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Webinar: Mapping the Milky Way and Beyond
After a lengthly hiatus I am back on line in the midst of the pandemic and related chaos. On Thursday, 8 October 2020, I presented an invited webinar concerning study of the Milky Way Galaxy structure and evolution at LIneA – Interinstitutional Laboratory of e-Astronomy, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was live on…
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The NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Under construction in the foothills of the Chilean Andes. Check out this new Promotional Video.
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Hawai’i
It was 30 years ago when I first came to the summit of Maunakea. I had just moved to Hilo from Santa Fe, New Mexico having accepted an engineering position with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. In the intervening decades I came back and forth to that island, and that mountain, as an engineer and, later,…
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Update on the Astrophysics Front
As an observational astronomer I’ve been mostly focused on the topics of star formation and the interstellar medium within our own galaxy. Here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to recently. In May 2019 elected as co-chair for the LSST Stars, Milky Way, and Local Volume Science Collaboration. The overarching goals of the SMWLV…