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Amara's Résumé

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AMARA LYNN GRAPS
amara@amara.com
http://www.amara.com/

SUMMARY

• Astronomical/Atmospheric data reduction and interpretation. 25 years experience.
  
• Programming. 16 years experience.
  
• Technical writing. 12 years experience.
  

INTERESTS

• Being involved in astrophysics research efforts and learning new physics, chemistry, mathematics, other science along the way.
  
• Writing simulation and modeling software incorporating physical concepts.
  

TECHNICAL AREAS
Technical strengths include: Dust physics, Computational physics, numerical analysis, infrared and ultraviolet data acquisition and analysis, popular science writing, technical writing, statistics, database design, computer graphics, TeX and LaTeX typesetting, Macintosh systems administration, Unix workstation administration.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES and OPERATING SYSTEMS
IDL, Matlab, Perl, HTML, IRAF, Pascal, Fortran, Basic;
DEC: VMS; APPLE: Macintosh; IBM: DOS; Unix: Silicon Graphics, Sun.

EDUCATION
Universität Heidelberg (Germany), PhD Physics, July 2001. [Diploma, Thesis Archive, Chapters.]
San Jose State University, M.S. Physics (Computational Physics), August 1991. [Diploma, Univ Link, PDF.]
UC Irvine, B.S. Physics, June 1984.[Diploma.]

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

November 2007 to Present:
Scientific Researcher: Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. Mission work for the Ralph camera on board the New Horizons Pluto mission and continuing my circum/interplanetary dust charging and dynamics and the origin of water on the terrestrial planets.

May 2006 to Present:
Affiliate and formerly Associate Researcher: Planetary Science Institute (PSI), Tucson, Arizona. Examining circum/interplanetary dust charging and dynamics and the origin of water on Earth.

January 2003 to October 2007:
Scientific Researcher: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Rome. Mission work for existing and in-the-process-of-being- built infrared spectrometers on space missions: Dawn, Cassini, and Rosetta. Europlanet Small Bodies and Dust Working Group Coordinator.

2004-2005:
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Astronomy: American University of Rome, (AUR), Rome, Italy. Astronomy instructor for the liberal arts university students.

April 1998 to December 2002:
Graduate student/Post-doc: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik and University of Heidelberg. Examined circum/interplanetary dust charging and dynamics, including Io as a the origin of the Jovian dust streams, using in-situ dust data from the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft dust instruments. (see: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps/)

1995 to March 1999:
Space Sciences Editor: Science and Engineering Network News Newsletter. Wrote column on Internet space science resources.

1995 to March 1998:
Scientific Programmer: Solar Oscillations Investigations Project, Stanford University. Writing image processing, seismic oscillations software, and solar education WWW materials. (see: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/)

1995 to 1996:
Scientific Programming Consultant: Research Systems, Boulder, CO. Wrote wavelet software for the IDL programming language.
(see: http://www.amara.com/wwbdev/wwbdev.html)

1995:
Scientific Applications Consultant: Advent Systems, Mountain View, CA. Wavelet programming and radar data reduction.

HTML Programming Consultant: MacSciTech Users Association. World Wide Web site work.

1994 to 1995:
Scientific Applications Consultant: Intergalactic Reality, Cupertino, CA. Examples, algorithms, contacts, and user manuals for a Macintosh data anlysis package.

1994:
Technical Writer: Greenleaf Medical, Palo Alto, CA. Wrote a user manual for a Macintosh medical data acquisition system and created experimental WWW sites.

Research Scientist: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, San Francisco, and NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. Wavelet algorithms and applications.

Numerical Analysis Consultant: Alliance Laboratories, Redwood City. Updated and rewrote thermocouple numerical analysis programs.

1986 to 1994:
Software Specialist II: Sterling Software, NASA-Ames Research Center. Infrared data analysis and interpretation for astronomical and atmospheric data from KAO, SpaceLab 2, ER-2, ground-based telescopes, laboratory prototype instruments, and simulated tropospheric data, database development for three ER-2 atmospheric missions, dynamics of chaotic orbital evolution of solar system objects, UV ring occultation data analysis from Voyager 2, detecting circumstellar dust around main sequence stars, beta-testing of Macintosh scientific commercial software, writing/editing technical manuals and conference proceedings, systems operations for eight Macintoshes, Unix systems administration for two Silicon Graphics workstations.

1993:
Consultant: NASA-Ames Research Center. Create and edit bimonthly Digital Explorations newsletter for Atmospheric and Space Sciences divisions.

Consultant: Apple Computer, Cupertino. Wrote User and Programmer manuals for the Scientist's Workbench application.

Consultant: Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania. Created list of infrared-excess star candidates for Infrared Space Observatory observations.

1984 to 1986:
Professional Research Assistant: LASP, University of CO, Boulder, CO. Ultraviolet data analysis for planetary ring data from the Voyager 2; and ultraviolet data analysis for Venus atmospheric and Comet Halley data from the Pioneer Venus.

1982 to 1984:
Technical Assistant: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Ultraviolet data analysis for planetary ring data from the Voyager 2 Photopolarimeter Project.

1981 to 1986:
Research Assistant: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Technical assistance for systematic photographic search for asteroids with Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescopes.

FIRST AUTHOR PUBLICATIONS

• Graps, A.L, Jones, G.H., Juhasz, A., Horanyi, M., Havnes, O. (2008), "The Charging of Planetary Rings", in _Planetary Atmospheric Electricity_, ed.: Aplin K., Harrison R.G., Leblanc F.,Treumann R., Yair Y., Space Sciences Series of ISSI, Springer, accepted May 28, in press (Fall 2008).
• Krüger, H. and Graps, A. coeditors, "Dust in Planetary Systems" (Workshop, September 26-30 2005, Kauai, Hawaii), ESA Publications, SP-643, January 2007.
  Individual Chapters and Whole Book (PDF, 35 Mb), BibTeX file of the Book, Chapters at NASA ADS, Cover, Front Matter, Index, List of Participants.
• A. L. Graps, Green, S.F., McBride, N.M., McDonnell, J.A.M., Bunte, K., Svedhem, H., and Drolshagen, G., "GEO Debris and Interplanetary Dust: Fluxes and Charging Behavior", in "Dust in Planetary Systems", Krüger, H. and Graps, A. eds., ESA Publications, SP-643 (February 2007). arXiv archive, and in high resolution version.
• Graps, A.L., "Characterization of Jovian Plasma-Embedded Dust Particles," (2006), Planetary and Space Sciences, Volume 54, Issues 9-10, Physics of Dusty Rings, Pages 911-918. arXiv archive, and PSS.
• Graps, Amara L.; Cerroni, Priscilla; Guest Editors (2005), "The Saturn Universe: A Cassini Workshop October 5-8, 2004", Earth, Moon, and Planets 96 Nos. 3-4, June 2005.
• Graps, Amara L., Vulcani di Luci / Volcanoes of Light, English Text, Rebus Editions, 2004, 2006. Errata.
• Graps, A.L. and Juhász, A. (2001), "Dusty Phenomena in the Solar System," Sky and Telescope, January 2001.
• Graps, A.L. and Grün, E., (2000) "Dust in the Earth's Magnetosphere: Properties, Charging, and Dynamics," in Summary Report for ESA Contract 13145/98/NL/WK : Update of Statistical Meteoroid/Debris Models for GEO, 2000. HTML, and PDF.
• Graps, A.L. and Grün, E., (2000) "Charging processes for dust particles in Saturn's magnetospheres," Dust in the Solar System and other Planetary Systems, Proceedings of the IAU colloquium 181 and COSPAR colloquium 11, Univ. of Kent, April 2000. arXiv archive.
• Graps, A. L, Grün, E., Svedhem, H. Krüger, H., Horányi, M., Heck, A., Lammers, S., "Io as a Source of the Jovian Dust Streams," Nature, 405, 48-50, 4 May 2000. [Abstract, Press, Paper, and PDF].
• Graps, Amara; "Parallel Computing Allows Fluid Approach to Astrophysics," Scientific Computing World, October/November 1999, pp 24-25.
• Graps, Amara; "N-body Simulations Push Hardware and Software Limits," Scientific Computing World, April 1999, pp 30-32.
• Graps, Amara; "Probability Offers Link Between Theory and Reality," Scientific Computing World, October 1998, pp 25-27.
• Graps, Amara; "Wavelets are Stars in Astronomy Problems," Scientific Computing World, April 1998, pp 22-25.
• Graps, Amara; "Interpreting the Sun's Vibrations," Scientific Computing World, October 1997, pp 18-20.
• Graps, Amara; "Jamming with the Cosmos: A Conversation with Dr. Fiorella Terenzi," Extropy #17, Fall 1996, pp 15-24. Extropy Magazine Cover and Jamming with the Cosmos- Online version.
• Graps, A.L.; "Introduction to Wavelets", IEEE Computational Sciences and Engineering, Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 1995, pp 50-61. [HTML, PS-gzipped, and PDF].
• Graps, A.L., M.R. Showalter, J.J. Lissauer, D.M. Kary; "Optical Depth Profiles and Streamlines of the Uranian Epsilon Ring," Astronomical Journal, 109, 2262-2273 (May 1995). ADS Abstracts.
• Graps, Amara Lynn; "Investigating the Motions and Energies of Ions Confined in a Magnetic Field," San Jose State University M.S. Physics thesis (1991). More details about my thesis.
• Graps, A.L., A.L. Lane; "Voyager 2 Photopolarimeter Experiment: Evidence for Tenuous Outer Ring Material at Saturn," Icarus 67, 205-210 (1986). ADS Abstracts.
• Graps, A.L., A.L. Lane, L.J. Horn, K.E. Simmons; "Evidence for Material between Saturn's A and F Ring from the Voyager 2 Photopolarimeter," Icarus 60, 409-415 (1984). ADS Abstracts.

CO-AUTHOR PUBLICATIONS

• Krüger, Harald; Graps, Amara L.; Flandes, Alberto; Forsythe, Robert J.; Hamilton, Douglas P.; Horányi, Mihaly; Grün, Eberhard, "Ulysses jovian latitude scan of electromagnetically interacting dust streams", (2006), Planetary and Space Sciences, Volume 54, Issues 9-10, Pages 919-931, PSS.
• Krüger, Harald; D. Bindschadler; S.F. Dermott; A. L. Graps; E. Grün; B.A. Gustafson; D.P. Hamilton; M.S. Hanner, M. Horányi; J. Kissel; B.A. Lindblad; D. Linkert; G. Linkert; I. Mann; J.A.M. McDonnell; R. Moissl; G.E. Morfill; C. Polanskey; G. Schwehm; R. Srama; H.A. Zook, "Five years of Ulysses dust data: 2000-2004" (2006), Planetary and Space Sciences, Volume 54, Issues 9-10, Pages 932-956, PSS.
• Krüger, Harald; N. Altobelli; B. Anweiler; S.F. Dermott; V. Dikarev; A. L. Graps; E. Grün; B.A. Gustafson; D.P. Hamilton; M.S. Hanner, M. Horányi; J. Kissel; M. Landgraf; B.A. Lindblad; D. Linkert; G. Linkert; I. Mann; J.A.M. McDonnell; R. Moissl; G.E. Morfill; C. Polanskey; G. Schwehm; R. Srama; H.A. Zook, "Galileo dust data from the jovian system: 1997-1999", (2006), Planetary and Space Sciences, Volume 54, Issues 9-10, Pages 879-910, PSS.
• Krüger, Harald; Graps, Amara L.; Forsythe, Robert J.; Eberhard, (2005), "Electromagnetically Interacting Dust Streams During Ulysses' Second Jupiter Encounter", New Vistas in Dusty Plasma: Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 799, pp. 157-160.
• Grün, Dikerev, V., Krüger, H.; Kempf, S., Moragas-Klostermeyer, G., Srama, R., Frisch, P. C., Graps, A. L., Landgraf, M. (2004), "Dust in interplanetary space and in the local galactic environment", in Astrophysics of Dust, editors: Witt, Adolf N., Clayton, Geoffrey C., Draine, Bruce T., ASP Conference Series 309.
• S.F. Green and A.L. Graps (2004), "Gorid Data Analysis", in Summary Report for ESA Contract 6272/02/NL/EC : Processing, Analysis and Interpretation of Data from Impact Detectors.
• Harald Krüger, Mihaly Horányi, Alexander V. Krivov, and Amara L. Graps (2004), "Jovian Dust: Streams, Clouds and Rings, " to appear in: Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites & Magnetosphere, eds. F. Bagenal, W. McKinnon, T. Dowling, Cambridge University Press.
• Harald Krüger, Paul Geissler, Mihaly Horányi, Amara L. Graps, Sascha Kempf, Ralf Srama, Georg Moragas-Klostermeyer, Richard Moissl, Torrence V. Johnson, Eberhard Grün, "Jovian Dust Streams: A monitor of Io's volcanic plume activity," Geophysical Research Letters. 30(21):2101, 2003 Nov 7.
• R. Srama, J. G Bradley, E. Grün, T. J. Ahrens, S. Auer, M. Cruise, H. Fechtig, A. Graps, O. Havnes, A. Heck, S. Helfert, E. Igenbergs, E. K. Jessberger, T. V. Johnson, S. Kempf, H. Krüger, P. Lamy, M. Landgraf, D. Linkert, F. Lura, J. A. M. McDonnell, D. Mohlmann, G. E. Morfill, G. H. Schwehm, M. Stübig, J. Svestka, A. J. Tuzzolino, R. Wasch, and H. A. Zook, "The Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyser," Space Science Reviews.
• H. Krüger, E. Grün, A. Graps, S. Lammers, "Observations of electromagnetically coupled dust in the Jovian magnetosphere," Proceedings of the VII. International Plasma Astrophysics and Space Physics Conference, held in Lindau, May 1998, Astrophysics and Space Science. Abstract.
• E. Grün, H. Krüger, A. L. Graps, D. P. Hamilton, A. Heck, G. Linkert, H. A. Zook, S. Dermott, H. Fechtig, B. A. Gustafson, M. S. Hanner, M. Horányi, J. Kissel, B.A. Lindblad, D. Linkert, I. Mann, J. A. M. McDonnell, G. E. Morfill, C. Polanskey, G. Schwehm, R. Srama (1998), "Galileo Observes Electromagnetically Coupled Dust in the Jovian Magnetosphere," JGR, vol 103, No. E9, Pages 20, 011-20, 022, August 30, 1998. Reprint.
• E. Grün, H. Krüger, S. Dermott, H. Fechtig, A. L. Graps, B. A. Gustafson, D. P. Hamilton, M. S. Hanner, A. Heck, M. Horányi, J. Kissel, B. A. Lindblad, D. Linkert, G. Linkert, I. Mann, J. A. M. McDonnell, G. E. Morfill, C. Polanskey, G. Schwehm, R. Srama, H. A. Zook (1997), "Dust Measurements in the Jovian Magnetosphere; GRL 24, No. 17, 2171-2174. Preprint.
• J.P. Simpson, F.C. Witteborn, A. Graps, G.G. Fazio, D.G. Koch (1993), "Particle Sightings by the Infrared Telescope on SpaceLab 2," J of Spacecraft and Rockets 30, 216-221. ADS Abstracts.
• Sprague, A.L. , F.C. Witteborn, R.W. Kozlowski, D.P. Cruikshank, J.J. Bartholemew, and A.L. Graps (1993), "The Moon: Mid-Infrared (7.5- 11.4 microns) Spectroscopy of Selected Regions," Icarus 100, 73-84. ADS Abstracts.
  
