Dr. Sarah Parcak is an Archaeologist and the founding Director of the Laboratory for Global Health Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also holds a tenure-track position in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Anthropology, and secondary appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health. Dr. Parcak is a recognized expert in the use of remote sensing via satellite imagery analysis to detect archaeological sites, many of which were previously unknown. She is the director of the Middle Egypt Survey Project, and co-directs RESCUE (for Remote Sensing and Coring of Uncharted Egyptian Sites), a major survey project in Egypt, with her husband, Dr. Greg Mumford, also based at UAB. Dr. Parcak has published widely in archaeological journals, and has written Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology (Routledge, 2009), the first methods book to ever appear on the subject of satellite archaeology. She has received extensive media coverage for her work in satellite archaeology by the Discovery Channel (where she was featured in “Why Ancient Egypt Fell”), The Economist, The Times, Popular Science, National Geographic News, and internet-based news channels such as LiveScience, Google, AOL, Yahoo and MSNBC.