Dr. Ifan Payne and Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman are co-chairs of the Imaging of Objects in Space session at the IEEE Aerospace Conference being held in Big Sky, Montana, March 1 – 7, 2014. The session forms part of Track 5. Electro-Optics, Photonics, and Observation Systems. The session is aimed at those in the astronomy community concerned with imaging across a wide range of techniques: “This Session provides a forum for state of the art imaging of objects in space (both natural and man-made) using optical, infrared, and radio, radar techniques; single and multiple apertures, active and passive imaging; and ground-based […]

On May 3rd, 2013, MRO’s graduate research students, Tyler McCracken and Alisa Shtromberg received the Marvin Wilkening Award which is presented by the New Mexico Tech Physics Department and is awarded on an annual basis. The Marvin Wilkening Award was established by the  New Mexico Tech alumnus, Larry Boucher (1968, B.S. in Physics; 1981, M.S. in Physics), in honor of Professor Emeritus Marvin Wilkening and is given to the graduating physics student who has demonstrated excellence in experimental physics. The award consists of a certificate  and a technician’s tool kit valued at $950. Tyler McCracken is a graduate student in the physics department at New […]

On the evening of Thursday, February 28, 2013, Interferometer Support Scientist / E&PO Coordinator Dr. Daniel Klinglesmith, Optics Instrumentation Engineer, Alisa Shtromberg, and Graduate Students Tyler McCracken and Heather Bloemhard participated in the Math & Science Night event at Sarracino Middle School. Ms. Shtromberg, Ms. Bloemhard and Mr. McCracken set up three activities which included a Michelson interferometer where kids could align two beam spots to make fringes, an infrared laser with infrared viewing targets, and a white light set up to look at how they can manipulate it with different types of optics. Dr. Klinglesmith had a demonstration set up to show how […]