• Roush, T., F. Witteborn, P. Lucey, A. Graps, J. Pollack (1991), "Thermal Infrared Observations of Mars (7.5-12.8 microns) During 1990 Opposition," 22nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Proceedings. ADS Abstracts.
  
• F.C. Witteborn, S.A. Sandford, J.D. Bregman, L.J. Allamandola, M. Cohen, D.H. Wooden, and A.L. Graps (1989), "New Emission Features in the 11-13 micron Region and Their Relationship to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons," ApJ 341, 270-277. ADS Abstracts.
  
• J.M. Ajello, A.I. Stewart, G.E. Thomas, and A. Graps (1987), "Solar Cycle Study of Interplanetary Lyman-Alpha Variations," ApJ 317, 964-986. ADS Abstracts.
• Arthur L. Lane, Charles W. Hord, Robert A. West, Larry W. Esposito, Karen E. Simmons, Robert M. Nelson, Brad D. Wallis, Bonnie J. Buratti, Linda J. Horn, Amara L. Graps (1986); "Photometry from Voyager 2: Initial Results from the Uranian Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings," Science 233, 65-70. ADS Abstracts.
• Arthur L. Lane, Amara L. Graps, and Karen E. Simmons, "The C-Ring of Saturn: A High Resolution View of Some of its Structure," in _Planetary Rings_ ed. by A. Brahic, Cepadues-Edition, Toulouse, 1982. ADS Abstracts.

