FMARS-8 Crew Biographies Digby Tarvin Digby Tarvin is a software engineer specializing in real-time and embedded control systems and operating systems. He holds an honors degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and is currently studying for a second degree in Physics, Astronomy and Planetary Science at the Open University in the UK. He was born Australia, growing up in the city of Wollongong, and moved to Sydney on starting university. He moved to the UK in 1993, from which he runs a software consultancy. He has worked on projects all over the world, from Australian submarines to Russian steel mills and Korean broadcast systems, as well as spending several years as an academic at the University of New South Wales, where he taught "operating systems" and "computer organization and design". He holds both Australian and UK citizenship. Digby has a long-time interest in space exploration and is an active member of the Mars Society, the Planetary Society, and the National Space Society, several Computer Societies, the Institute of Physics and the OU Physics Society, of which he is a committee member. As well as Mars Society Conventions, he has participated in three Planetary Society expeditions, including Italy, Antarctica and Belize, and attended several events organized by the International Research School of Planetary Sciences. He enjoys skiing and other adventure sports, travel, reading, and pretty much anything else that involves learning something interesting.
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