Hieronimus & Co. are big supporters of the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) and the extraordinary work they are doing to examine the anomalous surface features on Mars. SPSR is primarily an organization that fosters and promotes research into planetary anomalies. Their group members publish, research, and teach in numerous fields such as astronomy, geology, archeology, philosophy, engineering, image processing, anthropology, mathematics, and physics. They are committed to keeping the Mars investigation in particular as much in the "Mainstream" as possible. To this end they encourage members to submit their work to peer review within their group and for possible publication in appropriate peer reviewed science journals. Most recently they have published two articles in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 13, Number 3, Summer 1999. To support the work of SPSR, you can contact current president, Dr. Horace Crater, by e-mail at hcrater@utsi.edu or visit the website of SPSR founder Professor Stanley McDaniel at www.mcdanielreport.com where you can link to several other sites of SPSR members, including those below. Dr. Crater notes that they can always use help in analyzing the 57,000+ images released by NASA, so if you are qualified to help in this effort, please contact him. The following names and descriptions of research indicate the depth and scope of their abilities to examine this mystery, and, as we believe, why NASA and JPL should pay heed to their advice.

Dr. James F. Strange
strange@chuma.cas.usf.edu
Office Telephone: 813-974-1859

Professor of Religious Studies, former Dean and former Chair of Religious Studies, University of South Florida. Director, University of South Florida Archaeological Excavations at Sepphoris, Israel. Art and Archaeology editor for the Macmillan Dictionary of Biblical Judaism. Author of four books in archaeology; the art and archaeology chapter for the Handbuch des Judentums for E.J. Brill in Holland; and 90 refereed articles in professional journals such as the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Israel Exploration Journal, Revue Biblique, and The Biblical Archaeologist. Also author of popular works in The Biblical Archaeology Review, The Bible Illustrator, and Archeologia Viva.

Mr. James Erjavec
erjavecj@aol.com
Office Telephone: 513-648-3386

M.S. in geology at The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. B.S. in geology at The Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Geologist and Computer/Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst with over 13 years experience in those fields. Currently working as an environmental geologist and GIS analyst in the characterization and restoration of a DOE Superfund Site in southern Ohio. A specialist in mapping and computer graphics, he has developed an extensive geomorphic feature map of the Cydonia region to assist in the establishment of a geologic baseline for continued studies.
Internet: Final Frontiers, www.destinationspace.net/frontier/frontier.asp

Mr. Ananda Sirisena
Ananda@compares.freeserve.co.uk
Address: 7 Lake Close, Magpie Farm Estate, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3LS, United Kingdom
Telephone: 44-1296-714180

Formerly image processing engineer and teacher at Unisys Training Center in England. Currently employed on a contract basis. Has made several independent discoveries of new sites on Mars of SETI interest.

Dr. Tom Van Flandern
tvf@mindspring.com
Address: Meta Research, P.O. Box 15186, Chevy Chase, MD 20825-5186
Telephone: 202-362-9176

Ph.D. in Celestial Mechanics, Yale University, 1969. Former Director, Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory. Former consultant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and frequent contributor to scholarly technical journals and astronomy magazines. Author of Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets. Currently Head of the MetaResearch Foundation in Chevy Chase, MD.
Internet: www.metaresearch.org

Dr. Mark J. Carlotto
markjc@mindspring.com
Office Telephone: 703-516-6219

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Carnagie-Mellon University (1981). Assistant Adjunct Professor, Boston University, 1981-1983. Division Staff Analyst, Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), 1983-1994. Author of over forty papers in computer vision, digital image processing, pattern recognition and other areas. Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Internet: www.psrw.com/~markc/marshome.html

Mr. John P. Levasseur
njlevass@nmtc.net
Office Telephone: 207-768-2836

Instructor, Math and Physics, Northern Maine Technical College, Presque Isle, Maine. Involved primarily in supporting two-year technical programs with related courses of study. Long-time student of the Mars anomalies. Wrote 24-page report for Senator Susan Collins of Maine summarizing the evidence supporting artificiality at Cydonia - forwarded report to Senator Olympia Snow. PowerPoint presentations to interested NMTC students and local organizations on the anomalies and theories of artificiality. Presently working with Dr. Horace Crater on MGS image AB108403 and associated Viking images. Education: 1995 Antioch New England Graduate School, Master of Education; 1984 University of Maine at Orono, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Technology; and 1977 Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute, Diploma, Electronics.
Internet: marsartifacts.tripod.com

Mr. Erol Torun
tharsis@his.com

B.S., Geography (subspecialty geomorphology), University of Maryland at College Park. Cartographer and physical scientist with the Defense Mapping Agency, Washington, DC, since 1980. From 1980-86 worked on Digital Terrain Elevation Data, a matrix of elevation points to represent ground topology. Currently working in the area of computer systems procurement. He is the author of The Geometry and Geomorphology of the D&M Pyramid.

Professor Stanley V. McDaniel
mcdaniel@sonoma.edu

Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, Sonoma State University at Rohnert Park, California. Founding Vice-President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking. Teacher of Logic, Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Science, and Ethics at the university level for over thirty years. Founder of SPSR (Society for Planetary SETI Research). Author of The McDaniel Report on the ethics and epistemology of research on anomalies in the Cydonia region of Mars. Co-editor of The Case for the Face. Author, "Image Enhancement: What it is and How It Works," "Cydonian Mound Geometry," and other articles on the Mars Anomalies. Co-author (with Horace W. Crater), "Mound Configurations on the Martian Cydonia Plain." Has lectured widely in the U.S. and Britain on the Mars anomalies. Videotape: "McDaniel on Mars: The Aylesbury Lecture," Amora Video, 1997. Also, author of various research papers and conference presentations in philosophy exploring the relation between philosophy and psychology, including "The Coalescence of Minds" in the volume Philosophers Look at Science Fiction.
Internet: www.mcdanielreport.com

