but he didnʼt finish his graduation; instead, he followed two of his
greatest passions: books and science communication. He is co-
founder of a Portuguese astronomy divulgation association (1996),
worked for Oporto Planetarium in 1996/97 and he is The Planetary
Society coordinator in Portugal since 1997. Since 2005 he worked in
the book industry, as librarian, events manager and leading the
communication department (and also with editorial responsibilities) in
a publisher from which he resigned in 2012.
For 2 years he had a weekly astronomy & space exploration column
in a national newspaper and since 2011 he coordinates and is the
host of a weekly space magazine TV show in the Portuguese public
television.
DAVID GRINSPOON: ASTROBIOLOGIST, USA
David is the Inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at
the Library of Congress. He is an award-winning author, musician,
NASA advisor, and science team member for several interplanetary
spacecraft including Venus Express and the Mars Science Laboratory.
He has published two books, Venus Revealed and Lonely Planets:
The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life, the latter of which won the 2004
PEN literary award for nonfiction. He is an adjunct professor of
Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado.
www.funkyscience.net
NANETTE GUIFFRIDA: GYMNASTICS COACH, USA
My love and my passion is the art and sport of
gymnastics. I have spent my life in this wonderful sport and through it
have grown to see how amazing human movement is. The mechanics
of human movement and the achievements the body can produce
have become my life's work.
I was a gymnast in the 60's and 70's as the sport was just breaking
ground in the USA. I competed in the sport for 10 years. I started
coaching at age 17 and was able to train under some of the best
coaches in the gymnastics world. I have coached a competitive team
for the last 36 years. I moved to Hawaii in 1989 where I have chosen
to create health and well being through the sport of gymnastics. The
seeming defiance of gravity and fluidity of movement of the body's
function, that defines gymnastics, demonstrates the beauty, agility
and passion of what the human body is capable of achieving.
NALAKA GUNAWARDENE: SCIENCE WRITER, SRI LANKA
Nalaka counts 25 years of experience in
journalism, broadcasting and public science communication in his
native Sri Lanka and at Asian regional level. He has been a reporter,
feature writer, science editor, radio & TV host and a foreign
correspondent. Nalaka has worked as a communications consultant
for UN agencies, international humanitarian organisations and various
development research and advocacy groups.
In 1996, Nalaka co-founded TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) a not-for-profit
media foundation engaged in communicating sustainable
development issues through the media. Nalaka worked with the
science fiction writer and futurist Sir Arthur C Clarke as his principal
research assistant (1987 to 2008). He has travelled widely on work,
visiting over 50 countries. He is a regular speaker at international
conferences on science, society and media
nalakagunawardene.com twitter.com/NalakaG
GEOFF HAINES-STILES: DOCUMENTARY PRODUCER,
USA
Geoff Haines-Stiles was a Senior Producer and
series director on Carl Sagan's COSMOS series. He was
producer/director for Tim Ferris's CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE
(AAAS award for science broadcasting) and wrote, produced and
directed four NOVAs, including IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? with Lily
Tomlin Haines-Stiles was a consulting producer for Alan Lomax's
AMERICAN PATCHWORK on PBS, and has worked closely with
NASA's "New Horizons" mission since 2005, including as
writer/producer/director for two PASSPORT TO PLUTO specials and
an ongoing series of podcasts. He and his long-time producing
partner, Erna Akuginow, are recipients of AGU's 2013 Robert C.
Cowen Award for sustained contributions to Earth and space science
journalism.
CORNELIUS HOLTORF: ARCHAEOLOGIST, SWEDEN
Cornelius is Professor of Archaeology at
Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. He specializes in the role
archaeology and archaeological sites play in the contemporary world,
the archaeology of the contemporary world, and questions of
contemporary heritage management. He is the author of many papers
and of the books "From Stonehenge to Las Vegas" (2005) and
"Archaeology is a Brand!" (2007). Currently he works on projects
about the archaeology of time travel and long-term communication
about final depositories of nuclear waste. For him, joining up
archaeology and astronomy is a dream marriage of two enigmatic
subjects that broaden our horizons in more ways than one.
http://lnu.se/employee/cornelius.holtorf?l=en
STEPHEN HORENSTEIN: COMPOSER, ISRAEL
Stephen is a Faculty member of the Jerusalem
Academy of Music and Dance and Director of the Jerusalem
Institute of Contemporary Music. He has also been connected to
Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a researcher in the field of psychoacoustics and also education and wellness relating to sound and
music.
Horenstein's repertoire of music, including interactive electronic and
mixed-media works, has been performed/recorded in festivals
worldwide (France, Finland, Greece, England, Italy, China, USA,
Switzerland, Israel, most recently Festival D' Ile de France). He has
collaborated with artists including Isamu Noguchi, Steve Paxton,
Kibbutz Dance Company, and others. Horenstein has designed sitespecific works for desert, mountain and urban environments. He has
received numerous awards for his work, including the National
Endowment of the Arts, Covenant Foundation, Weizmann Institute of
Science and most recently the prestigious Israeli Prime Minister's
Prize for Composers (2013). His latest projects research time
perception, live film scores, and audience displacement.
www.stephenhorenstein.com
ED HUTCHINS: COGNITIVE SCIENCTIST, USA
EDWIN HUTCHINS, PH. D. is a Professor
of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego. Originally
trained as a cognitive and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. UCSD,
1978), Professor Hutchins specializes in the study of thinking in realworld settings. Following early work on litigation in Papua New
Guinea and traditional long-distance navigation in Micronesia, he
worked for the US Navy analyzing work practices on the navigation
bridge of large ships and designing computer-based training systems.
