Shedon Greaves, Ph.D.

Dr. Greaves is a long-time member of SAS and served as the General Editor of The Citizen Scientist from 2001 to 2004. He earned his doctorate in ancient Near Eastern Studies from Berkeley in 1996. He enjoys exploring the wilds of Rhode Island with his nature photographer spouse, Denise.  Currently he is the Chief Academic Officer of the California University of Protection and Intelligence Management, which he co-founded in 1997. The school is based in San Jose, CA.

Monty R. Robson
McCarthy Observatory

Monty Robson is the President of the Western Connecticut Chapter, Society for Amateur Scientists and Director of the John J. McCarthy Observatory. He is a father and a husband and has just retired as a senior captain from American Airlines.

Mark Streitman
Society for Amateur Scientists, New Jersey Chapter

Mark is the Founder and President of the New Jersey Chapter of SAS. He has been passionate about science since he first discovered the Gemini Space Missions as a young boy.

He is a graduate of Rutgers University and has worked in various industries as a software engineer. Much of his work has been with diamond manufacturers, plastics manufacturers, and utility companies.

Mark is now running his own company and is currently designing a science experiment for the education market that is SAS related.

Lance Osadchey, MD

Lance graduated from the Upstate Medical school in Syracuse New York in 1963. After an internship at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre Pa., he served 2 years as a physician with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg NC. 4 months in Santa Domingo during that unrest. 5 years then in an emergency room at the Meriden-Wallingford Hospital in Meriden CT. After 5 years in private family practice he moved to Bradford VT where he worked as a private solo-family doctor until retirement in 1998.

Upon retirement he began reading science material not related directly to medicine, namely physics information.  He enjoys visiting his 3 children and 6 grandchildren as well as caring for his dog Shadow. Blue trail skiing in the winter and some hiking walking in the summer. Chess, painting, and science are hobbies.

George Hrabovsky has been an amateur scientist for more than thirty years. Most of that time has been spent as a theorist, though much field science, and even some laboratory science has crept in. In the last ten years his amateur status has been threatened by a two year, paid, appointment to the University of Wisconsin Department of Physics in Madison. He brushes those objections aside by adopting the self-imposed title of professional amateur scientist. Since 1999 he has been the President of Madison Area Science and Technology (MAST), the SAS branch in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a columnist for TCS and has written numerous features. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife Dianna, step-daughter Stephanie, pet rat Schrödinger, gerbil Emmilman, turtle Sheldon, three goldfish (as yet unnamed), the hermit crab Hermee, and the Parson's Spider Harry.

Matthew Templeton, Ph.D.
AAVSO

A native of Delaware and Physics graduate of the University of Delaware, Matt completed his PhD in Astronomy at New Mexico State University in June 2000. For his dissertation, he used the MACHO database to study the pulsation behavior of delta Scuti stars in the Galactic center. During his graduate studies and as a postdoc at Yale University, Matt worked on various topics in delta Scuti star asteroseismology and stellar evolution modeling, in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined AAVSO in August 2002 as a postdoctoral scientist.

Garry Mahon, Ph.D.

Garry obtained his PhD in Quantitative Genetics from Trinity College Dublin in 1980. After two postdoc positions, he joined the European Commission where he has been working ever since, first in Brussels and then in Luxembourg. His day job is principal administrator in agricultural statistics. An active citizen scientist, Garry has been collaborating for twenty years with Mario Dicato MD, Head of the Hematology-Oncology Department at the Municipal Hospital in Luxembourg. They are working on several projects involving cancer, genes and statistics.

Charles Pooley

Charles Pooley is self employed as a consultant and designer with 40 years experience in linear circuits, servos and electrooptics.  His background ranges from two years at sea on an oceanographic ship, involvement in startups, patents, to the design of a sounding rocket.

Believing that the pathway to access to space requires developing the means to get there, he has for 30 years been studying the relevant technologies, including rocket propulsion, thermodynamics, and other areas bearing on the engineering of launcher systems.

