Geoff (Jiffy) Kershaw - Half pirate, half rasta, and a half miler, Jiffy is one and a half times taller than your average dendrochronologist.  He likes aspen a lot.  This is strange, but then again, so is Geoff.  He likes his laptop an aweful lot too, perhaps too much, and is prone to weeping when they don't have their quality time together. Geoff is well into music, and his hobbies include passionate didgeridoo solos in the MAD Lab, which tend to echo through the entire building.  Geoff and his didgeridoo know all of the security guards on campus, the local by-law officer, and of course all of the town RCMP by first name. Well as long as he has his little black name book with him at least.  
gkershaw@mta.ca

Bryan (Jobs) Mood - Bryan can be a bit stunned most of the time.  Hmmm, not too much else to say here...  Oh ya, he also complains nearly all the time...well perhaps constantly is a better word.  Never one to sit quiet, Bryan can always be counted on to say an inappropriate thing, at the most inappropriate time.  Hired to be a computer programmer in the MAD Lab, he has learned almost every computer language possible through a series of failures. When he fails to accomplish task one with the first language, he learns a new programming language and fails with that one too. Luckily he is a master baker, and brings in baked goods on most days and all road trips.  For this, he is a highly regarded member of the MAD Lab team. Bryan's favourite cookie is currently a milk chocolate centered ginger snap.
bjmood@mta.ca

Cecilia (CC) Jennings - Taking time out of her career goal of creating world peace, CC has blessed the MAD Lab with her presence.  Just having her around us has made us all better people, mainly because she has told us so. Her background is nearly everything and that fits in well as, we usually give her everything to do.  Well every job we can think of at least, and to date, she has accomplished them all. Her forte includes, interior design, cooking potluck masterpieces, classical music and musical instruments (specializing in violins, mandolins, and accordians), woodworking equipment, labour relations, as well as alcohol, tobacco and firearms laws of the United States and Canada. Cecilia is an English major and a Leo.
cnjennings@mta.ca

Jay (Chick Allan) Maillet - Jay likes to rock, and he is easily the second best musician in the lab, well maybe third. Being in the top ten musician's in the Lab has its own special priviledges. Because Jay has a proven record of sitting in one spot for a long time playing a guitar, mosquitoes, black flies and other flying meat eaters, find Jay particularly tastey. To feed their hunger, Jay eats too. Jay has the second biggest appetite in the MAD Lab, well maybe third (behind Jiffy and Jiffy). Chick Allan gets giddy as a school girl when it comes to eating, second only perhaps to the mosquitoes that hover around him. Well, maybe third...Chuckles has a pretty good following of meat eaters too. Jay is also a dancer, and a worrier (probably second best).
jmaillet@mta.ca

Stu (Stooge) Murray - Understanding the zen art of dendrochronology, Stu's aura has brought him to the MAD Lab. Although we like him, Stooge has a reputation of being in a continuous speed wobble, perhaps from his previous training as a former Chemistry major. To knock the living Chemistry out of him, we have subjected him to a series of tree-ring acronyms like XRF, EDXRF, and especially WDXRF. When that didn't work, we sent him to the Canadian Light Source, and more importantly the dorm rooms at the U of S in a heat wave to sweat out the last bit of Chemistry he had. 
sgmurray@mta.ca