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Program Review

Physics and Astronomy

University of Hawai‘i Hilo

Version 1: February 26, 2017

Version 2: May 16, 2017

Contents

I. Mission Statement and Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

II. Secondary Accreditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

III. Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

IV. Program Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

IV.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

IV.2 Program Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

IV.3 Program Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

V. Evidence of Program Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

V.1 Evidence of Student Success - Assessment Based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

V.2 Success of Current Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

V.3 Former Student and Alumni Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

V.4 Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

VI. Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

VI.1 Program Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

VI.2 Resource Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

VI.3 Department Chair’s Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

VII. External Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

VIII.Memorandum Of Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

IX. Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

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Department of Physics and Astronomy Program Review 2016 - 2017

Appendices 105

A-1 American Institute of Physics Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

A-2 MOU - Institute for Astronomy & UHH Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

A-3 Physics and Astronomy Operation’s Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

A-4 Alignment of Physics Courses with UH-System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

A-5 UHH Core Competency Assessments - Written Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

A-6 UHH Core Competency Assessments - Quantitative Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

A-7 UHH Core Competency Assessments - Information Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

A-8 Faculty CV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

A-9 China Scholarship Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

A-10 NOI - Hoku Kea Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

A-11 Agreement with Berry College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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I. Mission Statement and Goals

The mission of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo (hereafter UHH) is:

‘A‘ohe pau ka ‘ike i ka halau ho‘okahiOne learns from many sources

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at UHH offers two programs, the Bachelors of Science degree inAstronomy and Bachelors of Arts degree in Physics. Both degrees have their own mission statements which areclosely aligned with the mission of UHH at large.

Physics Mission Statement1: The mission of the UH Hilo physics program is to provide students with arigorous, high-quality foundation in physics. The primary goal is to prepare students for graduate studies, forwork as professional physicists, or for careers in secondary education, engineering and just about any technicalor scientific fields. Our program supports the liberal arts mission of the University by providing general educationcourses for all students and service courses for the natural sciences and pre-health fields. The physics program has,and actively seeks, partnerships with other UH Hilo STEM programs. Although a quality undergraduate educationis the focus of our degree, our faculty, together with our students, conduct original research and make substantialcontributions to community education and service on the Big Island.

Astronomy Mission Statement2: The UH Hilo astronomy program aims to (a) develop the science knowledgeand analytic skills of students, whether they be majors or not, through a focus on the field of astronomy; and (b)instill an appreciation of science, particularly astronomy, in students. The program provides the students withtransferable skills so they can excel in a wide range of STEM-related fields. Through the study of astronomy,graduates will also learn to appreciate and understand science more broadly, enabling them to be more informedcitizens. The B.S. degree program, taking advantage of our access to Maunakea Observatories, provides thetraining needed for students seeking careers in astronomy—as professional astronomers, observatory technicalstaff, and educators. Our program supports the liberal arts mission of the University by providing general educationcourses in a field of major importance to the State of Hawai‘i.

The University of Hawai‘i’s 2011-2015 Strategic Plan identifies six different goals, which the Department alsorecognizes as important:

• Goal 1: Provide learning experiences and support to prepare students to thrive, compete, innovate andlead in their professional and personal lives

• Goal 2: Inspire excellence in teaching, research, and collaboration

• Goal 3: Foster a vibrant and sustainable environment within which to study, work, and live

• Goal 4: Cultivate, sustain and reflect a diverse, multicultural university that is rooted in the indigenoushistory of Hawai‘i

• Goal 5: Strengthen UH Hilo’s impact on the community, Island and state of Hawai‘i through responsivehigher education, community partnerships, and knowledge and technology transfer

• Goal 6: Facilitate organizational excellence through continuous innovation, responsible resource develop-ment, and effective communication

1http://astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/aphysics.php2http://astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/astronomy.php

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II. Secondary Accreditation

Not applicable

III. Executive Summary

The Department of Physics and Astronomy offers two degrees the B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Astronomy andminors in Physics and Astronomy. The Department is housed under the College of Arts and Sciences and theDivision of Natural Sciences. The program trains students interested in observational astronomy and physics.Our alumni continue their studies in related fields to either pursue master, doctoral or engineering degrees, theysecure jobs in observatories, museums, planetariums, and laboratories. The astronomy program attracts studentsmostly from the mainland while the physics program attracts students from the State of Hawai‘i. The astronomyprogram is about twice as large as the physics program in number of majors. Currently most faculty in thedepartment are trained as astronomers.