Mr. Vincent DiPietro
cydonia@erols.com
Address: Mars Research, P.O.Box 1345, Sykesville, MD 21784

Vincent DiPietro, a senior systems engineer, now retired worked as a contractor at Goddard Space Flight Center for twenty-three years. Although without a formal college degree, he has attained a level of Engineering Associate by participating in an engineering course curricula at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland. Mr. DiPietro has designed, built, and delivered several electronic hardware packages for use in image processing equipment at Goddard Space Center. These packages have been used in support of the Landsat MSS and RBV programs and the NIMBUS CZCS programs. His knowledge of image processing has been useful in performing the analysis of the Viking Mars data. Having a background of image processing techniques, Mr. DiPietro has performed his independent image enhancements of selected Viking data sets using digital tapes as the source. Several processes are demonstrated in the image analysis study that he has prepared, including one of his own invention known as Starburst Pixel Interleaving Technique (SPIT). The digital image processes were used in the preparation of 35mm slides mostly over the Cydonia region of Mars where some interesting observations were made. The enhancements have revealed detail in an object of controversy - the Face on Mars. The detail does not manifest itself clearly in the original archival photos, but is clearly seen in the slides. Mr. DiPietro and his associates have self-published a full description of this work in a book entitled Unusual Mars Surface Features, fourth edition.

Dr. John E. Brandenburg
gemcosmos@erols.com

Co-author, with DiPietro & Molenaar, of the fourth edition of Unusual Mars Surface Features. Plasma Physicist working primarily on the theory of magnetic confinement of plasmas for fusion power and defense-related areas of plasma physics. Unified Field Theories. Co-author with Monica Paxton of book Dead Mars, Dying Earth.

Mr. Lan Fleming
LanFleming@aol.com
Office Telephone: 281-483-2058

Education: Bachelor of Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology; Master of Science, Computer Science, DePaul University. 1971-1987: Metallurgical Engineer, Association of American RailRoads, Chicago. 1987-1990: Computer Systems Analyst, Artifiicial Intelligence Department, Southwest Research Institute. 1990-present: Computer Systems Analyst, Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Johnson Space Center, Houston, initially as an employee of Lockheed Engineering and Science Company and currently for Hernandez Engineering, Inc. Currently working on two projects at JSC. One is the development of a qualitative modeling and simulation tool. The second project is the implementation of a semi-automonomous task assistant for the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System. Primary roles in that project have been writing intermodule communications code and debugging the robot-control sofware.
Internet: www.vgl.org

Dr. Mitchell Swartz
mica@world.std.com

Medical Doctor. Background in pattern recognition and imaging processing. Published in the fields of radiographic and positron imaging systems, with special interest in identification and metabolic analysis of tumors. Also familiar with spectroscopy, specifically the interaction of radiation with matter, and remote sensing.

Dr. Alexey Arkhipov
rai@ira.kharkov.ua
Institute of Radio Astronomy, Ukraine

Researcher of the Institute of Radio Astronomy, Nat. Acad. Sc. of Ukraine. Ph.D. in astrophysics and radio astronomy (Main Astronomical Observatory of Nat. Acad. Sci. of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1998; dissertation: "New approaches to the problem of search for extra-terrestrial intelligence"). Published in the fields of studying the decametric radio emissions of Jupiter and non-classical SETI (e.g.: archaeological reconnaissance of the Moon). Author of Selenites (Moscow: Novation, 1998, in Russian) and more than 100 articles. The SETI League's Volunteer Coordinator for Ukraine. Member of the SETI Center, Moscow, Russia.
Internet:
Curriculum vitae: www.setileague.org/admin/alexey.htm
Review of Selenites: www.setileague.org/articles/selenite.htm
Recent article: www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/arkhipov3.htm

Mr. Cesar Sirvent
cesarsirv@bch.navegalia.com
Physics - The University of Zaragosa, Spain

Former Director of the Science Magazine, Lumen.

Dr. Brian Oleary
Oleary@maui.net

Ph. D Astronomy, The University of California - Berkeley 1967. NASA scientist-astronaut during the Apollo Program and deputy team leader of the Mariner 10 Venus-Mercury television science team.

Dr. Horace Crater
hcrater@utsi.ed
Address: University of Tennessee, Space Institute, Tullahoma, TE 37388

Ph.D. Yale University, 1968. Professor of physics at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. Member of the American Physical Society in The Division of Particles and Fields and Topical Group of Few Body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics. Graduate-level teaching in the areas of Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, and General Relativity, among others. Fields of research: relativistic classical mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and meson spectroscopy. Author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles on physics in scholarly journals, including "Two-Body Dirac Equations," Annals of Physics; "Relativistic Naive Quark Model for Spinning Quarks in Mesons, " Physical Review Letters; "Structure of Quantum Mechanical Relativistic Two-Body Interactions for Spinning Particles, " Foundations of Physics. Also, co-author (with Dr. Stanley McDaniel) of "Mound Configurations on the Martian Cydonia Plain," Journal of Scientific Exploration.

Dr. David Webb
webbdc@earthlink.net

Former Dir. of Space Education, Research, and Technology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. Former member of the National Commission on Space under President Ronald Reagan. Internationally known consultant on Space Policy.

Summary of web sites:
Stan McDaniel: www.mcdanielreport.com
Tom Van Flandern: www.metaresearch.org
Mark Carlotto: www.psrw.com/~markc/marshome.html
Lan Fleming: www.vgl.org
John Levasseur: marsartifacts.tripod.com
Alexey Arkhipov: www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/arkhipov3.htm
James Erjavec: Final Frontiers, www.destinationspace.net/frontier/frontier.asp