Richard Wainscoat has a PhD in Astronomy from the Australian National University. After working for a few years at NASA Ames Research Center in California, he moved to Hawaii in order to be able to use the large telescopes on Maunakea and Haleakala. He now leads efforts to find asteroids that may come close to, or impact Earth using the Pan-STARRS telescopes on Haleakala. He has been actively working to preserve the dark night skies over Hawaii’s observatories for the last 20 years.