Rick and Delaine are members of the Ely Shoshone Tribe. Rick is a videographer and blogger from McGill, Nevada while Delaine has worked extensively with the Nevada Commission on Tourism to promote eastern Nevada and is a businesswoman. She also serves on the board of the Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership

Dr. Charlet’s  research concerns the natural history of arid regions. His studies focus on the Great Basin and Mojave Desert, a region that includes most of Nevada and some of each of the surrounding states. Most of his research involves how plants are distributed across landscapes and regions.

Since Jan 2022, I've started a new mission area for Research Engineering in the Nevada System of Higher Education, based in System Computing Services. This is a novel role and team designed to: (1) plan/coordinate statewide research cyberinfrastructure across institutions; (2) expand research computing and data networks/services; (3) impact strategic planning for technology; (4) engage and establish regional connectivity partnerships; (5) and support key regional science-based service and engineering projects such as wildfire/climate/hazard observatories, Internet of Things real-world laboratories, and wide-area network telemetry and automation.

Dr. Franck Marchis is a senior astronomer and Director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Unistellar, and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyMapper. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Toulouse, France, in 2000, Marchis moved to the United States to pursue his passion for astronomy and exploration. His research, published in Nature, Science, and other leading journals, includes notable discoveries such as the first triple-asteroid system in 2005, the binary Trojan asteroid Patroclus in 2006, the direct imaging of a Jupiter-like exoplanet in 2015, and major advancements in adaptive optics for 8-10m class ground-based telescopes, as well as citizen science using networks small telescopes.