TALKS / PRESENTED PAPERS

• "Wavelets: A Tool for Science," 2008 June, Southwest Research Institute Colloqium (Boulder, Colorado).
• "A Nonchondritic Earth: What Would the Dynamicists Say?", 2007 August, Goldschmidt 2007 (Cologne, Germany).
• "Charging of Planetary Rings", 2007 July, International Space Science Institute 'Planetary Lightning Workshop' (Bern, Switzerland).
• "Charged Dust Odysseys", 2007 April, Southwest Research Institute Colloquium (Boulder, Colorado).
• "Origin of Water on Mars", 2007 April, European Geophysical Union (Vienna, Austria).
• "Watering the Earth", 2006 November, University of Southern California Physics Colloquium (Los Angeles, California).
• "Watering the Earth", 2006 October, Division of Planetary Sciences (Pasadena, California).
• "Watering the Earth", 2006 September, European Planetary Science Congress #1 (Berlin, Germany).
• "Watering the Earth", 2006 September, VII Convegno di Scienze Planetarie (San Felice Circeo-Rome, Italy).
• "Watering the Earth (J. Lunine)" and "Constraints for the Water (A. Graps)", 2006 April, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Colloqium (Rome, Italy).
• "Constraints for the Earth's Water from Isotopic Abundandances", April, 2006, European Geophysical Union (Vienna, Austria).
• "From Where did Earth Get its Water?," 2005 October, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Colloqium (Rome, Italy).
• "From Where did Earth Get its Water?", 2005 October, INAF Astrophysics School (Volterra, Italy).
• "GEO Dust and Debris Fluxes and Charging Behavior" and "Dust Working Group Strategies: in the EUROPLANET framework", 2005 September, Dust in Planetary Systems (Lihue, Hawaii).
• "GEO Dust and Debris Fluxes and Charging Behavior", 2005 September, DPS (Cambridge, England).
• "The Jovian Dust Streams" and "Jovian Dusty Plasma", 2005 June, International Space Sciences Institute 'Dusty Rings Workshop' (Bern, Switzerland).
• "Wavelets: A Tool for Science," 2005 February, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Colloqium (Rome, Italy).
• Annual Planetary Conference: "GEO Dust and Debris Fluxes and Charging Behavior," 2005 January, VI Convegno di Scienze Planetarie, (Aosta, Italy).
• International Conference: "GEO Debris and Interplanetary Dust: Fluxes, and Charging Behavior," 2004 July, COSPAR, (Paris, France).
• "The Jovian Dust Streams: A Window into Cosmic Dust Charging Processes," 2004 February, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Colloqium (Naples, Italy).
• "Cosmic Dust Charging Processes," 2003 November, Université de Fribourg Suisse Colloqium (Fribourg, Switzerland).
• "How Did Earth Get its Water?" 2003 November, Université de Fribourg Suisse Seminar (Fribourg, Switzerland).
• "Cosmic Dust Charging Processes," 2003 November, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Colloqium (Rome, Italy).
• "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams," 2003 November, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Colloqium (Rome, Italy).
• Annual Workshop: "Wavelets for Seismology." 2003 September, ESC: Seismic Signals Related to Volcanic Unrest, (Pantelleria, Italy).
• Annual Planetary Conference: "Jupiter's Dusty Plasma Manifested". 2003 September, V Convegno di Scienze Planetarie, (Lecce, Italy).
• Annual Workshop: "Reduction of GORID micrometeoroid and debris particles". 2003 July, Galileo/Ulysses/Cassini/StarDust 2003 Dust Workshop, (Noordwijk, Netherlands).
• International Conference: "Jupiter's Dusty Plasma Manifested". 2003 May, Astrophysics of Dust, (Estes Park, Colorado).
• International Conference: "Orbit to Orbit, Dust to Dust: A Synopsis of Galileo Dust Data in Frequency Space", and "Jupiter's Dusty Plasma Manifested". 2003 April, 2003 EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, (Nice, France).
• Annual Workshop: "Jovian Dust Streams: Current Results from Modeling and Frequency Analysis," 2002 August, Galileo/Ulysses/Cassini/StarDust 2002 Dust Workshop, (Potsdam, Germany).
• International Conference: "Fathom the Jovian Dust Streams: Recent Modeling Results," 2002 July/August, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors 2002, (Berlin, Germany).
• International Conference: "Fathom the Jovian Dust Streams: Recent Modeling Results," 2002 June, EuroJove conference, (Lisboa, Portugal).
• Annual Geophysical Conference: "Fathom the Jovian Dust Streams: Recent Modeling Results", 2002 April, (Nice, France).
• Annual Planetary Conference: "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams", 2001 Nov/Dec, Division of Planetary Sciences, (New Orleans, Louisiana).
