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Albert Grauer Dr. Albert Grauer retired as a Professor in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in December 2006. He continues to work with Steve Larson and the Catalina Sky Survey observing on the 60-inch Mt. Lemmon and doing data analysis for the survey.
Education Alfred Kracher Dr. Alfred Kracher is an Assistant Scientist at the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. He was also the manager of the electron microprobe facility at the Department of Energy Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. For many years he managed the microprobe lab at the University of Iowa. Until recently he was a visiting Assistant Research Professor in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas and a member of the Cosmochemistry Research Group. Chemical analysis of extraterrestrial samples and studies of the formation and thermal histories of iron meteorites are his main areas of research interest.
Education Professional History Publications Alfred Kracher. "Mercury 2001 conference Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois 2001 October 4-5." Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol. 37, 307-309, 2002. Alfred Kracher. "Standard Choice for the Electron Microprobe: Making the Right Compromise. Microscopy Today, September 2001. Fisher I.R., Kramer M.J., Islam Z., Wiener T.A., Kracher A., Ross A.R., Lograsso T.A., Goldman A.I., and Canfield P.C. Growth of large single-grain quasicrystals from high-temperature metallic solutions. Elsevier Science, December 2000. Larry Lebofsky Dr. Lebofsky is involved in research collaborations and educational outreach with the Space Center. His permanent home is the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona.
His research interests focus on the study of planetary surfaces by instruments on spacecraft. He is widely known for the development of techniques for the detection of water on asteroids. He has been involved in a number of space missions, such as the Infrared Space Observatory and the Infrared Astronomical satellite. Dr. Lebofsky is now a team member of the HERA mission for asteroid sample return; this mission is led by Derek Sears of the University of Arkansas.
Dr. Lebofsky's involvement with the HERA mission also includes leadership of the mission's EPO program. He is the Education Officer for the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. He is also on the program committee and is district representative (Pima County) for the Arizona Science Teachers Association, and serves on the advisory boards for the local ASTRO and UA Space Grant programs as well as the national Challenger Center Board. He is the Director of the UA/NASA Regional Educator Resource Center located in LPL. Each summer he coordinates several workshops for K-12 teachers and is involved with the development of many hands-on astronomy-related actvities. At the University of Arkansas he conducts a one-week summer workshop in astronomy called STORI, for teachers of grades 4-8.
He and Nancy Lebofsky are the Editors of Meteorite magazine, a popular publication about rocks from space; it is aimed at interested amateurs, collectors, dealers and educators. Meteorite is published by the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arkansas. The magazine has an international circulation and is a quarterly publication. To go to the magazine's web site, please click here.
Email: lebofsky@lpl.arizona.edu
Marc Seigar Dr. Seigar is an Assistant Professor in the department of Physics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is an astronomer specializing in galactic structure.
Education Professional Experience Clair Small Rogers High School 2300 S. Dixieland Rd. Rogers, Arkansas 72758 Voice: (479) 636-2202
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