Education / Outreach

• Occasional guest blogger on the Planetary Society Blog:
  • 2005/12/28: Looking forward to New Horizons' launch
  • 2006/01/02: Looking forward to New Horizons' launch
  • 2006/01/09: Looking forward to New Horizons' launch
  • 2006/01/12: Looking forward to New Horizons' launch
  • 2006/01/13: Looking forward to New Horizons' launch
  • 2006/01/15: Looking forward to New Horizons' launch
  • 2006/01/16: Less than 24 hours till the New Horizons launch
  • 2006/01/17: Philosophical after the first day's launch attempt
  • 2006/01/19: After the launch
  • 2006/09/11: Pebbles and Pluto
  • 2006/09/13: New Horizons at Jupiter: Dreams and reality
  • 2006/09/15: Lunch, Jupiter, and Saturn
  • 2007/02/05: Choosing Cassini's extended mission tour
  • 2007/02/07: The Hubble scramble
  • 2007/02/11: Past, present, and future
  • 2007/02/23: Here we go! New Horizons approaches Jupiter

• Some public talks:
  • Enceladus: An Active Ice World in the Saturn System, JPL Earth and Space Science Colloquium lecture series, February 2008. PDF version (30 Megs)
  • Taking the Measure of the Solar System, University of Michigan Scales of the Universe lecture series, September 2007
  • New Horizons at Jupiter, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, February 2007
  • Denver Museum of Nature and Science (Colorado Astronomy Day), October 2002
  • American Alpine Club Centennial Meeting, Golden, CO, September 2002
  • De Miguel Elementary School Astronomy Club, Flagstaff, April 2002
  • Lowell Observatory (Pluto Day) February 2002
  • Lisbon Observatory, Portugal, August 2001
  • Saguaro Astronomy Club, Phoenix, June 2001
  • Science Station, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 2001
  • Adler Planetarium, Chicago, May 2001
  • Challenger Center, Phoenix, April 2001
  • Coconino Astronomers, Flagstaff, March 2001
  • Monte Vista Elementary School, Phoenix, February 2001
  • Flagstaff Winterfest (at Lowell Observatory), February 2001
  • Inupiat Cultural Center, Barrow, Alaska, November 2000
  • Ipalook Elementary School, Barrow, Alaska, November 2000
  • Jason Project Teacher's Workshop, Las Vegas, September 2000
  • British Astronomical Association, London, June 1998

• Former Co-Editor, Star Tales, Lowell Observatory.

• Lecturer, 2a Escola da Verao Interdisciplinar sobre o Sistema Solar (EVISS) (2nd Interdisciplinary Solar System Summer School), Lisbon Astronomical Observatory, Portugal, August 2001. Photos

• Participating scientist, The Jason Project:
  • Jason Project VI: Island Earth (Feb/March 1995)
    
  • Jason Project XII: A Living Laboratory (Jan/Feb 2001)
    Online activity developed for Jason XII, with video clips and interactive exercises (requires Shockwave).

• Recent National/International TV work (mostly with Pioneer Productions, for U.K. Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel):
  • Universe: Saturn (History Channel), 2007
  • Naked Science: Deadliest Planets (National Geographic), 2006
  • Extrasolar Planets, 2001
  • Life on Mars, 2000
  • Universe 2000, 1999
  • On Jupiter, 1995

• Magazine Articles
  • Galileo's Closest Look at Io. Sky and Telescope, May 2001
  • Io and I. The Planetary Report, August 1997
  • Jupiter's Odd Bunch. New Scientist 154, #2076, 1997
  • Observing a Cataclysm: The Last Days of Comet Shoemaker/Levy 9. The Planetary Report 14, #3, 1994

• Regular presentations on Computers in Astronomy, and other talks, for the NAU Elderhostel Program

• June 1999 TOPS Workshop in Hawaii: live observations of Io volcanos for a student/teacher workshop.
  

• Books:
  • The Great Comet Crash, with Jacqueline Mitton, available from Cambridge University Press. See the The Fall 1995 Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin for a review by Paul Schenk.
    Sample illustrations:
    3-color (1.58, 1.7, 2.3 micron) image of impact sites E and D, from CTIO (composite by Nick Schneider), and...

    The G impact, had it hit Earth, and...

    The Jovian magnetosphere

  • Io and I. Chapter in Our Worlds (Alan Stern, Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1999.