Andy Dean

Andy is a geographical information systems and remote sensing scientist who has worked and travelled in several countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. From 2008 to 2011 Andy was Vice President of PT Hatfield Indonesia, an environmental, forestry and geomatics consulting company based in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Andy is now based at Hatfield Consultants office in Vancouver, Canada.

Andy implemented gunungbagging.com using WordPress and by extensively customising an existing WordPress theme; Andy also completed the prominence analysis using software tools and elevation data to systematically identify the Ribus and calculate their elevation and prominence. Andy hopes to continue bagging volcanoes when he visits Indonesia. 

Daniel Quinn

Dan is an English teacher, researcher and editor previously based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dan is also a composer and music producer. During 2009 he was Artistic Director for a gamelan recording project in Solo, Central Java. Previous projects include London-based avant-rock ensemble One More Grain and Edinburgh-based innovative music label Suilven Recordings.

Dan is the lead writer for gunungbagging.com and the coordinator of the content development, including compiling and editing user-submitted routes and photographs. Dan also contributes regularly to various cultural magazines and websites on a broad range of topics.

Since early 2012, Dan lives in Hong Kong and writes ‘cultural commentary’ at Bubbington Dump. However, he continues to maintain and moderate Gunung Bagging from afar!