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The following are members of the Internet Scout Development Team.




Staff Photo Susan Calcari
Project Director and Internet Scout
e-mail: scal@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.265.8042

Susan Calcari has been writing and speaking about the Internet since 1989 when she joined the NSFNET project at Merit Network at the University of Michigan. While at Merit she developed and produced the first series of Internet seminars geared toward the end user, which ran from 1990 - 1992. In May of 1994 She created the Scout Report newsletter, and wrote it every week for over two years. Recently she discovered the fine art of hiring smart people to do all the work, so now as Project Director of the Internet Scout Project at UW-Madison, she works to focus efforts on the development of new resource discovery tools for the higher education community. Susan moved to Madison to escape the crowds of Southern California, and soon afterwards the city was named The Best Place to Live in America (1996). A coincidence?




Staff Photo Jack Solock
Internet Librarian
e-mail: jacks@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.262.6606

Jack has been an Internet Librarian for Internet Scout since 1995. He is the Editor of the Scout Report and the three new subject specific Scout Reports, and is responsible for the Scout Select Bookmarks, Searching the Internet and a portion of the Internet Publications sections of the Scout Toolkit. In addition, he writes the monthly End User's Corner columns for the InterNIC News. He lives in Madison with his wife and two cats, and is a recently converted Cheesehead Packer Backer (until they lose three in a row, anyway!)




Staff Photo Gleason Sackman
Moderator, Net-happenings
e-mail: gleason@rrnet.com

Gleason's been part of the Internet's in-crowd longer than most people have had a modem. He originated the Net-happenings mailing list, four years ago, and became part of the Internet Scout team in 1996. He works in North Dakota, so he has the distinction of being the only Internet Scout actively patrolling the frontier.




Staff Photo Matt Livesey
Writer
e-mail: mlivesey@cs.wisc.edu

Matt, our former Production Editor, recently obtained his Ph.D. in English and has moved to California. He now writes for various projects and is a general consultant when needed. Equipped with a cell phone before he left, Matt still is at the beck and call of our Project Director, at least until he passes through a canyon. The most feared and hated person on any project is the one with the red pen, and Matt's got it. He's responsible for the grammatical and stylistic integrity of Internet Scout's printed and web materials, and also for making sure that everyone looks nervously over their shoulder when they are about to type a semicolon.




Staff Photo Amy Tracy Wells
Coordinator, Scout Report Signpost
e-mail: awel@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.263.2611

A Florida native who wandered into Wisconsin, Amy is using her technical background in online systems to make the information collected by Internet Scouts more accessible via the Scout Report Signpost. She is coordinating our research into distributed search systems for library collections and learning the difference between mittens and gloves.




Staff Photo Aimee Glassel
Internet Cataloger
e-mail: aglassel@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.263.6008

Aimee is retrospectively cataloging our Scout Report archive to make it more accessible via the Scout Report Signpost. Prior to Internet Scout, she cataloged textiles (mostly handkerchiefs) for two years at the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. Not your ordinary cataloger, she came complete with her own set of "red books"!




Staff Photo Teri Boomsma
Webmaster
e-mail: tboomsma@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.263.2644

Teri is one of the fastest HTML coders in these parts. She marks up and distributes the various versions of the Scout Report and maintains the Internet Scout Web site. She is also responsible for the Web Tools and a portion of the Internet Publications sections of the Scout Toolkit.




Staff Photo Sheilah Harrington
Internet Cataloger
e-mail:sheilah@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.265.4033

Sheilah is retrospectively cataloging our Scout Report archive to make it more accessible, the goal of which is to provide subject-based access to the Scout Report.




Staff Photo Gerri Wanserski
Internet Cataloger
e-mail: gwanser@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.265.4033

Gerri is retrospectively cataloging our Scout Report archive to make it more accessible, the goal of which is to provide subject-based access to the Scout Report.




Staff Photo Michael de Nie
Subject Specialist, Project Assistant
e-mail: mwdenie@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.262.6605

Michael is the Assistant Editor and Subject Specialist for the Scout Report for Social Sciences. He also does the HTML markup for the subject-specific reports. Originally from New Jersey, he struck out west in search of high adventure, buried treasure, and a doctorate in Irish History. He and his wife Karen live in downtown Madison with two cats and a dog. Michael enjoys camping, the colors yellow and purple, and Tex Avery cartoons. He is also quite fond of breakfast cereals.




Staff Photo Jeannine Ramsey
Production Editor
e-mail: ramsey@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.262.6607

No stranger to harsh climate or good polka, this native Wisconsinite wields her sharp pen and squints her critical eye at the Written Word--in print or electronic form--as it filters past her desk from the various chambers of the Internet Scout to readers everywhere, even in warm, temperate places.




Staff Photo Thiam Hee Ng
Project Assistant
e-mail: thiamng@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.262.6605

Thiam Hee annotates business and economics related web sites for the Scout Report. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Economics. Before arriving at Wisconsin, he lived and worked in Malaysia.




Staff Photo Kathryn Harris
Project Assistant
e-mail: kharris@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.262.6605

Kathy completed her MS in Civil Engineering this past May but is staying for one more year to finish a MS in Water Resource Management. She will be surfing the net to find new and interesting Web sites in the Physical Sciences and Engineering fields. Kathy is a native flatlander (Illinois) but has adapted to Wisconsin's pace of life. After finishing her second master's, Kathy hopes to go West or East or anywhere she can find a job and enter the so-called real world.




Staff Photo David Flaspohler
Project Assistant
e-mail: djflaspo@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.262.6605

Born in the "show-me" state of Missouri, David grew up collecting cicada shells and beetles in the fleshy, southwest palm of Michigan. While working on his doctorate in Wildlife Ecology, he skeptically evaluates and annotates life-science web sites for the Scout Report. He and his wife settled in Madison in 1989 with two moody cats and have added two of their own progeny since.




Staff Photo Christopher Lukas
Associate Researcher
e-mail: lukas@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.265.4678

Chris is a relatively new addition to the project. He is a code monkey with a dose of research experience who helps out with various system tasks and will be involved in the project's new research directions. Passing though south-central Wisconsin, he and his wife Erika were caught in the graduate student Madison event horizon and now cannot escape the ever mellow and pleasant city. He bikes to work almost every day (even in winter), and his cat can leap 6 feet straight up.




Staff Photo Mike Roszkowski
Researcher
e-mail: mfr@cs.wisc.edu
phone: 608.265.9234

Mike is involved in the project's research efforts. He has worked as a software developer, consultant, and network engineer for organizations in Wisconsin, California and North Carolina. Outside of work, Mike and his wife, Sheilah, are trying to teach their daughter not to lick cats.




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