Murray has been at the forefront of developing new methodologies for environmental research and monitoring. He developed the low level aerial strip-sampling method and has 19,000 in-command hours flying low level in Africa and SE Asia, covering 5.5 million km². He founded RMR in 1966, and led the team developing the tethered balloon operational methods and applications from 2002. Murray’s experience of aerial interpretation, observation and appropriate non-parametric sampling approaches, coupled with his knowledge of light aircraft management, operations and piloting in remote locations mean he has the capacity to offer practical and ingenious solutions for problems concerning collection and analysis of all types of field information. Murray has operated the Tethered Balloon for equipment commissioning work and tests in Laos, and for field and Civil Aviation Authority approval trials, in Kenya and the United Kingdom.

Jenny has 30 year’s experience working with RMR in Africa and Europe as a biological researcher and data base specialist. Her experiences include managing field work crews in Somali rangelands, air photo interpretation, survey data management, and writing computer programmes to analyse and report the results of extensive (750,000 km²) resource inventory surveys. Jenny manages the RMR hard copy archives, and studies patterns of energy use and coal consumption in UK for commercial clients.

Sean has 18 years experience with RMR in field work in Laos, Thailand, China, Somalia, Ukraine, Malaysia and Mexico. His expertise includes water quality monitoring, biofuels, crop trials and agronomic experiments, aerial photography and satellite imagery interpretation, studies of controlled forest fire temperatures, biomass degradation in reservoirs, project management, social and environmental impact assessments, and regulation compliance in developing countries. He has prepared carbon cycles analyses for renewable energy projects (for CDM application) and country level power system strategy studies. He is also an experienced hydrological investigator, and has designed and carried out the rating of river gauging stations. He has designed and managed investigations, through sampling and monitoring programmes, of social and environmental conditions for 5,000 families affected by new flow and flood regimes, and proposed appropriate mitigation measures. Sean is an experienced and approved hydrogen gas balloon operator.

Peter has 12 years experience with RMR as an engineer. Peter manages information throughout RMR's research and management activities, and creates the numerous models needed to manage and understand hydrological and other complex systems. He was instrumental in developing remote communication systems for the balloon cameras, and providing, and developing the software packages to convert the images to ortho-photo maps and reliable 3-D models. He has devised and applied methods and systems for rapid ground survey in unfavourable terrain. He operates a total GIS for all RMR Contract work enabling time and place of all records (observations, events, notes, interviews, photographs, TEBIS frames, digital climatic data, measurements, samples and their results) to be swiftly integrated, analysed and reported. He makes ground surveys of structures and damage for verification of drawings, and calibrating TEBIS imagery.