Bill Gardiner is a principal in a family owned environmental analysis laboratory established in 1981. He operates during the day as an analytical chemist and moonlights at night on R&D in chemistry and basic science related to fundamental concepts and processes in chemosynthesis and computer-assisted analysis.

Bill has been a member of NSS and its predecessors since 1975. He is president of the Greater Atlanta Chapter and has also been chair of the NSS Atlanta Special Physics Study Committee since 1998. He has served three terms on the NSS Board of Directors for Region 5 (1990-1992, 2002-2004, and 2008-2010).

Bill lives and works with his wife and four children in Jonesboro, Georgia, a suburb of greater Atlanta.