This led to the publication in 1995 of his book, Cognition in the Wild.
In 1985 Professor Hutchins was award a prestigious MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship, also known as the MacArthur “genius grant” in
recognition of his accomplishments in documenting the relations of
culture and cognition. Since 1989 Professor Hutchins has focused on
cognition in commercial airline flight decks. Over the past two
decades he has been involved in the design of flight path automation
interfaces, training systems and operating procedures. From 1989
through 2001, Professor Hutchins’ research was funded by NASA’s
Aviation Automation Safety program. In 1999 and 2000 he was a
member of the Airbus Human Factors Audit team. Professor
Hutchins’ most recent aviation research was funded by Boeing’s
Flight Deck Concept Center and concerned the roles of language and
culture in flight deck operations at airlines based outside the US.
While developing tools to accelerate the analysis of video recordings
of flight deck activity, Professor Hutchins began writing computer
vision programs. These automated analysis tools are applicable to
just about any domain that requires the analysis of video recordings of
complex activities. For the past four years, he has been using
computer vision tools to study social interactions among bottlenose
dolphins in captivity and in the wild.
Professor Hutchins is a member of the Flight Safety Foundation’s
Icarus committee. He holds a commercial pilot certificate and is typerated on the Douglas DC3 and Cessna Citation (CE-500) business jet.
AYUMI IIZUKA: PROFESSIONAL ACTOR AND IMPROVISOR,
USA AND CANADA
Ayumi has an Honours Degree Joint Specialist
in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Toronto.
She was an expert computer animator working on high-end CGI for
science documentaries. She is also an improv comedian and was on
the faculty of the legendary Second City in Toronto for 10 years
becoming a multiple Canadian Comedy Award Winner. She now
works in Hollywood and her TV credits include: Parenthood, The
Middle, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Criminal Minds, Mobbed and Degrassi:
The Next Generation
www.aiizuka.com
KIMBERLY A. JAMESON: COGNITIVE SCIENTIST, USA
Kimberly researches vision, especially color
vision, at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences,
University of California, Irvine. She studies individual variation and
universals in human color cognition; the genetic underpinnings of
color perception and perception and comparative investigations of the
ways different cultures name and conceptualize colors. She also
researches the cognitive processing of emotion. She is Principal
Investigator on a project involving transcribing, digitalizing and
archiving of raw data from the 116 languages from the MesoAmerican
Color Survey (MCS). The project aims to produce the largest publicaccessible archive of color categorization data for free use by
researchers world-wide. aris.ss.uci.edu/~kjameson/kjameson.html
NIKOLAI S. KARDASHEV: ASTRONOMER, RUSSIA
Nikolai is a major pioneer in Russian SETI
who devised a system that bears his name which describes different
types of possible ET societies. From 1954 to 1967 worked in
Shternberg astronomical institute of MSU. From 1967 till 1990 he
worked at the Institute of Space Research of the USSR Academy of
Sciences, as a deputy director from 1977 till 1990. In 1976 he was
elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. Since
1990, he has worked at Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of
Sciences as a head Astro Space Center. In 1994 he was elected an
academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1990
Nikolay Kardashev is a member of the European Academy of
Sciences, and since 1991 a member of the International Academy of
Astronautics and the American Astronomical Society.
KAORU KIMURA: ASTRONOMY OUTREACH, JAPAN
Kaoru is an astronomy outreach
specialist. She is based at the Tokyo Science Museum in Japan but
works internationally. She is part of the Stars at Yerkes astronomy
outreach project in Illinois.
PENNEY KOME: WRITER, CANADA
Penney is an award-winning author and
journalist, based in Calgary since 1987. She has published six nonfiction books with major Canadian and US publishers. She wrote a
national (Canadian) column for twelve years and a local (Calgary)
column for four, in addition to penning hundreds of newspaper and
magazine articles. She entered the digital age in 1993, with the
Calgary Freenet, and subsequently edited an important online
newsmagazine for nine years. She served five years on National
Council of The Writersʼ Union of Canada, the last year as National
Chair, and seven years on the Board of Access Copyright, again
finishing up as Co-Chair. She has been listed in the Canadian Whoʼs
Who since 1988.
DAN KRECH: PRODUCER, CANADA
Dan Krech utilizes decades of industry
knowledge and expertise to lead several production companies in the
development of multiple small and large scale projects. These
projects include; animated, live-action, VFX, feature films, TV series
and straight to DVD content. He continues to utilize the most
advanced technologies to develop exceptional, recognizable
productions. Dan has built numerous studios from the ground up.
