• Dr. David Koerner is a Co-Investigator on the SIRTF c2d Legacy Team, NAU manager of the NStars Database, and a leader in the effort to bring astrobiology to the NAU liberal studies curriculum
  
  
• Dr. Nadine Barlow is a reknown researcher on crater morphology with special attention to evidence for water on Mars
  
  
• Dr. Tim Porter works on pre-biotic chemistry with an emphasis on pathways of polymerization to form biomolecules.
  
  
• Dr. Richard Shand carries out research on extremophilic life with special attention to halophiles.
  
  
• Dr. Paul Morgan studies planetary magnetic fields with special interest in remanent Martian magnetic fields as a possible radiation shield for early Martian life.
  
  
• Grad Student Zahed Wahaj works on Keck imaging of circumstellar disks and simulations of SIRTF c2d data.
  
  
• Grad Student James Keller works on NOAO spectroscopy of the c2d Weakline T Tauri Stars sample.
  
  
• Grad Student Peter Allen carried out most of the observing for the NOAO spectroscopy and models the luminosity function of substellar dwarfs
  
  
• Grad Student Lucas Fuhrman carries out observations and database analysis with the ASPENS project
  
  
• Undergraduate Student Jeremy Jacobsen carries out observations and data reduction for the ASPENS project, and works on data entry for the Nstars Database
  
  
• Undergraduate Student Carolyn Parker carries out observations and data reduction for the ASPENS project, and works on data entry for the Nstars Database
  
  
• REU student Brandon Swift works on database modeling of infrared excess from circumstellar disks.