Erika Blumenfeld is an independent transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, science, nature and culture. Her research-based art practice is motivated by the wonder of natural phenomena and she often works in collaboration with scientists and research institutions, including NASA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the McDonald Observatory, and the South African National Antarctic Program. Blumenfeld is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, and has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad. Blumenfeld is artist-in-residence and Science-Principal Investigator on the Astromaterials 3D project at ARES where she is leading a team to create a 3D virtual library of NASA's astromaterials collections to bring high-resolution research-grade 3D models to researchers and the public. Blumenfeld conceived the project in 2013, and she and the Astromaterials 3D team won a NASA ROSES PDART grant in 2015 to pursue the project. The Astromaterials 3D project launched to the public in December 2020 and will continue to roll out new samples ongoing.

Dorthe Wildenschild (M.S and PhD. Danish Technical University) is a professor of environmental engineering in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. Her research focuses on flow and transport in porous media, addressing research questions related to subsurface water pollution and energy-related storage. Recent work includes the optimization of geologic storage of anthropogenic CO2 in subsurface reservoirs; exploration of colloid-facilitated transport of contaminants in groundwater; microbial enhanced oil recovery and biofilm growth in porous media; and investigations in support of more effective groundwater remediation techniques. She currently runs an NSF-funded microtomography user facility at Oregon State.

Hannah Wood has been a Research Scientist and Curator at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution since 2015. Prior to this position, she had two postdoctoral fellowships: she was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Advance Light Source Synchrotron, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and the University of California, Davis, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011. Her research uses computed tomography scanning to understand evolution and functional morphology of spider “jaws”.