I work with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Science Operations group. We are located in the Bloomberg physics building on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore MD. I am primarily concerned with spacecraft pointing stability and guide star control. I came to the FUSE project after 10 years working in Science Operations for the Hubble Space Telescope.

My current research focus is on low mass stars, brown dwarfs, extrasolar planets, and stellar disks. I am active in various outreach and education projects, and I am the instructor for "Understanding and Teaching Stars, Galaxies and Beyond," a graduate class for K-12 teachers taught at The Johns Hopkins University.

Brief biography (html)

• FUSE Home Page
• FUSE Science Operations¹
• Leonids 2000, 2001; other Leonids links.
• Guide Star Coordinates for Attitude Recovery
• FUSE Public Outreach and Education

¹ - indicates a restricted link; sorry

Research:

• Partners: Al Schultz (PI), Ian Jordan, Mark Kochte, Forrest Hamilton, Fred Bruhweiler.
• UMBRAS, a free-flying coronagraphic space mission.
  Check out Ed's other spaceship designs at Above The Blue Horizon!
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, the clearing house for recent information.
• February 1998 Astronomy article on our (so far unconfirmed) detection of a possible low-mass companion around Proxima Centauri using the Faint Object Spectrograph on HST.
• Our image of the beta Pictoris disk taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on HST.

Education and outreach:

• 886.633 Understanding and Teaching Stars, Galaxies and Beyond information for current semester.
• Young Space Explorers Astronomy presentations and activities for 1st-3rd graders, presented in the Howard County libraries. Funded by an IDEAS grant, work by Cathy Imhoff and the YSE Team. Check out my Sunspot Flip Book!
• Public Talks
  • Exosolar Planets
  • A Stroll on Mars (versions for grades 1-3 or high school/adult)
  • Oh, No! The Sun Has Spots! (grades 1-3)
  • Astronomy (for Gifted and Talented Career Day)
  • The Nearby Stars, our Sun's Neighbors
    • Kelu-1, the first free-floating brown dwarf discovered.
  • Aiming the Hubble Space Telescope
  • What's New from Hubble Space Telescope
  • Pathfinder: the Return to Mars
  • 1997XF11: the Little Asteroid that (probably) Won't
• Instructor for Understanding and Teaching Stars, Galaxies and Beyond, 881.633, a graduate class for K-12 teachers, under the auspices of the Maryland Space Grant Consortium and the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education at The John's Hopkins University.

Misc.

• HST Program information
• Quick access to my images list

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Last updated: 26 October 2004