Can be found rock climbing, hiking with my two pit bulls, obsessing over space exploration, sailing, writing and planning adventures of all kinds.

UC Berkeley Physics, SSL
Joined March 2011
Appropriate comic - Im writing about solar coronal physics as part of my PhD dissertation this week and trying to explain why it isn't magic xitter.cf/NatSolarObs/status/876…
MAG(netohydrodynam)ICs ...MAGIC! = basis of all solar physics! From @xkcdComic xkcd.com/1851/
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Nicole Duncan retweeted
Our asteroid-hunting @WISE_Mission released its 3rd year of survey data, discovering 28 were near-Earth objects: go.nasa.gov/2sOppQL
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Great overview article on Asteroid-Sampling Mission OSIRIS-REx, launched yesterday shar.es/1wFYuN via @SPACEdotcom – at Oakland, CA
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Nicole Duncan retweeted
Nanodust Cloud Shrouding the Moon Is Spawned by Meteoroid Impacts dlvr.it/MDG5Y4
.@NASA Confirms Astronauts Can't Hunt #Pokémon Aboard the @Space_Station. Via @Nerdist @Sci_Phile owl.li/mf5G302b4YB
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Nicole Duncan retweeted
When it's 3:30am remember: don't mistake being tired for being unhappy. #tipsfornewdocs
Download the LIGO gravitational wave signal as a ringtone #SPIEastro ligo.org/multimedia.php#ring…
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Download the LIGO gravitational wave signal as a ringtone #SPIEastro ligo.org/multimedia.php#ring…
"Dark Matter is like our Mom" Great talk by Hitoshi Murayama at #SPIEastro pfs.ipmu.jp/index.html – at Edinburgh, Scotland
"404 The cosmic object you are looking for has disappeared beyond the event horizon. " Thanks .@NASA , best 404 error ever
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After 12 day flight in Jan, @GRIPSballoon payload sits out winter on the ice; to be recovered this austral summer xitter.cf/hazbain/status/7388223…
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Smallest Flare observed in Hard X-rays, seen by .@NASANuSTAR presented by Lindsay Glesener at #2016SPD – at Boulder, CO
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Relativistic electron precipitation event from .@GRIPSballoon Antarctic flight – at Boulder, CO
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.@GRIPSballoon succesful first flight talk from PI Pascal SaintHilaire at #2016SPD on Boulder #milehigher – at Boulder, CO
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Great picture of NASA's #SuperPressureBalloon took by Ray Pickard, Bathurst Observatory, NSW spaceweathergallery.com/indi…
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#Colorado #NSRC2016 – at Mount Laurel, NJ
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A beautiful backdrop to the #2016SPD conference dinner. Thank you to the @NatSolarObs local organizing team
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