Space Conference Speaker

William W. “Bill” Gardiner is a professional environmental scientist (MSES, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University 1976) who operates Analytech, a Division of Laboratory Consulting Sources, Inc outside of Atlanta continuously since 1981. He is a Licensed Water Analyst (LWA) registered in the State of Georgia. Bill has been a participating member since 1975 of the National Space Society and the predecessor L-5 Society, founded on the vision of Gerard O’Neill. He has served as the Southeast Regional NSS Board member three times, Secretary to the Executive Committee, chair of the NSS Roadmap committee in 2012, co-founder of the Breakthrough Science and Technology Committee, is the current chair of the NSS Space Health and Medicine Committee, and was chair of the Space Health Track of the 2018, 2019 and 2020 conferences. He has also been a regular speaker at the Mars Society conventions 2014-2020. His NSS committees have been developing a new understanding of energy and material transfers in and from the environment of space, CELSS/ECLSS, health and nutrition. He refers to this effort as “Living in Space as a Model for Living on Earth.