Primary organizer and tour leader for RING OF FIRE EXPEDITIONS, he has spent more than 50 years leading solar eclipse and Northern Lights expeditions around the world.
Formerly worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center supporting Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle, and International Space Station programs for the Mission Operations Directorate. He holds degrees in astronomy and mathematics, physical science and business and designed RING OF FIRE EXPEDITIONS as a public outreach arm of the NASA Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society in Houston, Texas USA.
He has conducted numerous science and personal expeditions overseas and continues to design new ones each year.
His specialty is observing occultations of stars by asteroids and space debris tracking; hobbies include running and visiting active volcanoes.