Cyrus Noë has worked as a journalist over a 60-year period, and since 1982 has published energy newsletters as CEO and publisher of Energy NewsData. In 1989, Noë received the Administrator's Award for Exceptional Public Service from Bonneville Power Administration. His earlier career included work as a newspaper and wire-service reporter; college teacher in Montana and Washington; actor and theater technician; radio news director; disc jockey in Montana, New Orleans and Panama; logging-camp cook in Montana; U.S. Army intelligence analyst in San Francisco and Germany; producer of the world's first rock 'n roll festival at Sultan, Washington a year prior to Woodstock; political-campaign staffer; football and basketball sportscaster; Seattle World's Fair publicist; and law-enforcement consultant in the South Pacific. Cyrus has five children and three grandchildren. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Montana and completed course work for a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Cyrus and his wife Mary--NewsData's controller and vice president--live in Seattle.

Mark Ohrenschall is executive editor/associate publisher of Energy NewsData. He oversees editorial matters and works on other management ventures, while remaining an active writer/editor, with a focus on energy resource-related reporting and columns. He previously edited NewsData's Con.WEB and Conservation Monitor newsletters. He also contributed to a history of regional energy conservation for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Prior to moving to the Northwest and joining NewsData in 1991, Mark worked as an award-winning editor and reporter for several Colorado newspapers, after graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. in history. A resident of suburban Seattle, Mark enjoys family time with his wife, daughter and son; eclectic reading; coaching youth lacrosse; golf; and other sports and recreation.

Steve Ernst has been covering energy policy and resource development in the Pacific Northwest since 1999. In 2003, he joined Energy NewsData, for which he edits Clearing Up and Energy Prospects West. Prior to his tenure with NewsData, Steve covered venture capital, technology, energy and sports business for the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. His work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists and has appeared in MSNBC.com, Seattle Weekly and the Associated Press. In 2000, he was a fellow with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources. He has also moderated panels on regional and national energy policy, and has been a guest speaker on local radio stations. Steve lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.

Rick Adair has been news editor for Clearing Up since 2003. His duties include making sense of dozens of complex utility and court cases in play during any given week, and helping to maintain Clearing Up's high editorial standards. His prior experience includes covering the utility, science and environment beats of a biweekly newspaper at Lake Tahoe, where his work won several Nevada statewide awards. Before turning to journalism, Rick earned geophysics degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) and University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.). His research and engineering work touched on earthquakes, geothermal prospects, oil/gas hydraulic fracturing, advanced sonar, and processing Mars and lunar images. He has written and edited elementary and high school science-reference books.

Bill Rudolph has been an Energy NewsData staffer since 1996, when he jumped ship from Alaska Fisherman's Journal to become editor of NW Fishletter and assistant editor of Clearing Up, for which he specializes in fish-related coverage. Bill has participated in the salmon industry since his college days, and owned a commercial salmon troller until the early 1980s, when he switched gears and began a freelance-writing career. He has published many stories in The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, Alaska Fisherman's Journal and National Fisherman, and has served as a commentator for radio station KPLU. He attended Reed College and the University of Washington (B.A. in English), and did graduate work at San Francisco State University. He was named to the Roll of Honor, Best Stories of 1976, for some of his early fiction, which included a story about the Columbia River.

Ben Tansey has contributed as an editor and writer to Energy NewsData's various publications since 1993. He formerly served as editor of Clearing Up, and now edits Relicensing Review. In addition to his NewsData work, he is the author of a primer on the Northwest electric-power industry, and also provides mostly energy-related content and research to various clients. A graduate of the Evergreen State College, Ben is originally from California but came to Washington because he loves the rain.

Jude Noland is a senior contributing editor for Clearing Up. Her responsibilities include reporting--particularly on the environmental aspects of various resources, smart-grid developments and energy policy--column-writing and editing. She has more than 20 years of experience with Northwest energy issues, both as a radio and print journalist and as media-relations supervisor for a regional investor-owned utility. Jude joined Energy NewsData when the company launched Conservation Monitor in 1992, and served as editor of Clearing Up from 2000-2004. She has an M.A. in business communications from the University of Washington, and performs her reporting and editorial duties from her home office in Walla Walla in eastern Washington.

Penelope Kern focuses on resource development and energy policy in the Intermountain West for Energy Prospects and on NIMBY issues for Clearing Up. Prior to joining Energy NewsData, she covered the U.S.-Canada timber-trade dispute for various U.S. newspapers; supervised the design and editorial teams of a cross-cultural Hispanic magazine; and volunteered in the development of Seattle Animal Shelter's quarterly newsletter and community-outreach campaigns. She earned an M.A. in print journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was selected to represent UT as a Dow Jones News Fund editing fellow. As a DJNF intern, she served on the copy desk of a suburban New York daily newspaper. While at UT, Kern also supervised the editorial and design teams that created the university's nationally recognized student magazine, Orange. She and her husband split their time between Seattle and Twisp, Washington, and have two dogs, a few cats, one horse and several hundred rattlesnakes.

Chris Raphael has been editor of California Energy Markets since 2005. Originally from Virginia, he has an M.A. in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in political science from Loyola University, New Orleans. His work on a liquefied natural gas project in Peru, published for PBS Frontline World and washingtonpost.com, won an award from the Society of Environmental Journalists. He started his journalism career on the crime and courts beat.

Mavis Scanlon is associate editor of California Energy Markets, where she covers PG&E Corp., the California Energy Commission, and energy-related legislation, litigation and water issues. Before joining CEM in 2009, Mavis covered the banking and energy beats at the East Bay Business Times, where her work won several awards for business and investigative/enterprise reporting. She covered the energy and oilfield service sectors at TheStreet.com, and the cable TV industry for CableWorld magazine. Mavis earned an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from St. Francis University in Pennsylvania. A Long Island, N.Y. native, Mavis now lives in Oakland.

Hilary Corrigan covers the California Public Utilities Commission and issues connected to the state's investor-owned utilities. Before joining NewsData in July 2007, Hilary worked as a reporter at award-winning daily and weekly newspapers in Delaware and Northern California. She focused mainly on environmental issues -- water and air quality; fishing and endangered species; power plants and dams; land use and development. Hilary earned a B.A. degree in journalism from St. Michael's College in Vermont.

Leora Broydo Vestel rejoined California Energy Markets as a staff writer in April 2011. She was also a staffer at CEM from 2003 to 2005. Leora has worked as a journalist for more than 15 years, and has contributed articles to many publications, including the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and The Sacramento Bee. After graduating from Occidental College in 1990, she lived overseas, working for ABC News in London and Prognosis newspaper in Prague. Leora lives in San Francisco with her husband and two kids. In her free time she's been working on her own wind-energy project: learning to windsurf.