Marcin Sawicki (b. 1969) is a Canadian Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition, he is the Director of the Institute for Computational Astrophysics and a founding member of the JWST Near infrared Imager and slitless spectrograph instrument science.

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Aaron C. Boley (b. 1980) is a Canadian Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of British Columbia. His research interests include planet formation and system evolution, proto-planetary disk evolution and the formation of meteorite parent bodies.

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The Malahat First Nation is one of five bands that comprise the Saanich Nation, located on the west coast of Canada.

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The Pauquachin First Nation is one of five bands that comprise the Saanich Nation, located on the west coast of Canada.

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The Tseycum First Nation is one of five bands that comprise the Saanich Nation, located on the west coast of Canada.

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The Tsartlip First Nation is one of five bands that comprise the Saanich Nation, located on the west coast of Canada.

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Peter A. Bergbusch (b. 1950) is a Canadian astronomer and retired faculty member of the Department of Physics of the University of Regina, Canada. He is an authority on stellar evolution and CCD photometry and a former graduate student at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Victoria.

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Wilfred Buck (b. 1954) is a Canadian knowledge keeper of Cree/Ininewuk star lore. His Cree name, Pawami Nikititicikiw, means “dream keeper.” A member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, he has taught Cree astronomy all over the world, and is the
author of Tipiskawi Kisik and I Have Lived Four Lives.

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Frédéric Séguin (b. 1981) is a Canadian analytical chemist. As a member of the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, he took part in the analysis of small organic molecules present in the sample brought back from asteroid Bennu during the OSIRIS-REx mission.

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