OpenLuna Team Members

Paul Graham, President and Chairman of the Board

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 Programming 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 CEO of Aitken Shipyards, an aerospace design and manufacturing firm currently working on launch vehicle development & manufacturing and developing terrestrial applications for pressurized habitat and suit technology, and Alpine Systems Engineering, a Linux/Unix consulting and Web/e-mail hosting company where he spends most of his time building and managing 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 has also worked with developing rural broadband using several extreme long-range 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).

Debi-Lee Wilkinson, VP of Membership and Development and board member.

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. 

Rick Reeser, Secretary and Treasurer and board member

Hall Fulton, board member.

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 made it to round two of the CSA astronaut application process, and she would be almost as happy to train future astronauts, preparing them for scientific exploration of other planets.

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 on the graphic design and illustrations supporting marketing efforts, 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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