• Annual ESC Workshop: "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams", 2001 September, Seismic Phenomena Associated With Volcanic Activity, (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain).
• International Conference: "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams", 2001 August, Meteoroids 2001, (Kiruna, Sweden).
• Annual Workshop: "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams," 2001 July, Galileo/Ulysses/Cassini/StarDust 2001 Dust Workshop, (Heidelberg, Germany).
• International Conference: "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams," 2001 June, Jupiter Symposium (Boulder, Colorado).
• "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams," 2001 June, NASA-Ames Spaces Sciences Colloquium: (Mountain View, California).
• "Charging and Dynamics of Dust in Earth's Magnetosphere," 2001 May, ESA Earth Environment Contracts Results (Noordwijk, Netherlands).
• "Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams," 2001 May, Max-Plank-Institut für Kernphysik Colloquium: (Heidelberg, Germany).
• Annual Planetary Conference: "Charging Processes for Dust Particles in Saturn's Magnetosphere", 2000 October, Division of Planetary Sciences, (Pasadena, California).
• Annual Geophysical Conference: "The Jovian Dust Streams: Io Reveals Itself", 2000 April, (Nice, France).
• IAU Symposium 181: Dust in the Solar System, "Charging Processes for Dust Particles in Saturn's Magnetosphere", 2000 April, (Canterbury, England).
• TU-München, Insitute of Astronautics & Aeronautics, "Introduction to Wavelets", 1999 November, (Garching bei München, Germany).
• Annual Planetary Conference: "Frequency Modulation and Evolution of Galileo Dust Detector Data", 1999 October, Division of Planetary Sciences, (Padua, Italy).
• Annual Workshop: "Frequency Evolution of Galileo Dust Detector Data", 1999 August, Galileo/Ulysses/Cassini/StarDust 99 Dust Workshop, (Münster, Germany).
• International Conference: "The Jovian Dust Streams: Io Dances with Jupiter's Magnetosphere", 1999 July, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors 1999, (Ithaca, New York).
• Annual Geophysical Conference: "Time Series / Frequency Analysis of Galileo Dust Detector Data", 1999 April, European Geophysical Society, (Den Haag, The Netherlands).
• Annual Planetary Conference: "The Origin of the Jovian Dust Streams", 1998 October, Division of Planetary Sciences, (Madison, Wisconsin).
• International Conference: "On the Origin of the Jovian Dust Streams", 1998 August, Meteoroids 98, (Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia).
• "Astronomical Wavelets," 1998 June, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg.
• Annual Workshop: "Time-series analysis of Galileo Dust Detector data," 1998 May, Galileo/Ulysses/Cassini Dust Workshop, (Univ of Maryland, MD).
• Seminar: "Wavelet Analysis in Astronomy," 1998 March, (Cornell, Ithaca, NY).
• Poster Talk: "South-North and Radial Traverses Through the Interplanetary Dust Cloud," Exozody Workshop, 1997 October, (NASA-Ames Research Center, CA).
• Conducted one-day Workshop: "Wavelets: Introduction, Algorithms & Examples" for for Alan Kay, Ted Kaehler, and the rest of the Squeak team, July 1997, (Palo Alto, CA). Contact me for details.
• Stanford Helioseismology Seminar, "Introduction to Wavelet Applications," March 1996, (Stanford, CA).
• Scientific and Engineering Applications on the Mac, (San Francisco, CA), January 1995, "Introduction to Wavelets."
• MacWorld Exposition, (San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA), January 1995, January 1994, August 1994, "The Mac in Science."
• The World Latvian Scientific Congress, (Riga, Latvia), July 1991, "A Snapshot of the Vigorous Astronomical Research Currently Pursued at the NASA-Ames Research Center."
• The Division of Planetary Sciences Meetings, (various locations), 1993,1988,1987,1984,1983, on the topic of Saturn's and Uranus' rings.
  

AWARDS / ACHIEVEMENTS

• Co-discoverer of asteroid 1982 XB. (see IAUC 3754).
• Photograph was published in the Best of College Photography 1983.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Hobbies include bicycle touring, volcanos, Cremona violins, photography, writing, watercolor painting, studying philosophy, and learning the Italian and Latvian languages.
• Am very interested in helping people learn about the cultural interdependent nature of people on our planet.

References available upon request.

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