I received BS degrees in Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics, with a Math minor from the Pennsylvania State University in 1997. I've worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center during the summer of 1996 and from 1997-present.
Some recent highlights:
- A profile of me on NASA.gov
- A NASA.gov feature on my first flash telescope game, Scope It Out.
- A NASA.gov feature I wrote on the visit that the NASA Blueshift team took to the set of the CBS show, "The Big Bang Theory." Set photos, blog entries, and interview with the exec producer, Bill Prady. We've had lots of the stuff we've brought/sent them appear on the sets of the show!
- I edited together a number of podcasts for Blueshift, but First Light, Last Paycheck had one of the more complex stories to tell and so it is one of the ones I'm proudest of. (I also got the chance to touch real Hubble hardware!) On the other hand making a Blair Witch parody when we highlighted Building 2 was pretty epic too.
- Other podcasts I edited: At the Edge of Space (interview with astronaut hopeful, scientist Joe Hill), A Meeting of the Minds (tour of the AAS meeting), Looking Back to the Future, And the Award Goes to... (award show parody with serious John Mather interview), Blueshift Goes to the Movies (one of my favs for humor), Making Data Beautiful, 400 years, 100 hours (in which we talk with a fake Galileo), and Zooming Through the Universe.
- I got to help out with the filming of a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon segment, "Hubble Gotchu". Blueshift behind-the-scenes blog and a follow-up.
- Actor Seth Green visited Goddard and I got to meet him! And there's video evidence! At 22 seconds in, you can see me telling Seth something about the centrifuge and he looks impressed. :D
- NASA Blueshift worked with "Fancy Fast Food" blogger Erik Trinidad to make this fun video about space food. I wrote up this feature (page 9, pdf) for Goddard View on the shoot.
A few older highlights:
- X-ray Spectroscopy and the Chemistry of Supernova Remnants: A series of lesson plans
- Take a Journey of Discovery with RXTE unit
- Shedding a New Light on the Universe - a booklet/website that introduces multiwavelength astronomy and the RXTE satellite. (Download a pdf)
These are the various projects I've worked on: