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Educational Interests:

1. Enriching the academic lives of Sonoma State University students through courses and research
2. Mentoring the next generation of scientists, engineers and educators
3. Recruiting and training a diverse population of students
4. Enhancing the scientific literacy of society
5. Innovative teaching practices

Research Interests:

1. Development of next-generation astronomical adaptive optics systems
2. Development of Sonoma State University observational capabilities
3. Astronomical instrumentation (with particular emphasis on the near-infrared and adaptive optics)
4. High spatial-resolution astronomy including the central regions of galaxies and planetary science
5. Time domain astronomy, measurements of transient phenomena in the universe

Projects and Links:

• KAPAO, a low-cost, remote-access, natural guide star adaptive optics system
• Robert Noyce Scholarship Program
• What Physicists Do Lecture Series
• Public Viewing Nights
• EnACT~PTD (Ensure Access through Collaborative Technology - Partnerships, Technology and Dissemination)
• Galbreath Wildlands Preserve Observatory
• ViLLaGEs: MEMS Adaptive Optics and Visible Light Laser Guidestar Experiments
• CfAO Summer School
• Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
• ExAO Testbed for the Gemini Planet Imager
• CfAO Professional Development Program
• Stellar Occultations page
• CfAO Treasury Survey
• Lick Adaptive Optics System
• COSMOS Summer School: Stars, Sight and Science
• IRCAL: The Infrared Camera for Adaptive Optics at Lick Observatory
• UCO/Lick Observatory
• University of Chicago