Melissa Battler, Crew 14 Geology/Biology	Melissa Battler is currently completing the final year of her B.Sc. program in Geology and Biology at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. Next year she plans to pursue a M.Sc. in Geology, most likely involving fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic. On Expedition One (Crew 14) at MDRS, she collected data for her Geology Honours Thesis. She has also done geological fieldwork in Western Newfoundland, Central Ontario, and Southern Quebec. She is the President and co-founder of the Waterloo Space Society (WSS), the Director of Communications of Mars Society Canada (MSC), and the Academic Relations Officer for the 2004 Canadian Student Summit on Aerospace (CSSA).
Brent Bos, Crews 18, FMARS 01 Physics/Planetary Science	Dr. Brent Bos is a research physicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Currently his work is focused on development of the James Webb Space Telescope (the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope) and Mars lander scientific instrumentation. He has worked on scientific imagers for several Mars lander missions including: Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander and Beagle 2. A robotic arm camera for Phoenix, the 2007 Mars Scout mission, was the subject of his dissertation research. His Mars analogue work has included participation in manned Mars mission simulations in the Arctic and Utah desert and dust devil research in Arizona.
Penny Boston, Crew 6 Biology	Dr. Penelope Boston is currently Research Associate Professor in the Dept. of Biology at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), and also Director of Research for Complex Systems Research, Inc., a non-profit research and educational organization in Boulder, CO. A field scientist specializing in extreme environments, her particular areas of interest include: cave geomicrobiology, microbial communities in highly mineralizing environments, unique biominerals and biosignature detection, astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, global biogeochemical cycling and co-evolution of the abiotic planetary properties with life, and Mars research and human exploration of the Solar System.Together with a highly multidisciplinary team, she has been focusing for the past decade on subsurface microbial chemoautotrophic systems based on S, Fe, Mn, REEs, and other inorganic energy sources. Boston is one of the original founders of the Case for Mars (begun in 1978 as the Mars Study Project) at the University of Colorado where she received her PhD in microbiology and atmospheric chemistry. Author of many technical papers and articles in the popular press, Boston has co-edited four proceedings volumes (including the first and fifth CFM proceedings volumes) and is coauthor on two forthcoming popular books. She was named a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Fellow in May of 2000 and has received research awards from The Space Foundation, Sigma Xi, and the National Research Council. Penny spends the rest of her life dealing with her 14 year old daughter, 90 year old dad, and a menagerie of animals and plants. She dances with a local flamenco troupe, and designs and creates hand-made bobbin and needle laces.
Jonathan Butler, Crew 14 Biology/Chemistry	Jonathan Butler conducted biology research for two years at Point Loma Nazarene University, covering histology, immunohistochemistry, RNA work, PCR knowledge, and microscopy with standard and phase contrast techniques. He obtained his BS degree (Biology/Chemistry major) in March 2003. Jonathan coauthored a research project with Shannon Rupert and Steve McDaniel for Crew 4 and served as crew biologist during Expedition One/Crew 14. Currently, Jonathan is a first year MD/PhD graduate student.
Bill Clancey, Crews 5/16/29 FMARS 01 Human Factors/Cognitive Science	Dr. William Clancey is a cognitive scientist with a Mathematical Sciences BA from Rice University and a Computer Science PhD from Stanford University. He has been responsible for some of the earliest computer programs to model expert reasoning, with applications in medical diagnosis and teaching. Bill works at NASA-Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, as Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Computing, on leave from the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (University of West Florida, Pensacola). At Ames, Bill manages the Work Systems Design and Evaluation Group, a multidisiplinary team that integrates social science, psychology, and software engineering. He is principal investigator of the Mobile Agents Project, the focus of MDRS Rotation 16. Bill is a founding member of the Mars Society and on the Steering Committee. He has lived and worked at Haughton Crater on Devon Island for over 10 weeks since 1998. He was an inaugural FMARS crewmember in 2001 and led MDRS Rotation 5 in 2002. He has presented invited talks in 18 countries and often speaks in schools and museums. His interests include photography, adventure travel, hiking, video, and writing.
Jonathan Clarke, Crew 14 Geology	Dr. Jonathan Clarke is a geologist with experience in the mineral and petroleum industry, academia, and in government surveys. He has worked in every state of Australia, mostly in the arid interior. In addition he has practiced geology in New Zealand, the Philippines, and the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, one of the most Mars-like areas on earth. Dr Clarke led the Jarntimarra-1 expedition and is a director of Mars Society Australia. Dr. Clarke is also Manager of the MARS-OZ project.
