by Pamela | Jan 10, 2008 | Personal
Megan Gray of the University of Nottingham (UK) is blowing away my mind with an elegant and articulate press conference on the link between galaxies and their environment. She is using beautiful analogies and I just want to say that if you want a speaker on galaxy...
by Pamela | Jan 9, 2008 | Politics
Yesterday’s Michael Griffin talk left me feeling just plain disgruntled. This morning, walking over from Starbucks, the gang of us ran into a NASA related person (whose name I didn’t ask permission to use, so I won’t), and had a really good talk...
by Pamela | Jan 9, 2008 | Personal
At 9am the the IKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) was released to the world. This survey was started in 2005 when the world’s largest and most sensitive IR instrument was commissioned on IKIRT. It is able to survey the sky faster and deeper than anything...
by Pamela | Jan 9, 2008 | Meetups
It Rocked. I’m sleepy. Here’s a photo. Thank you so much for coming. You guys were wonderful for to meet.
by Pamela | Jan 8, 2008 | Teaching
At least once a month (often more often), I get an email from someone saying they really wished they’d taken astronomy in high school. I more rarely get emails from students who “wish [their] school taught astronomy.” In today’s world of...
