Dr. Mark S. Rea, professor of Architecture and Cognitive Sciences at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Since its inception, the LRC at RPI has been devoted to promoting the effective use of light for society and environment. For the military, they have helped implement new duty schedules and lighting systems on submarines, improved performance of airfield landing lights, developed methods for enhancing the performance of warfighters at night and developed potential early warning systems for naval aviators becoming hypoxic.
