I live in Calgary, Canada, and used to work in the oil-and-gas exploration field, processing seismic data. I now am semi-retired, and drive a school bus for a local high school.

The photo is a composite, courtesy of Mike Mah who was with me on an expedition I co-led to observe the June 8th 2004 Transit of Venus from Luxor, Egypt. It shows the Sun in hydrogen-alpha emission (about 656 nm wavelength) with Venus visible as a dark spot in the lower half. Superimposed on that image is one of a statue of one of the very rare female pharaohs, Hatshepsut, from her temple near Luxor.

I've been around since 1951, in the seismic industry since 1979, and a member of the RASC since 1983. I served as President of the Society from 2012-2014, and had asteroid 380480 named Glennhawley after me by the IAU in 2014. I started running the first successful distributed computing program, SETI, a few months after it went fully public in 1999. Now that BOINC is available I've "distributed" my computing efforts to include Einstein as well as Asteroids.