Dr. Mike Botts is President of Botts Innovative Research, Inc. and GeoRobotix, Inc., both of which support the development and commercialization of OpenSensorHub (https://opensensorhub.org), an open source, open standards based software platform capable of supporting virtually any sensor or sensor network. OpenSensorHub supports the deployment of OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) and Sensor Things API standards on widely distributed OSH nodes, enabling the discovery and common description of sensors systems, the standardization of observations and tasking of sensors, things, and robots, and the ready coupling of sensors and actuators to processing and workflows. In the oceans community, Dr. Botts has worked with Q2O and the XDomes projects, both focused on supporting provenance of oceanographic observations through the application of the OGC SensorML standard which Dr. Botts helped create. Through OpenSensorHub, standards-based access has been provided for several large networks of environmental sensor systems, such as the USGS Stream Gauges, the NDBC buoy network, and DARPA Ocean of Things floats.

Michael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution that combines the highest levels of academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact—a model he terms the “New American University.” Under his direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges of our time, as well as those central to the quality of life, sustainable development, and economic competitiveness of Arizona and the nation. He has committed the university to sustainability, social embeddedness, and global engagement, and championed initiatives leading to record levels of diversity in the student body.