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Projects
3DAstronomy: a collaboration with A. Nota (STScI/ESA), Perry Greenfield (STScI) and Noreen Grice (YouCanDoAstronomy) to name a few, creating a process to produce tactile representations of HST images and data for the visually impaired. Our project webpage has a description and a gallery.
Google Sky: a collaboration with A. Conti (STScI) and Google to
bring HST data to the public and create a portal to astronomical resources for science research using the
GoogleEarth
technology. See the gSky page.
SkyWatch:
was
a weekly radio vignette on
Baltimore's NPR, WYPR, FM station (88.1)
discussing the latest astronomy news. I now co-host the Hubble Hangouts series on Google+.
Department of State Satellite Image of the Week: A website devloted to bringing
examples of the use of commercial, unclassified satellite imagery for foreign policy and diplomacy. Development,
Technology, & Innovation: a Division I created and headed in 2001 to look at innovative
and distruptive ways to improve our processes and operations.
SharkCage
Innovation Project: I invented this methodology to take advantage of nuermous innovation and process improvement strategies to
critically look at was to improve our service to users. An example is the
"where is my data"
project or Hubble DataTracker.
Our
first webcast of the STScI Spring Symposium (Dark Matter) was in 2001. We published a
report on webcasting
and and the rest, as they say, is digital history.
The
travel project (ask for report) was aprecursor to using online travel services
when all our processes were restricted to paper.
Public Outreach
SIRTF Archive
Local
OPO Information
Office of Public Outreach
- 1995-2000 Visit
OPO website
This office strove to provide an environment making
science research as broadly accessible and relevant to the public
through projects that engage the astronomy and astrophysics communities
of researchers, engineers and technologists both at STScI and nation-wide.
During my tenure as Head of the Office, OPO investigated methods
that sensibly integrated the astrophysics community into public
programs and dissemination networks. The staff in OPO, backed by
the Institute, was strongly supporting evolution of the research
culture so that scientists and engineers are motivated to take an
active role in science communication. Specific activities included:
- Showcasing results from HST through News
and Journalist services.
- Supporting pilot programs and evaluation
- Fostering the creation of raw materials,
resources and tools for educational use
- Employing emerging technology in experimental
programs
- Supporting Teacher professional development
- Pursuing strategic partnerships to support
national programs
We were very responsive to the implementation
plan adopted by NASA's
Office of Space Science and the ORIGINS program, and our mission
and strategy reflected our committment.
Education Resource Review
For educational resources, I guided OPO in constructing
a review
process and a framework / guidelines for review. The actual
evaluation and review instruments are derived from these documents.
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