Having become an expert in studio start-up, he is currently overseeing
two Studios: Awesometown Entertainment and Muskoka Animation
Studio Huntsville. Krech remains an indelible leader, business man,
innovator, and heavy hitter in the CGI industry.
www.awesometownent.ca
RYAN LAI: MUSICIAN, USA
Ryan Lai is an amateur violist and
craftsman specializing in the repair and restoration of violin, viola and
string bass bows. He founded Ryan Lai Bow Care in 2009 through
which he personally provides bow care services to string instrument
students, amateurs, and professionals throughout the San Francisco
Bay Area. Ryan trained with Karl Roy in violin building at the Violin
Craftsman Institute in Thousand Oaks, CA. Ryan later studied with
master craftsperson Lynn Hannings at the Violin Craftsman Institute in
Durham, NH, where he further developed and upgraded his bow
rehairing and repairing skills. Ryan has become deeply involved in
the communities of string players. He is an active participant in
amateur chamber music ensembles, community symphony
orchestras, and chamber music workshops in the U.S. and in Europe.
www.ryanlaibowcare.com
TERESA LARSEN: DATA VISUALIZATION ARTIST, USA
Terri is an award-winning producer and
animator, promotes science advocacy and the importance of clear,
accurate, and intuitive data visualization. She has developed a
graduate level course in scientific visualization and adapted it for
online delivery. She has a textbook in preparation. She speaks often
at conferences and public venues on the importance of scientific
literacy and empowering individuals to make educated decisions
based.
PAMELA LEE: ARTIST, USA
Pamela was invited to join the NASA Art Program
for Discovery's launch in 1985. In 1986, she was invited to tour
space and cultural facilities throughout Russia, Ukraine and Georgia
with the Young Astronauts/Young Cosmonauts Exchange. In Star
City, she was privileged to present her Young Astronauts Council
commissioned painting to the director of the Yuri Gagarin Museum.
In 1989, she attended the Association of Space Explorers Congress
in Rihyad, Saudi Arabia as one of four invited artist/exhibitors. She
facilitated the first artist exchange between the NASA and
Intercosmos fine arts programs. In 1991, as a member of the NASA
art team, she attended a manned Soyuz TM-13 launch from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome. Two of her miniatures were flown aboard a
NASA space shuttle in 1985 and another painting on parachute silk
aboard the Soviet Space Station MIR in 1991. These were used to
query astronauts about the difference between true colors, as seen
from orbit, and colors based on photo reference.
GUILLERMO LEMARCHAND: ASTRONOMY, ARGENTINA
Guillermo is South Americaʼs leading
researcher in SETI and has done extensive research in this field. He
is Consultant, Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
Paris. Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)
Director Southern SETI Programme in Argentina (1996-2011).
AARON LEVINE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER, N. IRELAND
Some time after obtaining a physics PhD, Aaron
moved into software, initially speech recognition, and then for the last
two decades within telecommunications, including the mobile internet
from its very earliest days. Coming from Belfast, he's seen peace
prevail over terror, and believes the New Horizons Message, and
space in general, can help widen minds away from petty hatreds. He
enjoys the simple pleasures, the birds chirping on a crisp morning, the
waves lapping gently on the beach, and the always heart-felt beauty
of a clear starry night. Inspired by the likes of Umberto Eco's "The
Search for the Perfect Language", Aaron's major passion is Esperanto,
for a future with high quality linguistically diverse international
communications, and has worked with EU groups, machine
translation, character encodings, and a nascent Esperanto television
website. http://lingvo.org
ALBERT YU-MIN LIN: RESEARCH SCIENTIST, USA
Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin is a Research Scientist at
the University of California, San Diego and an Emerging Explorer of
the National Geographic Society in the field of technology enabled
exploration.
He has founded and directed numerous programs including the UC
San Diego, National Geographic Engineers for Exploration Program,
the Exploration Lab, the Distributed Health Labs and the international
effort known as the Valley of the Khans Project. Based at the
California Institute of Telecommunications and Information
Technology (Calit2) at UC San Diego he pushes the limits of field
based research.
His team's use of digital media to perform massive satellite data
analytics through crowd sourcing (recognized with the 2011 United
States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Academic Achievement
award) has been emulated for applications ranging from emergency
response to humanitarian monitoring.
Read more about his work at: http://albertyuminlin.com/About.php
IVAN LINSCOTT: PHYSICIST, NEW HORIZONS, USA
Ivan is a Senior Research Associate at Stanford
University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and affiliation in
Aeronautics and Astronautics. He worked on NASA’s Mars Odyssey
and Mars Polar Lander missions. He is currently Project Manager for
the Stanford payload on the Air Force sponsored DSX Mission to
study resonant scattering of plasma waves, and Project Manager for
VBPM, a second Air Force payload, both earth orbiting experiments.
He is further a member of the hypervelocity impact plasma-EMP
experiments using ground-based and space-based facilities.
FELIX J. LOCKMAN: RADIO-ASTRONOMER, USA
Jay is an astronomer at the National Radio
Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV, where he is the Green
Bank Telescope Principal Scientist. He has been the Director of the
Green Bank Observatory and a Councilor of the American
Astronomical Society. He is a recognized expert on the interstellar
medium of the Milky Way. He recently edited the book "But it was
Fun: the first 40 years of radio astronomy at Green Bank."
In addition to his research, he is involved in educational activities and
travels widely giving non-technical talks on astronomy to diverse
audiences.
science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/people/Jay%20Lockman
JON LOMBERG: ARTIST, USA
Jon was Carl Saganʼs Emmy Award winning
Chief Artist on COSMOS, animation designer for the film CONTACT,
Nuclear Winter, and many other projects. He was Design Director on
the Voyager Record, working under Frank Drake, with whom he
designed a portrait of Earth in photos and diagrams. He was Project
Director for the Planetary Societyʼs Visions of Mars DVD, now on
Mars aboard Phoenix. He also was co-designer of the Marsdials
carried aboard 3 NASA rovers, for a total of four pieces now on Mars.