Julie Edwards, Crew 14 Biology/Mission Support	Julie Edwards is a retired laboratory researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor MI. Her interests include Martian Astrobiology (search for life on Mars), Space Architecture (laboratory design for a Mars habitat or pressurized rover), and CELSS and life support (greenhouse structure and function). Julie is a founding member of the Mars Society and secretary of the Michigan Mars Society chapter.
Brent Garry, Crews 16, 29 Volcanology/K-12 Educational Outreach	Brent Garry is a third-year graduate student at the University at Buffalo, New York where he is working on a Ph.D. in volcanology, with a focus on the emplacement of submarine lava flows. He received a B.S. (1999) in geology from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and an M.S. (2001) in geology from the University of Kentucky. A native of Virginia, Brent became hooked on the space program as a youngster when he lived in Jacksonville, Florida during the early 1980's and would watch shuttle launches from his front yard. Brent served as a geologist on Crew 16 at MDRS in April 2003 and looks forward to returning as part of Crew 29 in April, 2004. In his spare time, he likes to play volleyball, SCUBA dive, draw, and watch 80's movies.
Jennifer Glidewell, Crew 10 Geology	Jennifer Glidewell, Crew 10 geologist and Mars Society of Houston member, holds a B.S. in Geophysics. She is currently employed as a geoscientist with Geoscience Earth & Marine Services (a consulting group) in Houston, Texas. Her passion has always been planetary science (especially Mars because that is where humans should be headed next!). Her next step will be to further her study of planetary geology focusing on impact processes and Earth, Lunar, and Martian geology in graduate school. In addition to occasional visits to impact structures, she enjoys field geology and travels as much as possible.
Shannon Hinsa, FMARS02 Microbiology	Shannon Hinsa is finishing her PhD at Dartmouth College. Her research is focused on biofilm formation by Pseudomonas fluorescens. She is originally from Wisconsin and did her undergrad at the University of Wisconsin Madison, majoring in Bacteriology. She served as the microbiologist/biologist for FMARS 2002. "It was an amazing opportunity to serve with such an outstanding group of people from all over the world. Now research on extremophiles has become a hobby and side project for me. I set up my own science backroom and research goals for our season but I really believe in an organized effort to set research goals. I am excited to be part of this group.
Elia Husiatynski, Crew 15 Genetics/Molecular Biology	Elia Husiatynski is a student of genetics and molecular biology at the Paris-Lodron-Universitat in Salzburg, Austria. He is also working as member of the security crew in the Rockhouse Salzburg. His main interests are adaption and reactions of microorganisms to extreme environments, especially the martian. In his spare time he likes to go offroad- and mountainbiking and to train wing chun.
Steve McDaniel, Crews 1/6 FMARS 03 Biochemistry	Dr. Steve McDaniel is an attorney and entrepreneur out of Austin, Texas. He is a life member of the Mars Society and served on two MDRS missions (1 and 6) as biologist and engineer. Steve's principal interests include Martian studies and boating. He is a contributor to the music of the Extremeophiles ("Rockabye"). He enjoys motorcycle riding and backpacking. His scientific interests revolve around technology stemming from his Ph.D. dissertation in 1985 at Texas A&M University involving enzymes capable of detoxifying certain types of neurotoxic compounds found in soil bacteria. Steve served as the FMARS 2003 commander and as its chief biologist. He hopes to replicate the successful biological mission he and others developed at MDRS in the arctic environment. He also hopes to be on a crew to the European Iceland habitat in the 2004 research season. He presented a plenary session discussion of the experiences and scientific results obtained by the FMARS 2003 crew.
Vuong Nguyen, Crew 14 Microbiology	Vuong Nguyen works as Instructional Laboratory Technician at the San Diego Community College District, Miramar Campus, as well as Research Technician at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology, from the University of California, San Diego.
Shannon Rupert, Crews 4, 14, 21 Ecology/Remote Science	Shannon Rupert Robles is a professor of biology from San Diego, California. She is currently involved in a long-term collaborative microbial ecology research project at MDRS and will be extending her research to Australia's Mars-Oz, where she is the U.S. Coordinator for Expedition Two, in August 2004. She served as crew biologist at MDRS for Crew 4, was joint commander and chief biologist for Expedition One/Crew 14, and is commander for Crew 21. Having spent two years working with the Mission Support team as Science Officer and Coordinator of the Biology Backrooms at both FMARS and MDRS, she is currently Coordinator of the MDRS Remote Science Team and a member of the Mobile Agents Remote Science Subteam, which will be holding field tests at MDRS as Crew 29 in Spring 2004. Shannon is a member of the San Diego Chapter of the Mars Society and the Association of Mars Explorers and serves as a Solar System Ambassador through NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Among her earthly pursuits are anticipating the birth of her recently adopted horse's foal in Spring 2004.
