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2011 AAS
AAS: Day 1
Greetings from the 2011 AAS Meeting being held in Seattle, WA.
Today Rebecca and I presented two posters on behalf of the Citizen Sky project. Rebecca's poster was focused on the project as a whole, whereas my poster discussed the work the DSLR Documentation and Reduction Team has created for the CS website.
I have posted a copy of the DSLR poster to my portfolio page:
https://portfolio.du.edu/pc/port.detail?id=176986 There were several people who were interested in using DSLR as photometers and thanks to conversation I think the team has some more work to do which will make a very cool, publishable paper.Read more
218 AAS Meeting
The 218 AAS meeting in Boston, MA was great. I met up with people I know and several people whom I had the pleasure of meeting for the first time.
There were many talks about the recent results from Kepler ranging from new instrumentation/reduction pipeline issues to new scientific discoveries (planets and astroseismology mostly). One particularly interesting talk, at least from my perspectives, presented some demographic information on jobs in astronomy/astrophysics. The speaker (James S. Ulvestad of the NSF, who made it very clear that he was NOT speaking on behalf of the NSF, but instead as an individual), presented some staggering statistics. Once the talk is online I highly suggest you watch it if you are planning a career in astronomy/astrophysics research.
