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Experience:
Research Fellow, McDonald Observatory, November 2014 - to present
Senior Research Scientist, McDonald Observatory, September
1993- November 2014 (retired)
Superintendent, McDonald Observatory, November 2009 – November 2014
Program Director, National Science Foundation, Feb 2006 –
Aug 2009 (rotator IPA)
Associate Director, McDonald Observatory, September
1987- August 2001
Commissioning Manager for the 9.2m Hobby-Eberly Telescope,
July 1997-September 1999
Assistant Director, McDonald Observatory, December
1980-August 1987
Research Scientist and Assistant to the Director, McDonald
Observatory, September 1978-November 1980
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas,
September 1972-August 1978
Assistant Dean, University of Texas, September 1973-January
1974 (half-time)
Research Scientist Associate IV, University of Texas, September 1971-August 1972
W.J. McDonald Fellow, McDonald Observatory, September
1970-August 1971
Education:
University of Toronto (Ontario), September 1966-August 1970
Ph.D.
(Astronomy), December 1970
Dissertation:
"Near Infrared Photometry of Long Period Variable Stars"
M.Sc.
(Astronomy), February 1968
Thesis: "A Search for Optical Variability in Seyfert Galaxies"
University of Rochester (N.Y.), September 1962-June 1966
B.S.
with distinction in Astrophysics,
June 1966
Recent
Professional Service:
Technical Editor, StarDate radio program, June 1991-
Technical Editor, StarDate
magazine, January 1991-
NSF/DOE Joint Review of Rubin Telescope Operations Plan, February 2023
NSF Review Panel for AURA Cooperative Agreement, February 2022
NSF/DOE ad hoc Review of Rubin Telescope operations, July 2021
NSF Review Panel for NOIRLab Annual Review, March 2021
NSF Proposal Review, June 2020
NSF Proposal Review, May 2020
NSF/DOE Review Panel for Rubin Observatory Joint Operations Review, April 2020
Gemini Review Panel for SCORPIO PDR, June 2019
Gemini Observatory Science and Technology Advisory Committee, October 2015 - May 2019
Gemini Review PDR Panel for OCTOCAM PDR, April 2018
NSF/DOE Review Panel for LSST, September 2017
Gemini Review Panel for OCTOCAM CoDR, August 2017
NSF Program Review Panel for NRAO, December 2014
NASA Review Panel for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Science Mission Operations readiness review, April 2013
Scientific Organizing Committee, Stellar Pulsation
Conference, Grenada, Spain, September 2012
NSF Gemini Management Review Panel, March 2011
Professional
Societies:
International Astronomical Union: Member of Commissions on Pulsating Stars, on Binary and Multiple Star Systems, on Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry
American Astronomical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
American Association of Variable Star Observers