Friends' Pages

Those I made in my high-school days in St. Paul, MN

Mary Klassen - My sister and burgeoning computer geek! Soon all the WWW design firms will be clamoring to hire her.

Todd Carpenter - Honeywell engineer

Eric Larson - another friend since my high school days, now a middle school science teacher

Shaun Kelly - computer programmer, storm chaser, electronics guru, etc.

Those I met out at UW

Bob Howell - my dissertation advisor and former boss

Earl Spillar - provided me technical assistance with imaging and IR cameras while Bob was on sabatical

Nor Pirzkal - "stellar" astronomer working for ESO in wonderful Garching bei München (we visited him there!)

Larry DeWarf - Villanova astronomy faculty member and binary star expert

Mary Ann Hickman Klassen - Swarthmore physics/astronomy faculty member and education expert

Tim Titus - Former fellow UW grad student and now fellow Mars researcher

Those I made in Cornell

Jim Bell - my post-doc advisor; a.k.a. Mr. Mars

Phil Nicholson - current editor of Icarus; great for lunchtime conversations on just about any topic!

Bill Bottke - Mr. Asteroid and fellow Minnesotan (we actually met when we were both undergrads at the University of Minnesota

Joe Harrington - a type of Rennaisance man...

Don Banfield - another lunchtime friend and great conversationalist

Those I've met here at Rowan

Karen Magee-Sauer - astronmy prof, comet researcher, and great physics education mentor

Eddie Guerra - fellow new astronomy faculty

Trish Yurak - psychology prof; it's all about her, don't you know...

Sharyn Clough - philosophy and religion prof specializing in philosphy of science among many other things.