Maarten Sierhuis, Crews 16, 29 Human-Centered Computing	Maarten Sierhuis is a computer scientist, with a Ph.D. in social science and informatics from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Early on in his career he specialized in designing expert systems, with a particular focus on the role of such systems in the larger context of the total work process. Today he believes that technology designers need a deep understanding of how people work in practice, before they even attempt to develop technology for people. His research in the last ten years has focused on computational modeling and simulation techniques for understanding how people work in practice. In technical terms we call this work practice modeling and simulation. He beliefs that through modeling the practice and context in which work occurs, software designers will have a better understanding of people and software systems might become better equipped in assisting people, while enhancing people's work life. Mobile Agents is applying some of this research and testing it in the harsh reality, of yet ill-defined practices, of planetary EVAs.
Stacy Sklar, Crew 3 Geology	Stacy Sklar is currently a nontraditional student at Northern Arizona University studying Geochemistry. She aspires to be a Mars Vulcanologist. Stacy has learning disorders but refers to them as challenges. "We will have many challenges getting to, living on, and exploring Mars. I see my learning disorders as an analog to the challenges we will face on Mars. It's not going to be easy and it will take a lot of hard work." Stacy has been an active member of the Mars Society since the second convention in Denver (1999). She was apart of the scouting group looking for Mars analog sites for the MDRS in the American southwest. Stacy scouted locations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in 2000/2001. She also served as a crewmember of the shakedown crew during the Christmas break 2001, as a crewmember (rotation three) during a one-week rotation, spring break 2002, and as backroom geologist during Expedition One Feb/March 2003. She is an avid outdoorswoman, hiking and backpacking over 2,000 miles mostly in Northern Arizona. Stacy likes to spend her free time practicing martial arts on her boyfriend Ed. She is currently studying a form of martial arts called Qi Gong. Stacy will be working with the remote sensing team under the geology program with specialties in field studies, vulcanology, and geochemistry.
Jody Tinsley, Crews 13, FMARS 03 Geology	Jody Tinsley grew up in the western corner of South Carolina, in the Upstate. His father worked in a rock quarry; this fact got him interested in geology early, but he has always been taken by a variety of topics. These varied interests led him to pursue a broad rather than deep series of studies at Clemson University, where he earned bachelor degrees in English and in geology, and then later an MA in English Literature and an MS in Hydrogeology. He is currently a Lecturer in Geology at Clemson, where he teaches various introductory classes and oversees the labs. His interest in rivers led him to co-edit the American Canoe Association's River Safety Anthology. He served as mission geologist on MDRS Crew 15. He is interested in the interplay between science and society, and he tries to share these connections with his students. In his leisure time, he reads voraciously, enjoys river trips (by raft and canoe), hiking, running, and playing softball and ultimate Frisbee, and engaging in other outdoor sports. He is also trying to learn to play the guitar, and he meets friends to play and sing a bit of folk and bluegrass music. His interests make him a "generalist": he is willing to turn his hand to just about any work or activity. His hobby of carpentry will pay off soon, he hopes, in that he and his wife, April Childress, are planning to build a house over the next year or so using a passive solar design and alternative energy systems.
Tiffany Vora, Crews 3, 11 Molecular biology	Tiffany Vora is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biology at the Lewis-Sigler Center for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, where she studies the relationship between DNA-protein interactions and the cell's response to its environment. Tiffany is a proud alumnus of MDRS Crews 3 and 11, and couldn't be more excited about the MDRS Remote Science Team. In her free time, Tiffany is an EMT, a certified scuba diver, and of course, a Mars enthusiast.
Nancy Wood, Crews 5, 14 Microbiology	Dr. Nancy Wood has many years of active research in microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. She is currently associated with an entrepreneurial group in microbial diagnostics, and previously held Senior Scientist positions at Northwestern and Rush Medical Schools. Her research has included the molecular genetics and biochemistry of nitrogen-regulated development in cyanobacteria, cell-cycle studies in Caulobacter crescentus, and the physiology and gene expression changes in stationary-phase bacteria. She has developed many molecular methods for the detection of alterations in cancer-related genes, and established a diagnostic molecular biology group at a major medical center. Nancy has a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology from Rutgers University. She was a microbiologist on Crew 5 and for Expedition One. Her focus for these missions was microbial sampling and detection methods, the analysis of microhabitats in their geochemical context, and co-ordination of field science with communication and research rover operation. For recreation, Nancy likes hiking, mountain trekking, bicycling, and other outdoor activities. She is also an active SCUBA diver, and sees many parallel challenges in underwater and space exploration.