Andy is an engineer, designer, and builder of generally cool things. He previously designed and built the Global Focus microscope - a small and inexpensive fluorescent microscope that currently has 20 prototypes being tested in the US, Central America, Africa. (Editor’s note: and was written up in the NY times..no big deal or anything.) He currently lives in Oakland, works as a medical device design engineer in San Francisco/Berkeley, and looks at Notcot and Ffffound at least 100 times a day.

Tess is enthusiastic about adventures, running around like a kid, science-based design projects, looking at/climbing on rocks, and reading 10 books at once. She studied geology at UC Santa Cruz, spent several years working as a geologist for an environmental consultant, and is currently a resident naturalist at UGA Costa Rica, a University of Georgia campus and field station located just below the Monteverde cloud forests.