Hello, dear astronomy enthusiasts and friends and followers and encirclers… This month has been heavy on GET STUFF DONE, but I’m taking a much needed break this weekend for Dragon*Con in Atlanta. This is the East Coast’s biggest sci-fi, fantasy, geek, nerd, etc. convention. I hope you are coming as well! My only official event…
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Travelogues, Part 3: To the Karoo
Welcome to my series of posts about my research trip to South Africa in June/July! See also parts one and two… (As usual, all writing on this blog is solely my opinion and does not reflect the attitudes of any of my projects, institutions, colleagues, etc…) June 23: Wait… wait… wait… GO! Today, we wake,…
Travelogues, Part 2: Cape Town, South Africa
This summer has included a LOT of travel. Here is the next installment of my travelogues! (See also, Part 1) (As usual, all writing on this blog is solely my opinion and does not reflect the attitudes of any of my projects, institutions, colleagues, etc…) June 22: Day 1 in Cape Town We met up…
Radio Astronomy in Africa, #PSA64
Wanted to drop a quick “hello!” out there as I haven’t continued my travelogues here. Lots of work, little free time, and very little internet time have all contributed to that. However, I’m still writing here and there and taking lots and lots of pictures, all to be seen soon after I get home next…
Travelogues: To Africa!
Greetings from South Africa! As you may know by now, I’m on a research trip to build out the Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization, or PAPER, out to a 64-antenna radio astronomy array. My advisor, Rich Bradley, and resident technical wonder, Pat Klima, and I have spent two days in Cape Town…
Leaving on a jet plane! #psa64
And all the planning and craziness leading up to today is over. Let the adventure begin! I’m heading to South Africa to work on The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization, aka PAPER, aka the project on which i am writing my thesis. I’ve talked about PAPER a bit before, as it is…
Astronomers Without Borders
Hey! Just a quick note to plug a really cool organization called Astronomers Without Borders. They asked me to write a guest blog for them for Global Astronomy Month, and you can see that here. I’ll be crossing some borders of my own as I head off to South Africa in late June! Dates are…
Green chile mania
Still recovering from my New Mexico trip, followed by a successful outreach event with the Girl Scouts at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center. And then struggling to find disk space for the many GBs of data that are coming from our telescope! The fun never ends. So, in honor of New Mexico, I give you bit…
Thrust or Bust!!!! STS-133…
SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Okay, yeah I’m excited. I was idly wondering on Twitter whether I should take advantage of the fact that I had a free weekend that coincided with the next launch attempt of the space shuttle. Lo and behold, the fabulous @JahdavusRex mentioned he had 4 launch viewing tickets that he couldn’t use. One thing…
Conference Travel: URSI Day 3
I have written about some interesting highlights from the annual National Radio Sciences Meeting of URSI in Boulder, CO, and would like to finish that off with a topic near and dear to my brain: radio astronomy through the ionosphere. Low frequency radio astronomy has enjoyed a resurgence in the last few years, partly driven…
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