Who am I?
Short history
I grew up in Louth village, close to a town called Dundalk on the east coast of Ireland. In 1994 I went to live in the UK and study astrophysics at Cardiff University. There, I met my future wife (Roni) and generally had a four-year long party.
In the summer of 1998 we moved to California and I started graduate school in planetary science. I graduated from Caltech in May 2003.
From June-December 2003 I stayed and worked at Caltech as an assistant scientist with Prof. Bruce Murray. From December 2003 to Septemebr 2005, we lived in Boston while I worked as a postdoc at MIT with Prof. Maria Zuber.
After Boston, we moved to Flagstaff Arizona where I worked at the USGS astrogeology branch on the HiRISE project (even though I was employed by U. of A., don't ask... it was complicated). While we were in flagstaff we had our 3 (!) children, enjoyed the mountains and got to look at Mars at higher resolutions than ever before. We moved to Tucson in August 2007 when I started a faculty job at LPL.
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Hers a picture of Roni and I enjoying the scenary in Switzerland. We were there in mid-2001 for the 70th birthday of Sha'ul (Roni's father). If we look pretty pleased with ourselves it's because we are ;) |
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Where I come from
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This is where I grew up, Louth village, Ireland. This frame is part of a larger ASTER image. It is 3km x 3km and it shows my home village just to the right of center. The black arrow points to where our house is. The pink coloured sliver near the arrowhead is a field beside the house which is broad and flat, great for football. The colours are comprised of visible and near IR bands, vegetation appears red in this scheme. See the context views here, to locate this image. |