Dr. E.C. Krupp is an astronomer and Director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, which is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

As Director, Dr. Krupp led the recently completed $93-million renovation and expansion of Griffith Observatory, a project he conceived and shepherded through design, fundraising, construction, restoration, reactivation, and return to space.

A graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California, Dr. Krupp earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of Astronomy at U.C.L.A., where he studied the properties of rich clusters of galaxies under the guidance of the late Dr. George O. Abell. Now recognized internationally as an expert on ancient, prehistoric, and traditional astronomy, Dr. Krupp has visited nearly 1900 sites throughout the world and regularly leads field study tours to exotic locations that have astronomical and archaeological interest. He is the author of several books on ancient astronomy and the celestial component of belief systems, including In Search of Ancient Astronomies, Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science, and Echoes of the Ancient Skies. Dr. Krupp's fourth book on ancient astronomy, Beyond the Blue Horizon—Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets, was published in 1991 and is a worldwide comparative study of celestial mythology. Skywatchers, Shamans, & Kings—Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in 1997. He has also written four illustrated astronomy books for children, including The Comet and You, The Big Dipper and You, The Moon and You, and The Rainbow and You. His books have been published in the U.K., Germany, Poland, Russia, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, and Japan.

Dr. Krupp and his books have won several national prizes in the U.S., and he lectures frequently on archaeoastronomical subjects as well as on other astronomical topics, including fads, myths, and pseudoscience. At this time, he is most frequently asked to discuss the 2012 Maya calendar Doomsday follies.

Dr. Krupp is a contributing editor for Sky & Telescope and wrote a monthly column, “Rambling Through the Skies,” for this nationally distributed magazine from September, 1993, through December, 2008. It emphasized the cultural component of astronomy. He has written hundreds of articles for the general reader and has published dozens of research papers on various aspects of ancient astronomy, including astronomy and rock art, sky myth and constellation lore, pseudoscience, Egyptian astronomy, Hittite monuments, California Indian astronomy, art and astronomy, astronomy and ceremony in Imperial China, North American Indian astronomy, and Maya astronomy.

Dr. Krupp was the on-camera host of the "Project: Universe" telecourse, which was broadcast throughout the U.S. and internationally and repeated for more than a decade on numerous occasions until the volume of astronomical discovery unforgivingly overtook the third update of the series. He continues to appear often on Los Angeles and national television and radio.

E.C. Krupp is a past member of the Board of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, past Chairman of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society, an advisor for the American Rock Art Research Association, a Fellow of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, a member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union, listed in Who's Who in America and similar compilations, and is a Fellow of the Explorer's Club.