2011 MDRS Mission Support Project Management Team

Name Speciality

Brian Enke Acting Director

Ales Nohel Project Management

Julie Edwards Project Management

Tony Muscatello Project Management

Brian Enke is a Senior Space Research Analyst at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he researches planetary science (primarily Moon, Mars, and asteroids), artificial intelligence and robotics algorithms, and remote sensing technologies. Prior to 2001, he worked for 17 years as a senior integrator and complex-system problem solver at Bell Labs.

Brian currently assists or advises several space advocacy groups including 4Frontiers, the MarsDrive Consortium, the National Space Society, and the Mars Society. He also mentors FIRST Robotics team 1584 from Nederland High School, the 2010 Colorado regional champions.

In his part-time writing career, he has written and published Shadows of Medusa, a full-length mystery/science fiction novel about Mars exploration. His long-awaited sequel is currently in-progress. Brian also led the development of a series of Mars settlement short stories for the young-adult market featuring several distinguished science fiction authors. He writes on-line articles as the Denver Space Industry Examiner, and he delights in assisting other aspiring authors further their writing careers.

Ales Nohel wears many hats; he loves physics and studied it for 1 year at the University of Komenius before deciding to study business at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Never loosing sight of the innovation frontier and beyond he strives to connect the best technologies to devise a plan for his dream of space entrepreneurship.

Ales is currently Assistant CEO at OMS Slovakia and the CEO at SpurtingInnovation, a LinkedIn group that is trying to take flight and evolve into a not for profit Think Tank to help innovators from around the globe test, perfect and industialize their innovative ideas.

In his free time he enjoys acting, brainstorming, daydreaming, learning, reading and writing.

Julie Edwards is a laboratory researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor MI. Her research interests include Martian Astrobiology (search for life on Mars), Space Architecture laboratory design for a Mars habitat or pressurized rover), and CELSS and life support (greenhouse structure and function). Julie is a founding member of the Mars Society, Mars Society Chapter Contact for the state of Michigan, and secretary of the Michigan Mars Society chapter. She is also currently helping with construction of the first “Women Build!” house in Michigan with Habitat for Humanity.

Tony Muscatello

Name		Speciality
Brian Enke		Acting Director
Ales Nohel		Project Management
Julie Edwards		Project Management
Tony Muscatello		Project Management

	Brian Enke is a Senior Space Research Analyst at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he researches planetary science (primarily Moon, Mars, and asteroids), artificial intelligence and robotics algorithms, and remote sensing technologies. Prior to 2001, he worked for 17 years as a senior integrator and complex-system problem solver at Bell Labs. Brian currently assists or advises several space advocacy groups including 4Frontiers, the MarsDrive Consortium, the National Space Society, and the Mars Society. He also mentors FIRST Robotics team 1584 from Nederland High School, the 2010 Colorado regional champions. In his part-time writing career, he has written and published Shadows of Medusa, a full-length mystery/science fiction novel about Mars exploration. His long-awaited sequel is currently in-progress. Brian also led the development of a series of Mars settlement short stories for the young-adult market featuring several distinguished science fiction authors. He writes on-line articles as the Denver Space Industry Examiner, and he delights in assisting other aspiring authors further their writing careers.

	Ales Nohel wears many hats; he loves physics and studied it for 1 year at the University of Komenius before deciding to study business at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Never loosing sight of the innovation frontier and beyond he strives to connect the best technologies to devise a plan for his dream of space entrepreneurship. Ales is currently Assistant CEO at OMS Slovakia and the CEO at SpurtingInnovation, a LinkedIn group that is trying to take flight and evolve into a not for profit Think Tank to help innovators from around the globe test, perfect and industialize their innovative ideas. In his free time he enjoys acting, brainstorming, daydreaming, learning, reading and writing.

	Julie Edwards is a laboratory researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor MI. Her research interests include Martian Astrobiology (search for life on Mars), Space Architecture laboratory design for a Mars habitat or pressurized rover), and CELSS and life support (greenhouse structure and function). Julie is a founding member of the Mars Society, Mars Society Chapter Contact for the state of Michigan, and secretary of the Michigan Mars Society chapter. She is also currently helping with construction of the first “Women Build!” house in Michigan with Habitat for Humanity.

	Tony Muscatello