Dan M. Duriscoe
An environmental scientist and geographer who pioneered night sky protection for the U.S. National Park Service, assisting in the development of a sky brightness measuring and monitoring system based on accurately calibrated digital images. His specialties include sky brightness measurement with CCD cameras, GIS analysis of the effects of escaped light in the natural environment, and examining the impact of various outdoor lighting practices upon visual sky quality in protected areas.
Simon P. Balm
Educated in the United Kingdom, Simon Balm has a wide range of interests including chemistry, experimental physics, astronomy, computer science and education. In graduate school at the University of Sussex he worked with the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Harold Kroto and held postdoctoral research positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the past decade he has been collaborating with the National Park Service in the development of advanced instrumentation and software for the collection and analysis of sky brightness.