Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn (b. 1975) is a Canadian senior meteorologist at the Weather Network in Canada and an award-winning astrophotographer. She has been a member of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and actively inspires others to explore the night sky and develop their interest in astrophotography.

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Leopoldo Infante (b.1955) is a Chilean astronomer and the current director of Las Campanas Observatory. Leopoldo Infante is a former graduate student of the University of Victoria (Canada) and a staff scientist at Carnegie Science and has made major
contributions to the field of observational cosmology.

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Helen Kirk (b. 1981) is a Canadian Senior Research Officer at the Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Institute of the National Research Council of Canada. Her research interest is local star formation, particularly at sub-millimeter and radio wavelengths. Helen is a former student at the University of Victoria.

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Julius Thomas Csotonyi (b. 1973) is a renowned Canadian paleoartist and natural history illustrator, who has a Master's degree in Ecology and Environmental Biology and a Ph.D. in microbiology. His earliest drawings, as young as age 3, were of dinosaurs. Julius has won the Lanzendorf-National Geographic PaleoArt Prize three times.

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Pierre Paquette (b. 1973) is a Canadian graphic designer and amateur astronomer. He served as a board member of RASC Montreal French Centre, editor of the AstronomieQuébec journal, and a presenter at the Night-Sky Odyssey augmented reality planetarium in Québec. Pierre has given multiple talks and workshops, and translated Ptolemy’s Almagest into French.

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Alex Stefanescu (b. 1955) is a retired Romanian-Canadian electrical engineer and
amateur astronomer. A former director of the Bellevue Observatory, he participated in
instrument maintenance, astronomy camps, stargazing, public talks and astrophotography,
attending three total solar eclipses.

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Jason Rowe (b. 1977) is a Canadian Assistant Professor at Bishop's University and the Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics.

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Mike Hudson (b. 1965) is a Canadian Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His research interests include galaxy formation and cosmology.

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Eric Hess (b. 2000) is a Canadian Astrophysics Intern and telescope operator at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory of the University of Calgary, Alberta. He is a coinvestigator with the Optical Transient Survey conducted at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 17, Page 28

Malhar R. Kendurkar (b. 1994) is a Canadian observational astronomer based in Prince George, British Columbia. His main research focus is on astronomical sky surveys, transient astrophysics and spectroscopy. Malhar is a regular user of the 1.82-m Plaskett telescope at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria.

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