More bios coming as they can be beaten/bribed from team members. :)
Team Leaders and Board of Directors Members
- Project Manager
Paul has been working as an Engineer for the Mars Society's Mission Support since the FMARS 2002 season,
and is the current Engineering Team Coordinator. Paul is also on the 4 Frontiers Generation II Mars
Settlement Programing team as a dual division head (Building Trades & Mars Suits.) He attended Colorado
School of Mines where he studied Engineering Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering as
a triple major. He has worked in every building trade, including several years as a plumber, a tinner
and an electrician, has extensive RV experience from construction, repair, refitting and living and
even spent a few days working on the ARES rover.
Currently he is the CTO of Alpine Systems, a PC consulting company where he loves to teach people how to use
their computers in a fun creative manner, and Alpine Systems Engineering, a Linux/Unix consulting and
Web/e-mail hosting company where he spends most of his time building and breaking servers and figuring new
and creative ways to use or abuse computers and electronic hardware. He is currently working on several
Embedded controller real time telemetry and streaming media projects. He is also working with developing
rural broadband using several wireless technologies. His other interests include writing (He is currently
writing a novel, a movie script, and a childrens story having several published short stories and non-fiction
magazine articles), photography, videography, theater, acting, mountaineering, hiking and other outdoor
activities, SCUBA diving, and he is an amateur radio operator (KC0IFZ).
- Chief Engineer
Gary Has a BS in Electrical Engineering specializing in computer systems and a MS and PhD in
Aerospace Engineering specializing in Astrodynamics, GPS systems and Satellite Attitude Determination.
He spent over 8 years professionally investigating the strengths and weaknesses of the technology
surrounding the "Mars Direct" architecture and developing a variety of other aerospace technologies
ranging from launch vehicles to high altitude scientific ballooning. His hobbies include High Power
Rocketry, Scuba, Flying, Wilderness Medicine, and, of course, computers and electronics.
- Planetary Geologist, Science Team Lead
Melissa Battler holds an Honours B.Sc.
in Earth Sciences from the
University of Waterloo, and an M.Sc. in Geology from the University of
New Brunswick's Planetary and Space Science Centre (PASSC), where she
developed a lunar highland regolith simulant to help validate the
design of lunar drilling and excavation equipment. She is currently
working on her PhD at the University of Western Ontario's Centre for
Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), studying cold springs in permafrost environments as habitats
for life on Earth, and possibly Mars. She is also Outreach Coordinator for CPSX, and is developing a high school
level planetary science educational outreach program.
During summer 2007 Melissa led an unprecedented four month Mars mission simulation at the
Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island, Nunavut. She has also served
on six crews at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah from 2003 until present. She is
also developing curriculum for the NASA Spaceward Bound "pre-astronaut" training programs at MDRS.
She is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Student Ambassador, Executive Member of the International
Lunar Explorer's Society, Advisor to the Mars Society of Canada, and Students for the Exploration
and Development of Space (SEDS) Canada, co-founder of the Waterloo, Fredericton, and London Space
Societies, and the Canadian Expedition Mars "pre-astronaut" training program.
Her primary goal is to become an astronaut and to study the surfaces of the Moon and Mars, (she is
currently in round two of the CSA astronaut application process) however she would be almost as
happy to train future astronauts, preparing them for scientific exploration of other planets.
- Treasurer
- Public Relations Team Lead
- VP of Membership and Development
Debi-Lee Wilkinson is our multi-talented VP of Membership and Development. Her resume spans
degrees in physics to fund raising committees. The short list of her skills is: writer, tutor,
computer geek and all around rocket scientist. She has co-founded/helped launch several space
working groups. She enjoys craft projects which is art made from disparate pieces of material.
Similarly, her vision for Open Luna membership is merging people from all walks of life for a
collage approach to colonizing space starting with our nearest neighbor, the moon. She is
actively forming membership and development teams. You may email her your resume for consideration
on one of her teams. The only minimum qualification is ample courage.
