Dr. Arnold is a scientist leading the Atmospheric and Exposure Sciences Team for the Environmental Media Assessment Group of the National Center for Environmental Assessment, a unit of the EPA's Office of Research and Development. Dr. Arnold has worked for more than 15 years on questions in tropospheric chemistry and physics. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as principal investigator for a number of ground- and aircraft-based field experiments and for large-scale numerical modeling studies concerned with the behavior of photochemical systems under conditions of future change, work for which he has received national awards from US EPA and NOAA. Dr. Arnold serves on national and international proposal and project review committees, is a regular reviewer for journals in the atmospheric sciences, and has authored more than forty peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Mike Botts, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist within the National Space Science and Technology Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama USA

Dr. Botts received his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from University of Colorado and an M.A. in Planetary Geology and Remote Sensing/Image Processing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned a B.S. in Geology at Auburn University. He is currently Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama USA.

Dr. Botts is the creator and chief architect of Sensor Model Language (SensorML), an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) pending standard for describing the measurement and processing of observations from virtually any sensor system. He is also chair of the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Working Group, as well as architect of the Space Time Toolkit, a Java-based environment for on-the-fly fusion of disparate sensor data within an interactive 4D visualization environment.

Joe Gawlik, Senior Vice President, Business Development, 3001 Corporation, USA

Mr. Gawlik is 3001's Vice President of Business Development. After earning his BS from the University of Dayton, Joe received his commission in the United States Navy. He then served as an aviation instructor at Pensacola, an Intelligence Division Officer on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower; Head of the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Briefing Section; Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence for Carrier Group Seven and Cruiser Destroyer Group Five; and finished up his Naval career as a Program Manager at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. He earned a Masters degree in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and is certified as a Weapons System Acquisition Professional.

Mr. Gawlik has spent over fifteen years in a variety of business development, operational and executive positions with several companies including MRJ Technology Solutions, Veridian and General Dynamics.

Robert E. Imhoff, President, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC.

Mr. Imhoff holds an M.S., Environmental Engineering, from Vanderbilt University; a B.S., Engineering Sciences, Vanderbilt University; and an E.I.T., State of Tennessee.

He has thirty-three years of experience with measurement and modeling of atmospheric pollutants, specializing in air quality model evaluation. He has coauthored 16 peer-reviewed publications on air quality measurement and modeling. He is an expert in directing teams to set up, run, and interpret results of atmospheric modeling. He led the Tennessee Valley Authority team of air quality modelers during the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative (SAMI; ozone, PM, visibility, acidic deposition) and Ozone Transport Advisory Group (OTAG; ozone) studies. His expertise with measurement programs has given him a critical understanding of the use of measured data for model evaluation.

Feodor A. Surkov, Ph.D., Department Head, Southern Federal University High Technology Faculty, Russia

Dr. Surkov is also County Coordinator for the Russian GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) program in Rostov and the Program Coordinator for the South Russia GLOBE program. He is the Director of the GIS Technology Center in Rostov, Deputy Director of the Scientific Research Institute for Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Southern Federal University, Rostov; and Assistant Professor of College of Mechanics and Mathematics, Rostov.

He is a member of the Rostov Mathematical Society; Deputy Head, Scientific Council, Scientific Research Institute of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Southern Federal University; and Member, Special Scientific Council that confers Ph.D. degrees in Southern Federal University. He was awarded the USSR State Prize for his work "The Azov Sea mathematical model-creation and utilization." He has published over 100 reports, articles and brochures with six books among them.

Dr. Surkov's areas of scientific interest include mathematical modeling and operations of research tools in environmental problems; natural resources management; simulation modeling of system dynamics; population biology; optimal control (harvesting) problem for natural systems; and environmental education for sustainable development.

Thomas (Tom) Wisniewski, President, Cerex Monitoring Solutions, LLC

Mr. Wisniewski is the founder and President of Cerex Monitoring Solutions. He has twenty years of experience in development of chemical sensors for the company.s D.O.D. customers and commercial end-users. Under his leadership, Cerex developed and manufactured one of the first Open Path FTIR remote sensing systems. He was also instrumental in the implementation of core technologies employed by Cerex in its line of sensors including broadband infrared and ultraviolet, as well as tunable diode laser.