For 20 years he made award-winning radio documentaries for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and he writes and blogs
frequently about SETI and space issues. Near his home in Hawaii he
created the Galaxy Garden, the worldʼs first large-scale explorable
model of the Milky Way Galaxy realized as a 30m diameter flower
garden. www.jonlomberg.com and www.galaxygarden.net
SHARONA LOMBERG: ARTIST, USA
Sharona is Business Manager of Galaxy
Garden Enterprises. She is also an artist, runner, silk-painter, teacher,
and community activist who won a Best-in-State award for the MakeA-Difference-Day charity events she organized with children in Hawaii.
Among her many accomplishments are creating a large silk hanging
to cover the Ark for Temple Emmanuel in Honolulu and earning a Pink
Cadillac as a Mary Kay sales representative. Born in Israel of
Yemenite heritage, she lives in Hawaii.
DAVID MALIN: ASTROPHOTOGRAPHER, AUSTRALIA
David has been involved in scientific imaging
all his working life. He worked for 26 years at the Australian
Astronomical Observatory as photographic scientist and astronomer.
There he developed hypersensitising processes which can give
enormous gains in speed to the photographic materials that were
used in astronomy. He also invented new ways of revealing
information on astronomical plates, a specialty which has given him
an international reputation. David Malin's contributions to
photographic science and astronomy have received international
recognition, including honorary degrees from two Australian
universities. He is now Adjunct Professor of Scientific Photography at
RMIT University in Melbourne. www.davidmalin.com
ETIENNE MARTINACHE: ENGINEER, FRANCE
Etienne counts thirty years of experience in
marine electrical engineering, specialized in electric propulsion drives
of large cruise ships. A space exploration enthusiast, he has spent a
part of his spare time in translating Robert Zubrinʼs books into french
(The Case for Mars, First Landing, Entering Space ...). An admirer of
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, among other visionaries, he thinks that “Earth is
the cradle of mankind but one cannot stay in the cradle forever”
(Constantin Tsiolkovsky), “the solar system will be mankindʼs
kindergarten” (Arthur C. Clarke) and “when mankind has finally grown
up we shall reach for the stars” (Anonymous)
LORI MARINO: NEUROSCIENTIST, CETACEAN EXPERT
Lori Marino is a neuroscientist and expert in
animal behavior and intelligence who has been on the faculty at
Emory University for 19 years. She is also the Founder and Executive
Director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and Science
Director for The Nonhuman Rights Project. She is internationally
known for her work on the evolution of brain and intelligence in
dolphins and whales and comparisons to primates and has (co)
authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and magazine articles. Lori
has also been closely involved with the SETI and astrobiology
community, publishing and presenting on the evolution of intelligence
and consulting on numerous projects. Lori considers herself a
scientist-advocate, for other animals and continues to advise on a
number of legal and public campaigns for animal rights and protection.
She is also very interested in the ethical dimensions of extraterrestrial
exploration and contact. www.kimmela.org
REVITAL MAROM: BUSINESS CONSULTANT, FRANCE
Revital is a specialist in Market and Insight
for the Information and Communication Technology (ITC) sector.
Revital worked with and held senior positions in Strategy and
Marketing with global companies such as IBM, Nokia, Siemens,
Cossette Communication, Ericsson and lately Alcatel-Lucent. At ALU
Revital is the head of Market and Consumer Insight where she
developed and spearheaded across ALU the notion of Tell and SellCapture your customers through story telling from the “real world”.
Revital is an invited guest speaker in many global Telecom and IT
related conferences to mention ITU, Broadband World Forum,
IT Women forums, India strategy, Mobile World Forum and more.
Revital's recent publication is the book "Opportunities without
Borders" looking at the phenomenon of Neu Urbanization in India and
the role of Information and Communication Technology.
DAVID MARTINEZ-DELGADO: ASTRONOMER, SPAIN
David is an astronomer working at the
Zentrum fur Astronomie of the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He
was awarded with the Alexander Humboldt Foundation Fellow for
Advance Research in 2010 at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomy
for his project on stellar tidal streams. He has also worked in the
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) for more than 10
years. For the recent years, he has focused his research on the tidal
destruction of dwarf galaxies in the halos of the Milky Way and other
nearby spiral galaxies. Currently, he is leading the Stellar Tidal
Stream Survey, a project in collaboration with a team of top amateur
astrophotographers, a project with outstanding public outreach. He
also has a large number of international collaborations with leading
groups on galaxy evolution in Europe and USA. He was also serving
as the coordinator of Spanish Professional-Amateur Collaboration for
the Spanish Astronomical Society until 2012.
BOB MCDONALD: SCIENCE JOURNALIST, CANADA
Bob is the best known science journalist in
Canada. He has been the host of the CBCʼs popular science series
Quirks and Quarks longer than any other host. He also starred in
Wonderstruck, a popular childrenʼs TV program about science. He is
the author of the book Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Science as
Iʼve Seen It. He was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2012 for his
contributions to science education and journalism.
IAN MCLENNAN: DESIGN CONSULTANT, CANADA
Ian McLennan has guided the design and
operation of science museums, planetariums, cultural centers, World
Expositions, and similar events across the globe. With extensive
experience in many countries, he understands the difficulty of
conceiving, designing, managing, and completing large projects on an
international scale. With special expertise in observational and
planetarium astronomy, he brings unusual depth in envisioning any
project involving the Cosmos.
