Astronomy
As a scientist I was trained as an astronomer and
being an astronomer informs my thinking process, and ultimately influences
how I view the cosmos.
As I have a huge passion for teaching, I feel compelled to provide some resources for you...
- Remote Sensing
For about a dozen years, I detoured my career into conservation, working as an invasive species scientist for The Nature Conservancy. But imagine my surprise and pleasure when I found myself researching multiband and hyperspectral imaging platforms. Instead of using these telescopes for astronomical photometry or spectroscopy, the detectors are pointed at the ground! Ultimately, I wrote a highly regarded summary on remote sensing for biological monitoring. Sometimes, to get a job done, you need an astronomer!
I have reproduced the remote sensing here for you, although it was originally on the TNC site.
- A few links:
- Sierra College Astronomy Department
- Steward Observatory
- Flandrau Science Center Skywatcher's Guide
- UCDavis Astronomy Club
- Earth & Sky
- US Naval Observatory for rise/set times
- Sunrise-sunset calendar maker
- Plait's Bad Astronomy Blog
- My research contributions
A short summary of some of my graduate and post-graduate work done at the University of Arizona.
My interests in astronomy were more towards instruction than they were towards research, so my list of astronomical publications never got very large while I was in graduate school. Alas, post-graduation, the demands of my career in biodiversity conservation overwhelmed my efforts to publish chapters of my dissertation---so they forever remained in the world of distributed, but unpublished grey literature.
- Meyers-Rice, B.A., 1998, Anemic stars--a new pre-main-sequence stellar population; unpublished.
- Meyers-Rice, B.A., 1998, Infrared multiband polarimetry in the young galactic cluster NGC 2264; unpublished.
- Meyers-Rice, B.A., 1995, The Dusty Environment of the young galactic cluster NGC 2264, Ph.D. Dissertation, Tucson Arizona.
- Meyers-Rice, B.A. & Young, E.T., 1994, A Calibrated System for Low Resolution Spectral Classification, in The MK Process at 50 Years, ASP Conference Series, 60, ed. C. J. Corbally, R.O. Gray, & R. F. Garrison, 270.
- Meyers-Rice, B.A. & Lada, C.J., 1991, The Structure and Kinematics of Bipolar Outflows: Observations and Models of the Monoceros R2 Outflow, The Astrophysical Journal, 368, 445.