Asia Pacific University (APU) Staff
	Professor Monte Cassim, President of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan and Vice-Chancellor of Ritsumeikan Trust. As Professor of Environmental Science, his research centers on biodiversity regeneration in tropical ecosystems and life cycle assessment of production processes and service delivery systems. He also works on health informatics and knowledge discovery in health and environmental systems. His work with GRC is mostly concerned with defining the environmental systems underlying the interaction of the variable mix described by the Eno-humanas project.  He has published extensively and is a regular speaker at conferences and such venue as United Nation on environmental issues. email: m-cassim@apu.ac.jp
	Professor Bill Claster, Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan. Principally an statistician, Bill's research areas include text and data mining, eLearning, and geoinformatics and environmental factors in grape growing for wine production. He is working with the GRC on novel approaches to normalise mixed data type results from the data being collected from various sensors and stored real-time in the GRC database.  He has published numerous journal articles and conference papers in applied statistics particularly in cluster analysis and data depiction techniques. email: wclaster@apu.ac.jp