Ground Patrol Captain Celliers – Piers John Sellers
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Ground_Patrol_Captain_Celliers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Sellers
Ground Patrol Captain Celliers is a member of a Light Brigade patrol unit sent to recon a house with unusually high Shadow activity. Wizards rescue him during the quest House Oddity.
Piers John Sellers OBE (April 11, 1955 – December 23, 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom, until 1973, and achieved a bachelor’s degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. In 2011, Sellers retired from the NASA Astronaut Corps.
Before joining the astronaut corps, Sellers worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on research into how the Earth’s biosphere and atmosphere interact. This work involved climate system computer modelling and field work utilizing aircraft, satellites and ground support input.
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