JEFFREY MORRIS: ARTIST, USA
Jeff is a creative entrepreneur and art
director with a strong interest in science and aerospace, Mr. Morris
has designed educational / public outreach campaigns, events, and
websites for clients such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
Lockheed Martin. He also has worked as a producer and director of
commercials, music videos, and documentaries for clients such as
Delta Airlines, and the Boys & Girls Club of America. He is the holder
of a pending technology patent for multiple Apple iOS
applications and has published graphic novels, children’s books, and
award–winning science curricula. Recent works includes his 2012
graphic novel Venus: Daedalus One™ and the 2009 illustrated
screenplay, Slingshot™, which featured a foreword by Buzz Aldrin.
futuredudestudios.com
LOUIS NARENS: MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, USA
Louis is Professor in the Department of
Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Logic and the Philosophy
of Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is one of the major
exponents of measurement theory in mathematical psychology. He
has also worked on SETI issues and a design for a 10,000 year
warning marker for nuclear waste for Sandia Laboratories.
aris.ss.uci.edu/%7Elnarens/narens.html
TIBOR PACHER: PHYSICIST, HUNGARY
Tibor has worked on different topics of
General Relativity, Cosmology and Quantum Chemistry (University of
Heidelberg) as well as on ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)
mission (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg). In 2006, he
initiated the organization "peregrinus interstellar", dedicated to the
topic of interstellar travel: The PI Club. Tibor also runs the project
Faces from Earth which focuses on creating interstellar message
artifacts to be carried on future deep space missions, and
MiniSpaceWorld which aims at the creation of a big, lively scalemodel layout for Spaceflight and Astronomy. Additionally, he serves
as a consultant for Project Icarus, a theoretical starship study.
Currently his main focus is to lead his Hungarian Google Lunar
XPRIZE Team Puli Space to the Moon.
www.pulispace.com/en/who-we-are/team
DERRICK PITTS: ASTRONOMER, USA
Derrick is chief astronomer and Fels
Planetarium Director at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and also
served as museum vice president. In 2002, he oversaw the
renovation of The Franklin Instituteʼs Fels Planetarium and played an
integral role in the design of the new astronomy exhibit, ʻSpace
Command.ʼ One year later, he served as the United States
spokesperson for the International Year of Astronomy He has
appeared on many national television shows as a science expert
including the Comedy Channelʼs “Colbert Report”. Pitts served as a
regular contributor on Current TVʼs Countdown with Keith Olberman
as well as programs on CNN International and MSNBC.
PETER POULSEN: ECONOMIST, KINGDOM OF TONGA
Peter was born in Kenya to Danish and English
parents. He holds British, Australian and Tonga nationalities. He has
lived and worked in many parts of the world as a development
economist, seeking to help improve the ability of governments and
communities to find viable solutions for improving the wellbeing of
their people. Peter has been an avid science (rather than fantasy)
fiction reader for many years. As a child he stayed up all night to
watch the blurred black and white TV pictures of the first humans to
step on the moon. While we have plenty of challenges on Earth, he is
disappointed at the limited progress that we have made with space
exploration in the decades since this momentous ʻsmall stepʼ. Peter is
excited about this New Horizons initiative, both for what it can do to
bring people together on Earth, and to help us to positively project
ourselves out into the great cosmos.
PEKKA RAUTAJOKI: ASTRONOMY OUTREACH, FINLAND
Pekka has been popularizing astronomy via
lectures and articles for over a decade, both through Finnish
astronomy associations and through his company, Galileo Galilei
Consulting. Pekka headed Tampereen Ursa, one of the largest
astronomy associations in Finland, between 2005 and 2010, and is
still actively involved in promoting astronomy and scientific thinking as
an executive of the association. He is an experienced observer, and
often acts as a night sky guide for the general public at the Tampere
Observatory. Pekka has successfully combined art and astronomy
through several projects, including the designing and painting of the
60 meters long space-themed mural at the Tampere Observatory, and
building a replica of Galileo Galileiʼs telescope for the activities during
the International Year of Astronomy.
ULF-DIETRICH REIPS: INTERNET SCIENTIST, GERMANY
Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a full professor in the
Faculty of Sciences at the University of Konstanz, where he holds the
Chair for Psychological Methods, Assessment, and iScience. For
more than two decades he has been working on Internet-based
research methodologies (or Internet science), the psychology of the
Internet, measurement, development, the cognition of causality,
personality, privacy, Social Media, crowdsourcing, and Big Data. In
1994, he founded the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, the first
laboratory for conducting real experiments on the World Wide Web.
His 2002 article "Standards for Internet-based experimenting" in the
journal Experimental Psychology defined the field. Reips was elected
the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in
Psychology (SCiP) and he is the founding editor of the International
Journal of Internet Science. He has worked, lived, and studied in
California, Colorado, Israel, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK.
In 2014, Ulf was ranked 7th of "Top Scientists working at Spanish
Private Universities" by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas, Spain.
Ulf and his team develop and provide free Web tools for researchers,
teachers, students, and the public. They received numerous awards
for their Web applications (available from the iScience Server at
http://iscience.eu/) and methodological work serving the research
community.
In 1996 Ulf won in the First Internet Literature competition in Germany,
co-organized by the German weekly Die Zeit and IBM with his digital
poem "Das Websonett", a digital media variation and sonetto di
risposta on A.W. Schlegel's "Das Sonett".
