Gerald Cecil & Burch Field Seminar Students atop C. Pachon, Chile outside SOAR Telescope

• Scientific interests (Galaxies, Peak Oil)
  and
• Some Recent Publications (more at astro-ph)
• Peak Oil lecture notes (5.2 MB PDF) and our PHYS 131 Energy and Environmental Crises lectures in FLASH format

I'm preparing instrumentation and developing science programs to use the SOAR telescope remotely

that, as Project Scientist in Tucson, I spent 4.5 years helping to design. For 2011-2012 I'm using grant funds to deploy a multiobject module in the Goodman Spectrograph and later in the SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM).

I can be reached at

Meanwhile, in the current Resource War ...

Cost of US oil imports to date (current dollars) ...

US casualties
Coalition casualties

Don't worry, it's all for our defense (I guess the others aren't too worried about us yet. They should be.)

US Trade Deficit Counter

Enjoy this economic Ponzi scheme while it lasts. What follows soon will be grim indeed.

RIP Chalmers Johnson, you were a clear voice in troubled times.