Links and Related Home pages

 

• Craig Kenton Smith, my former graduate student, has been working in microwave remote sensing physics and algorithm development since 1997, and it currently with The Aerospace Corporation.
• Jonathan Levine my former graduate student, is an assistant professor at Colgate.
• Dan Karner earned his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics, and worked with me on Quaternary glacial cycles, glacial ice measurements, and everything else.
• Piet Hut is tenured, but the Institute for Advanced Study tried to fire him. Read my statement.
• Walter Alvarez and I frequently hold a joint group meetings and talk about AstroGeophysics.
• Society for Amateur Scientists, created by my former student and postdoc, Shawn Carlson.
• UC Berkeley Department of Geology and Geophysics
• Hands on Universe. High School students can control professional astronomical telescopes.
• Distant supernova search. My former graduate student and post-doc Saul Perlmutter discovered that the Universe will expand forever!
• Amigos de las Americas is a volunteer program that my daughter Melinda participated in. In 1998, she went to Paraguay for six weeks to dig latrines, teach improved sanitation methods, learn first-hand what a foreign (and third world) land is like, and perfect her Spanish. In 1999, she went to the Dominican Republic, for similarly heroic feats.

​My friend Tony Long recently wrote a fascinating paper called "Evolution vs Intelligent Design in Classical Antiquity". With his permission, I have posted it on this web site.
My former student Shawn Carlson published in Nature magazine the definitive scientific test of Astrology. Although his paper is widely cited, it is not as well-known as it deserves. (I am proud to have been his scientific advisor in this work.) He subsequently founded the Society of Amateur Scientists and was appropriately given a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award. If you have questions about his test of astrology, please email Carlson, not me.