For the past ten years he has been more narrowly focused on strategies using small scale vehicles and spacecraft as the key to bypassing the problems encountered by space startup ventures which hope to begin by
beginning with large vehicles. With his venture Microlaunchers he is working to develop a small launcher system.

Forrest M. Mims III

Forrest Mims is the most widely read electronics author in the world. His sixty books have sold over 7,500,000 copies and have twice been honored for excellence by the Computer Press Association. His "Engineer's Notebook" series of books for RadioShack are entirely hand-lettered and hand-illustrated to re-create the look of Forrest's own laboratory notebooks.

His work has appeared in some 70 magazines and science journals, including Nature, Scientific American, Science, Popular Photography, New Scientist, Sky & Telescope, Popular Mechanics, Physics Today, Electronics, PC Magazine, and IEEE Spectrum. Forrest is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Citizen Scientist.

Forrest's consulting clients have included the National Geographic Society, the National Science Teachers Association, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Forrest also teaches experimental Earth science once or twice a year at the University of the Nations at their campuses in Kona, Hawaii, and Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1993, he was named a Laureate in the Rolex Awards for Enterprise competition for his efforts in establishing a global ozone measuring network that used instruments of his own design.

Aleta Karstad

Aleta, an accomplished nature artist (see http://pinicola.ca/aleta.htm) has kept illustrated nature journals for 35 years, and is the author and illustrator of "Canadian Nature Notebook" (also published as "Wild Habitats"), "Wild Seasons Daybook", "Queen Charlotte Islands Cumshewa Head Trail" , and "A Place to Walk, a naturalists journal of Lake Ontario's Waterfront Trail".  Aleta and her biologist husband Fred Schueler at the Bishops Mills Natural History Centre near Ottawa, Canada, http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm, where they dedicate themselves to natural history documentation, archiving natural history journals, and the design and development of theNatureJournal (see http://www.thenaturejournal.ca).

David Wheeler, Ph.D.

David Wheeler, Ph.D., is an associate professor in marketing at Suffolk University, Boston. He has a doctorate in psychology, marketing, and statistics from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

Wheeler is the principal investigator of a research study that looks at the attitudes and perceptions of home inventors, amateur scientists, and basement hobbyists regarding:
 
1) The business applications of their ideas; and,
 
2) the new rules and regulations of state and federal agencies (Homeland Security-related) toward the research and experiments done by amateur scientists at home. 

Reginald Smith

Reginald Smith has been a member of SAS for almost 5 years. He studied business and physics at the University of Virginia where he started amateur science by building a glow discharge plasma tube. He has written three papers, one on plasma physics and two on network theory, one applying it to instant messaging networks and one applying it to collaborations in rap music.
 
His other current interests include building a Penning charged particle trap, mycorrhiza (plant root-fungus symbiosis), and the ancient Meroitic writing script. He is a general license ham operator as well (KG4OCM). Mr. Smith is currently pursuing his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

William H. Appleby

David Culp
Founder & President, KiteShip Corporation

Educated at Stanford, Westlawn and the University of California at Davis in Engineering, Industrial and Sailcraft Design, Mr. Culp has designed and built kite-powered yachts, ship propulsion systems and related marine structures since 1978.

Mr. Culp formed KiteShip in 1996 to investigate and develop large scale kites and control systems, specifically for ship-pulling and other marine propulsion applications. His primary focus is the effective design of large kites, controls and structures suitable to kite power, and in inexpensive prototyping and manufacturing methods for large mechanical and flying devices with imperfectly understood capabilities and materials limits.

KiteShip holds two Guinness records for kite powered vessels, and several kite sailing patents. Mr. Culp speaks and consults as a world expert on large-scale traction kite design, controls, and aero-hydrodynamics. http://www.kiteship.com

Ed Nisley

Ed Nisley, an EE with a machine shop, enjoys building stuff that works, fixing gizmos that don’t, and playing with dangerous toys. His Above The Ground Plane column in Circuit Cellar magazine describes analog and RF topics, using straightforward circuitry to explain how and why good designs go wrong. His Nisley’s Notebook column in Dr. Dobb’s Journal explores the combination of hardware, firmware, and human frailty that goes into embedded systems.