In his spare time, Ulf enjoys family life with wife, daughter, and their
two cats in Switzerland, swimming, Katamaran sailing, soccer, and
playing the French game of Boules.
WILLIE ROBINSON: SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATOR, USA
Willie is public school science teacher in New
Jersey working with minority communities. He specializes in involving
students with planetary exploration and has created events around
NASA Mars missions and others.
ANDRES ELOY MARTINEZ ROJAS: LAWMAKER, MEXICO
Andres Eloy Martinez Rojas is a Mexican
lawmaker serving as secretary of the Science and Technology
Committee of the House of Deputies of the Mexican Congress. He is
a citizen scientist and amateur astronomer. He is President of the
Urania Astronomical Society, through which scientific work performed
disclosure. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union appointed a
Crater on Mars as Jojutla, as suggested by him. As a citizen scientist,
he is co-discoverer of two dwarf planets in the framework of the "New
Horizons" Mission planets. He also writes about science in
newspapers and magazines and participates in radio and television
programs on scientific issues.
EDUARDO RUBIO-HERRERA: ASTRONOMER,
GUATEMALA
Eduardo is a native Guatemalan astronomer.
After his graduate studies he had the opportunity to visit the Institute
for Advanced Studies in Princeton New Jersey to undertake a short
project on gamma–ray bursts under supervision of E. Ramíez-Ruiz. In
2010 he completed a PhD in astronomy at the University of
Amsterdam in The Netherlands with B.W. Stappers as
supervisor. After completing a postdoctoral position at UNAM, he is
currently teaching astronomy and physics at two Universities in
Guatemala City. The results of the projects of research in which he
has collaborated have been published in different international
journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
and Astronomy & Astrophysics, and have also been presented during
conferences and meetings held in Central America, Czech Republic,
Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, Thailand and the USA. Eduardo
enjoys doing outreach activities with amateurs and the general public
and contributes with a section about astronomy in the Guatemalan
newspaper Siglo XXI since 2009.
IVO SAVIANE: ASTRONOMER, CHILE
Ivo has held positions at Padova,
UCLA, and European Southern Observatory (ESO). He became staff
astronomer at the La Silla Observatory, where he was instrument
scientist of a number of optical and infrared instruments. He was
promoted head of science operations in 2007, and two years later he
moved to the Paranal Observatory to be instrument scientist of
FORS2 and then KMOS at the VLT. In 2013 he was appointed site
manager of the La Silla Observatory. His main interest is galaxy
evolution, which he studies by analyzing star and cluster formation
histories, and by measuring abundances of the interstellar medium.
Currently he is leading a project to determine the mass-metallicity
relation of star-forming galaxies and its evolution with redshift.
PAUL SHUCH: ENGINEER/EDUCATOR, USA
Paul is generally credited with the design of the
world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver. He served as
Technical Director and Chairman of the Board of Project OSCAR Inc.,
designers and builders of the first non-Government communications
satellites. He holds patents in the areas of airborne radar and phased
array antennas, taught physics, electronics, and aeronautics at
various colleges and universities for more three decades, and spent
eighteen years as Executive Director (now Emeritus) of The SETI
League, Inc., an international educational and scientific nonprofit
corporation. www.AvSport.org and drseti.org
DOUG SIMONS: ASTRONOMER, USA
Doug began working in 1990 as a staff astronomer
at the Canada-France- Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT) for 4 years. Doug
then joined the Gemini Telescope in May of 1994 as the Systems
Scientist. He managed Gemini's instrument development program for
5 years before becoming Gemini's Director from 2006-2011. Doug
returned to CFHT in 2012 where he now serves as Executive Director.
Principal areas of interest include infrared instrumentation and studies
of the Galactic center, low mass stars, and star formation regions.
ANNA SODARI: ARTIST/POET, USA
Grand-daughter of Francisca Sodari, famous
curandera (healer) in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. I am part Yaqui
and Apache. Early retired with bi-polar disorder which gave me plenty
of time to learn about the cosmos. Artist, poet and sci-fi
writer. Volunteered with juvie kids at Mary's Mission Development
Center in town doing art and tutoring algebra. Enjoy gardening and
use classical music all day long to stay in zen. Enjoy researching
history, science, the humanities and people on the internet. Love the
shinto magic of biological life on planet earth and how we might mirror
other worlds or not. Love to think that one day we might win the war
against abject poverty around the globe and how that might open
doors for that many more people to be in tune with the
cosmos. Thought begets discovery!
CONRAD STEENKAMP: WRITER, SOUTH AFRICA
Conrad is an award-winning author, social
anthropologist, and environmental scientist. A business school
professor and consultant in the environment and development sectors,
he has lived and worked in Europe, North America, the Middle East,
and throughout Africa. He is an archaeology, history, and astronomy
enthusiast and believes that humankindʼs destiny lies in space.
http://conradsteenkamp.wordpress.com/
ALAN STERN: PLANETARY SCIENTIST, USA
Alan Stern was NASA's associate administrator
for the Science Mission Directorate. He is currently an Associate Vice
President at the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and
Engineering Division. Stern is a planetary scientist and an author who
has published more than 220 technical papers and 40 popular
articles. He has a long association with NASA, serving on the NASA
Advisory Council and as the principal investigator on a number of
planetary and lunar missions, including the New Horizons PlutoKuiper Belt mission. Stern earned a doctorate in astrophysics and
planetary science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1989.