- Marketing Materials, Artist
Kelley Sands is the owner of Kelley Design, where he professionally creates logos and many other types of
graphic design. Kelley has earned an Associate Arts Degree in Graphic Design and has a self awarded Masters
Degree in coming up with creative ideas for clients since 1986. Since there is no rest for the creative mind,
He also creates mosaic tile furniture, sketches and paints in fine arts. Kelley has been a Professional Artist
in Advertising and Design since 1986 and has been keeping up with the ever growing technology of new creative
software and the internet. "I started with pen and ink, T-squares and triangles, paint and canvas, and now
I'm dealing with mega pixels and mega bytes, search engines and internet links, servers and external hard drives."
Kelley is working on the OpenLuna Project with the rest of the team and mainly in conjunction with
Emily Colvin on the graphic design and illustrations supporting Emily's work on marketing, the visual
presentations and the OpenLuna.org website. Kelley is also an amateur radio operator (KC0IFY).
"I winter camp without a tent, snow board, mountain bike, kayak, climb, rappel, hunt, occasionally
make contacts with ham radio, teach firearms safety and combat tactics, and still dress up for Halloween.
I'm not a kid anymore but I'm still young at heart and still thrive on adventure and creativity."
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Paul has been working as an Engineer for the Mars Society's Mission Support since the FMARS 2002 season,
and is the current Engineering Team Coordinator. Paul is also on the 4 Frontiers Generation II Mars
Settlement Programing team as a dual division head (Building Trades & Mars Suits.) He attended Colorado
School of Mines where he studied Engineering Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering as
a triple major. He has worked in every building trade, including several years as a plumber, a tinner
and an electrician, has extensive RV experience from construction, repair, refitting and living and
even spent a few days working on the ARES rover.
Gary Has a BS in Electrical Engineering specializing in computer systems and a MS and PhD in
Aerospace Engineering specializing in Astrodynamics, GPS systems and Satellite Attitude Determination.
He spent over 8 years professionally investigating the strengths and weaknesses of the technology
surrounding the "Mars Direct" architecture and developing a variety of other aerospace technologies
ranging from launch vehicles to high altitude scientific ballooning. His hobbies include High Power
Rocketry, Scuba, Flying, Wilderness Medicine, and, of course, computers and electronics.
Melissa Battler holds an Honours B.Sc.
in Earth Sciences from the
University of Waterloo, and an M.Sc. in Geology from the University of
New Brunswick's Planetary and Space Science Centre (PASSC), where she
developed a lunar highland regolith simulant to help validate the
design of lunar drilling and excavation equipment. She is currently
working on her PhD at the University of Western Ontario's Centre for
Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), studying cold springs in permafrost environments as habitats
for life on Earth, and possibly Mars. She is also Outreach Coordinator for CPSX, and is developing a high school
level planetary science educational outreach program.
Debi-Lee Wilkinson is our multi-talented VP of Membership and Development. Her resume spans
degrees in physics to fund raising committees. The short list of her skills is: writer, tutor,
computer geek and all around rocket scientist. She has co-founded/helped launch several space
working groups. She enjoys craft projects which is art made from disparate pieces of material.
Similarly, her vision for Open Luna membership is merging people from all walks of life for a
collage approach to colonizing space starting with our nearest neighbor, the moon. She is
actively forming membership and development teams. You may email her your resume for consideration
on one of her teams. The only minimum qualification is ample courage.
Kelley Sands is the owner of Kelley Design, where he professionally creates logos and many other types of
graphic design. Kelley has earned an Associate Arts Degree in Graphic Design and has a self awarded Masters
Degree in coming up with creative ideas for clients since 1986. Since there is no rest for the creative mind,
He also creates mosaic tile furniture, sketches and paints in fine arts. Kelley has been a Professional Artist
in Advertising and Design since 1986 and has been keeping up with the ever growing technology of new creative
software and the internet. "I started with pen and ink, T-squares and triangles, paint and canvas, and now
I'm dealing with mega pixels and mega bytes, search engines and internet links, servers and external hard drives."
Katya designed and will continue to update and maintain the current OpenLuna website.
She is currently operating from the Sahara Desert in Morocco.
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