Stephen Bell
Stephen Bell is a Senior Staff Engineer at The University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Laboratory. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho and his M.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Arizona. Since 1984, he has directed the Electronic Engineering development lab in the Space Sciences Building on the UA campus. The lab has designed and built a variety of scientific instrumentation for ground and space-based research. Notable achievements include building portions of the electronics for the Mars Pathfinder camera and designing electronics for the Mars Polar lander and several Shuttle instruments. From 1979-1984, Mr. Bell held a Group leader position at Hughes Aircraft, Tucson, responsible for design and fabrication of missile test & simulation equipment. From 1973 to 1979, he was a private consultant, and from 1971- 1973 he headed up Bell Engineering, a custom equipment fabricator.
Charles Curtis
Dr. Charles Curtis is a Research Associate Professor of Physics at The University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Arizona in 1978. He has since specialized in the development of spacecraft instrumentation used for the detection of low energy neutral atoms. He designed the FIS and EIS sensors for the Neutral Gas Experiment on the Russian VEGA mission to Comet Halley, and participated in the development of the ISENA instrument launched on the ill-fated SAC-B spacecraft. He is currently project manager for the EUV instrument under development for NASA S IMAGE spacecraft.
Roger Davies
Dr. Roger Davies is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at The University of Arizona. He received a B.Sc. (hons) in physics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1976. He joined the faculty of The University of Arizona in 1995, and was previously a faculty member of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), and before that the Geoscwiences Department of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). Dr. Davies' research involves satellite remote sensing of clouds, especially mulitiangle remote sensing and studies of cloud heterogeneity. He is a member of the International Radiation Commission and former team member of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment. Currently he is on the Science Team of MISR, a mulitiangle spectroradiometer to be flown on the EOS-am satellite, scheduled for launch in mid-1999. Additional biographical information is available in Who's Who in America.
Uwe Fink
Dr. Uwe Fink is Professor of Planetary Sciences in the Department of Planetary Sciences and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory as well as Professor of Astronomy in the Steward Observatory of The University of Arizona. Dr. Fink received his undergraduate training at the University of Maine in engineering physics (1961) and did his graduate training at the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D., physics 1965). He has worked at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory since its founding in a large variety of solar system exploration investigations: atmospheres of Venus, Mars, Jupiter etc.; surface composition of the icy satellites and Saturn's rings; laboratory measurements of gases of planetary interest, and the reflection properties and optical constants of solar system ices. All of the instrumentation used for the telescope observations and laboratory experiments was designed and built in house by Dr. Fink. This included long path "White type" absorption cells, Fourier spectrometers, photometers, long slit faint object spectrographs and CCD cameras. His latest research work concentrates on spectroscopic studies of comets, their gas and dust production rates and their taxonomic classification, and on studies of the physical properties of earth crossing asteroids.
Seymour E. Goodman
Dr. Seymour Goodman is a Professor of Management Information Systems at The University of Arizona. In addition to his appointment at the UA, Dr. Goodman is a - Visiting Professor and the Director of CRISP in the Department of Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research and the Institute of International Studies at Stanford University. Previously, he worked for the University of Virginia and Princeton University. He received his B.S. (honors) from Columbia University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1970. His research currently focuses on international technological development and technology transfer, the global diffusion of the Internet, computer-related national and international business and policy issues, and assurance and security of national IT-based infrastructures. He is particularly interested in the former USSR and Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Dr. Goodman has served on over 25 academic, industry, and government advisory boards and study committees. He is currently the Contributing Editor of International Perspectives, Communications of the ACM.
Keith Hege
Dr. Keith Hege is an Associate Astronomer at the Steward Observatory at The University of Arizona. He received his B.A. from Southwestern College (Kansas) in 1956 and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965. He has been affiliated with The University of Arizona, Steward Observatory, for 22 years and is currently a member of the Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics. After an early career primarily devoted to undergraduate teaching in a small liberal arts college, he returned to research as leader of Steward Observatory's U.S. Air Force sponsored speckle interferometric imaging effort from 1978 to 1990. Since then Hege has specialized in developing first-order post-detection processing methodology for recovering diffraction-limited imagery from atmospherically distorted focal-plane data. He is applying iterative deconvolution techniques to calibrate and compensate the point-spread functions resulting from adaptive optics imaging systems and Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS cameras.