TATIANA STOMAKHINA: ARTIST AND POET, ESTONIA
Tatiana left Russia for Estonia in 2009. She
studied at Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University, and is
currently working as a planetarist at Energy Discovery Center in
Tallinn. Her work has been exhibited at the MÄSU gallery (Nov.
2010), the Estonian Jewish Community (Dec. 2010), the Soo-Soo
Gallery (March 2011), TASE-2011 (June 2011), the Children Gallery
Kullo (Nov. 2011); Niguliste Church – during the XXVI Tallinn
International Organ Festival (Aug. 2012), and Tallinn University (Apr.
2013).
WOODY SULLIVAN: ASTRONOMER, USA
Woody Sullivan, Professor of Astronomy at the
University of Washington in Seattle, has been involved in SETI for
four decades, including the NASA effort from 1980 to 1993. His focus
has been on analyzing the best strategies to use in searching for
radio waves from another technical civilization. He made the first
detailed calculations of the leaking radio waves from Earth's
civilization and was one of the founders of the seti@home project. He
created the first "Earth at Night" image in the 1980s, and was a key
member of the team that created MarsDials (sundials) for the NASA
rovers Spirit and Opportunity. He was a founder of the University of
Washington's pioneering graduate program in Astrobiology, and its
director for many years; this led to the graduate textbook Planets and
Life: The Emerging Field of Astrobiology (2007, edited with John
Baross). He has also taught and researched the history of science,
which led to the book Cosmic Noise: A History of Early Radio
Astronomy (2009).
www.astro.washington.edu/users/woody/
JILL TARTER: ASTRONOMER, USA
Jill holds the Bernard Oliver Chair for SETI at the
SETI Institute. She has worked on a number of major scientific
projects, most relating to the search for extraterrestrial life. As a
graduate student, she worked on the radio-search project SERENDIP.
She was project scientist for NASA's High Resolution Microwave
Survey (HRMS) in 1992 and 1993 and subsequently director of
Project Phoenix (HRMS reconfigured) under the auspices of the SETI
Institute. She was co-creator with Margaret Turnbull of the HabCat in
2002, a principal component of Project Phoenix. Tarter has published
dozens of technical papers and lectures extensively both on the
search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the need for proper science
education. She is credited with coining the term "brown dwarf" for the
classification of stars with insufficient mass to sustain hydrogen fusion.
www.seti.org/users/jill-tarter
DAVID S. TATEL: FEDERAL JUDGE, USA
David is a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
His father, Dr. Howard E. Tatel, designed the first 85-foot telescope at
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and that dish is named in
his honor. In 1960, Dr. Frank Drake used the Tatel Telescope in the
first search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Project Ozma. David is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Science,
Technology, and Law, and the American Philosophical Society.
NANCY TASHIMA: SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATOR, USA
Nancy Tashima taught Physical Science and
Aerospace Studies at Konawaena High School for 22 years. Since
1991, she has continued her teaching career as the Curator and
Informal Educator at the Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Space
Center. Her dedication to space education has allowed her to present
teacher workshops at several National Science Teachers Association
conferences. Additionally, Nancy is involved in many public outreach
events promoting space education and STEM activities for students
and their teachers.
EMILIANO TERÁN-BOBADILLA: PHYSICIST, MEXICO
Emiliano is a physicist with great passion onto
astronomy. He works in the Department of Physics at the Universidad
Autónoma de Sinaloa (UAS) in Mexico. He was a member of the
founding committee of the bachelor program in astronomy from UAS
and is currently a member of the Association of Astronomy of Sinaloa
(Asociación Sinaloense de Astronomía). His main topics of research
in astronomy are related to meteorites and Mayan astronomy. This
has led him to become involved in a bunch of activities related to this
exciting branch of science, ranging from academic competitions in
astronomy to the delivery of scientific talks, along with the
strengthening of various astronomical activities of his community.
CRISTINA RUIZ TORRENTE: ARCHITECT, SPAIN
Cristina is an architect. She has founded
together with another architect, Rafael Martin Úbeda, an architectural
office in Madrid where she combines the development of projects and
works, and research works in the fields of architecture, urbanism and
other disciplines, with collaborations in a platform that brings closer
architecture to a majority of the public, and a digital magazine with
cultural and artistic circulation and promotion. She also carries out
works related to urban planning with a company that collaborates with
the City Hall of Madrid. With Rafael, she has also created and
developed 'HUMAN FILE PROJECT', a free archive of all human
beings, with the objective of puting faces on humanity and knowing
the personal stories of all people who have ever lived on this planet,
so that Humanity and all human beings will cease to be just a figure in
the statistics, and so finally know themselves, irregardless of of their
personal or professional achievements, creating second by second, a
security file copy of the Humanity.
RAFAEL MARTIN ÚBEDA: ARCHITECT, SPAIN
Rafael is an architect, with Master in Urban &
Regional Planning, a professor in Graduate School on Urban
Planning in the University of St. Paul CEU in Madrid, and a member
of Graduate School Board on Final Projects. He has founded together
with another architect, Cristina Ruiz Torrente, an architectural office in
Madrid where he combines the development of projects and works,
and research works in the fields of architecture, urbanism and other
disciplines, with collaborations in a platform that brings closer
architecture to a majority of the public, and a digital magazine with
cultural and artistic circulation and promotion. With Cristina, he has
also created and developed 'HUMAN FILE PROJECT', a free Archive
of all human beings, with the objective of putting faces on humanity
and knowing the personal stories of all people who have ever lived on
this planet, so that Humanity and all human beings will cease to be
just a figure in the statistics, and so finally know themselves,
irregardless of their personal or professional achievements, creating
second by second, a security file copy of the Humanity.
