Weather Permitting is a collaborative project between:

Kathryn Yusoff is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Exeter, Cornwall. Her research centres on re-thinking visual culture in relation to extreme environments and emerging technologies of vision.

Currently she is working on POLAR: The art and science of climate change, a multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-08). The project is supported by a grant from the Arts Council, England, the Open University and in-kind support from the British Library.

Her recent publications include "Landscape: 3 Acts," published through Proboscis e-books (2006); "Mapping the Disaster: Global Prediction and the Medium of 'Digital Earth,'" in Leonardo Electronic Almanac (2006); and "Time Lapses: Robert Smithson's Mobile Landscapes" (with Jennifer Gabrys), published in Cultural Geographies (2006). She can be contacted at: Geography Discipline, Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK; email: k [dot] yusoff [at] exeter [dot] ac [dot] uk.

Jennifer Gabrys is Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she teaches courses on design and the environment.

She is currently completing a book-length study on electronic waste, The Natural History of Electronics. She also investigates the intersection of ecologies and technologies with the ongoing project, Signal Space.

Essays she has written include, “Media in the Dump” published in Trash: Alphabet City Magazine (2006); “Appliance Theory,” published in Cabinet Magazine (2006); and Airdrop, published through Bookworks (2004). She is also a contributing editor to the bi-annual Surface Tension supplement. She can be contacted via email at mail [at] signalspace [dot] net.