Programming/Data Reduction Languages:

Fortran and IDL. Some knowledge of C (one formal course, plus ongoing practice). VMS and Unix operating system, DCL
and IRAF scripts. Experienced user of IRAF and IDL reduction packages for spectroscopy and imaging. Purchased Alpha 200
workstation, run under Dec/Unix.

Foreign Languages: Conversational French, written German.

Administration:  See National Science Foundation Program Director, Pre-CSC Employment
 

PhD in Astronomy, University of Arizona 1971
    Director: Dr. Helmut Abt; Topic: Metallicism in Am Stars.
BS (cum laude) in Astronomy 1966, Case Western Reserve University.
Walt Whitman High School, 1962; South Huntington, NY.

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Research Administrator for Astronomy (8/92-12/94):
IUE Satellite Final Data Archiving Project (1992-present):
IUE Image Processing Astronomer (9/88- 7/90):
National Science Foundation Program Director, Astronomy Division, Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics (1990-2)
National Solar Observatory (9/80-8/88): Associate Astronomer of NOAO
University of Texas at Austin (9/73-8/80): Assistant Professor
University of Toledo (9/72-6/73): Assistant Professor.
University of Calif., Santa Cruz (1/71-8/72)

• XTE (X-ray)
• ASCA (X-ray)
• ROSAT (X-ray)
• ORFEUS (Space Shuttle)
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Extreme UltraViolet Explorer

1998-9: Elected Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee for IAU Colloq. No. 175 on Be Stars in Alicante, Spain, June 1999.
1998: Asked to write popular article for ASP's Mercury magazine on UV/X-ray research on the Be star gamma Cassiopeia (see June, 1998 issue).
1997: Press release requested by AAS for AAS Poster in January 1997 meeting.
1996: Elected member of American Astronomical Society Committee on Employment (national).
1994: Elected Chair of International Astronomical Union Working Group on Active Be Stars (> 350 members).
1993: Publicly cited for most interesting invited paper in IAU Symposium No. 162, (International Astronomical Union conference on Rotation, Pulsation in B stars)
1992: Outstanding Service Citation as Program Director, by NSF Director Walter Massey.
1991: Invited contributor of 2 articles for Astronomy & Ap. Reference Encyclopedia (Van Nostrand, 1992).
1991: First Place in CSC/SSD Division Honorarium competition for research paper.
1990: Honorable Mention in CSC/SSD Division Honorarium Competition.

1996: Found X-ray/UV/optical link of initial outburst event in a Be star.
1996: Resolved radiative transfer problem concerning equal emissions of singlet & triplet lines of HeI lines in Be star spectra.
1993: Demonstration that magnetic flaring processes constitute the most probable mechanism behind the outbursts of classical Be stars.
Late 1970's: Discovery of a new class of variables (nonradial pulsating B stars).
Mid 1970's: Application of Fourier techniques for optimized signal recovery of spectral line profiles. See appendix on reviews.

International Astronomical Union
American Astronomical Society (And Solar Phys, High Energy Divisions)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
American Institute of Physics
Chair: IAU Working Group on Active B Stars
Member, Organizing Committee of IAU Variable Stars Commission #27, 1988-1997.

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