YUAN WANG: MARINE BIOLOGIST, USA
A marine biologist and aquaculturist, Yuan has
work all over the world, including Ecuador, Mexico, Thailand, and
Indonesia. He is now an independent businessman but still engaged
in the marine sciences field.
HUIMIN QIN WARBUS: BUSINESS CONSULTANT, USA
Huimin lives in Hilo, Hawaii and is an
independent China Consultant. She worked for more than a decade
as an international business development manager in China and
Southeast Asia region. Currently working for International Lunar
Observatory Association and other astronomy related projects in Big
Island of Hawaii.
MARK WASHBURN: SCIENCE WRITER AND NOVELIST,
USA
Mark wrote two definitive accounts of planetary
exploration, Mars At Last! (1977) and
Distant Encounters: The Exploration of Jupiter and Saturn (1983).
He has written for a Time/Life series of science books and was a
Contributing Editor, “A History of the 20th Century Earth for the Future
Human Inhabitants of Mars” Visions of Mars DVD, now on Mars. He
has also published 4 science fiction novels.
LAURA WELCHER: LINGUIST, USA
Laura Welcher is a linguist who specializes in
the documentation of endangered languages and works to preserve
and promote the world’s rich linguistic and cultural heritage. She is
currently the Director of Operations for the Long Now Foundation, a
non-profit organization working to encourage societal long-term
thinking in the framework of the next 10,000 years. At Long Now, she
directs The Rosetta Project, working to build a digital collection of
information on all the world’s ~7,000 languages, and The Rosetta
Disk, an analog backup of the collection that can last for thousands of
years. An early prototype of the Rosetta Disk is on board the Rosetta
ESA mission craft that is orbiting with comet 67P. Laura is excited to
have advisory role in the One Earth Message, and to have the
opportunity to further explore the fascinating domain of exolinguistics.
PHIL YOCK: ASTRONOMER, NEW ZEALAND
Phil worked on the early gauge theories of
particle physics in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s he co-founded
a collaboration in astrophysics between Japan and New Zealand
which persists to the present day under the banner MOA. The MOA
group developed techniques to utilize Einsteinʼs gravitational
microlensing technique. MOA uses the worldʼs largest telescope
dedicated to microlensing at the Mt John observatory in NZ, and a
suite of more than twenty telescopes around the globe for follow-up
observations. The MOA group found the first exoplanet by
microlensing, and subsequently assisted the discovery of several
further exoplanets, mostly cool planets orbiting stars beyond their
snowlines. They also found a large population of free-floating or rogue
exoplanets in the Galaxy.
LEILEHUA YUEN: CULTURAL PRACTITIONER, USA
Leilehua is a traditional Hawaiian Cultural
Practitioner and specializes in teaching the sciences through
traditional cultural arts such as hula and chant. Many of Hawaiiʼs most
ancient stories, chants, and dances describe geological, astronomical,
meteorological, and oceanographic phenomena, and specific events,
with great detail and accuracy. Working with various scientific and
business entities, Yuen has helped to facilitate inter-cultural dialog in
multi-cultural workplaces and conferences. In addition to a variety of
other activities, she and her husband, Manu Josiah, host a monthly
Hawaiian culture and science program at the Ellison Onizuka Center
for International Astronomy on Mauna Kea. They also provide
programs for the National Park Service, Lyman House Museum, East
Hawai`i Cultural Center and Museum of Modern Art, the Palace
Theater, Volcano Art Center, and in local schools.
www.KaaheleHawaii.com
ALEXANDER ZAKHAROV: PHYSICIST, RUSSIA
Alexander is a researcher on space physics,
working at the Space Research Institute, Moscow. His main science
interests are space plasma, space dust, Mars and its moons. He has
been a Member of International Academy of Astronautics since 1994.
ALEXANDER ZAITSEV: ASTRONOMER, RUSSIA
Dr. Alexander Zaitsev is a Chief Scientist of the
Radio Engineering and Electronics Institute, Russian Academy of
Science. His career has been marked by three major areas of
interest: First, radar devices used in the study of Venus, Mars, and
Mercury, particularly direct digital synthesizers of coherent radar
signals (the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation, 1981). Second, nearEarth asteroid radar research (the subject of his DPhil dissertation,
1997). Dr. Professor Zaitsev has been able to successfully conduct
international radar astronomy research projects with Europe, the
United States and Japan. In 1992, he led a team of radar astronomers
who successfully tracked the asteroid 4179 Tautatis. This was the first
non-U.S. asteroid radar experiment. Third - interstellar radio
messaging (1998 -- 2012). He supervised the transmission of the
1999 and 2003 Cosmic Calls from Evpatoria Planetary Radar, Crimea.
In addition, under his leadership, a youth group in Moscow composed
and broadcast a very moving Teen Age Message to ETI, including a
beautiful "Theremin Concert for Aliens." A pioneer in active SETI, he
coined the acronym METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence),
and dialogs extensively with both proponents and critics of this
admittedly controversial activity. In 1995 the International
Astronomical Union named the asteroid number 6075 as "Zajtsev".