Jim Clark

NPOI Director

Jim Clark, a former NAU professor and mechanical engineer for Navy Research Laboratory is currently the director of NPOI. He and the rest of acting faculty at NPOI sponsored this project with the goal of redeveloping their 30-year-old software and hardware interface for their siderostat mirror control network.

Teznie Pugh

Operations Manager, Lowell Observatory

Dr. Teznie Pugh is the current Telescope Operations Manager for Lowell Observatory. She obtained a PhD. in astronomy from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 2013. She has worked in telescope and technical operatons for 12 years.