Gerald Cecil & Burch Field Seminar Students atop C. Pachon, Chile outside SOAR Telescope

Here are some of my professional and academic interests

I'm preparing instrumentation and developing science programs to use the SOAR telescope remotely

that, as Project Scientist in Tucson, I spent 4.5 years helping to design. For 2008-2009 I'm using grant funds to deploy a tunable filter (500-950 nm coverage) in the SOAR Adaptive Optics Module (SAM).

I can be reached at

gerald@thececils.org, 919-962-7209 (FAX 919-962-0480).

Meanwhile, in the current Resource War ...

Cost of US oil imports to date (current dollars) ...

US casualties
Coalition casualties

Don't worry, it's all for our defense (I guess the others aren't too worried about us yet. They should be.)

US Trade Deficit Counter

Enjoy this economic Ponzi scheme while it lasts. What follows soon will be grim indeed.