The Department has 4 tenure/tenure-track faculty, one instructor, one staff, and seven lecturers, two adjunctfaculty and one affiliate faculty3. The Department has an observatory on Maunakea, the Hoku Ke’a, whosedirector is one of the four tenure-line faculty. In its current condition the observatory is inoperable and slated tobe decommissioned but the situation may change in the next 6-9 months.

The operation’s budget of the department is currently $10,800 per year which is slated to the physics andastronomy laboratories, maintenance of two 4WD department vehicles to support field trips and to access theobservatory, minor equipment (faculty computer upgrades), and office supplies.

The program services a large number of non-majors. Most of the students the department services major inBiology and Marine Science who require a one-year freshman physics class. The Department also services majorsin Computer Science, Geology, Chemistry, Agriculture, pre-Engineering, and Natural Science with freshmanphysics courses that are part of their program requirements. The department offers several courses that meet theGE requirements, especially in astronomy, open to all majors and are taken mostly by non-science majors.

Since the last program review in 2006, the Department has seen the following changes:

1. The Physics and Astronomy Department has expanded its curriculum offerings to include more sophomorelaboratories and has streamlined freshman labs in physics and astronomy.

2. With guaranteed access to state-of-the-art telescopes on Maunakea the astronomy program focuses onobservational astronomy.

3. The number of full-time faculty decreased from nine to five since the last program review due to a numberof unexpected circumstances. At nine faculty, the review process culminated with the recommendation thatone experimental physicist be brought onboard. The growth of faculty in the department turned negativein 2012 and remains so in AY4 2016-17 even with the addition of a new hire starting in Fall 2017.

4. The number of majors has fluctuated and remains at about 40 in Astronomy and 15 in Physics. Thenumber of graduates also fluctuates yearly and ranges from 2-8 but is on average 6.1 in Astronomy and 3.5in Physics. These numbers are similar to peer institutions.

Looking into the future, the Department plans to:

3Adjunct and affiliate faculty are non-salaried appointments; affiliate faculty do research and adjunct faculty can teach at UHH4Academic Year

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1. Continue to justify and request lecturers be replaced with full-time faculty.

2. Utilize the guaranteed access to all telescopes on Maunakea efficiently and responsibly and develop neweducational and research opportunities with this unique resource.

3. Seek a new site for the educational observatory of Hoku Ke‘a on the island of Hawai‘i.5

4. Continue to improve our academic program and research activities, as well as nurture a collegial workingenvironment among faculty and students.

5The fate of the UHH observatory is in the hands of the Hawai‘i State Legal and Executive branches.

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IV. Program Organization

IV.1 Background

Physics and Astronomy Programs: The priority of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is to supportthe B.S. in astronomy, B.A. in physics, and respective minor degrees. In addition, the Department services elevendegree programs, the pre-engineering program, and the STEM Research Honors and Energy Science certificates.The eleven degree programs offered by the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Marine Science, ComputerScience and Natural Science and the pre-engineering track require a one or two semester class in freshman physics.The certificates require upper division courses in physics and astronomy. Finally, the Department supports theuniversity at large by offering an introductory courses in astronomy and physics that fulfill the Natural Sciencegeneral education requirements.

Size of Bachelor’s Class by Number of FTE Faculty in Physics Departments Offering Only Bachelor’s Degrees

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The two degree programs in the Department are designedto prepare UHH students to compete for technical jobs inastronomy, physics and related fields or continue onto grad-uate school. Our alumni have secured jobs at astronomicalobservatories, planetariums, science museums, research labs,private industry, and some have continued their educationin master and doctoral degree programs in various fields.Some alumni have followed the educational track and aftercertification by the appropriate State, are teaching sciencein high schools.

Synergy of Physics and Astronomy at UHH – According tothe American Institute of Physics (hereafter AIP) “Physicsdepartments that award a bachelors degree as their highestdegree typically have between 3 and 8 fulltime equivalentfaculty6,” (included in Appendix A-1). UHH currently has13 of a full-time physics professor and thus the teaching ofphysics is being carried out by the three astronomy faculty7,two instructors8 and five short-term hires defined as lectur-ers in the UH system. Among US institutions undergradu-ate programs in astronomy are housed as a specialization inphysics and tend to be smaller in faculty and students thanthe physics programs. With some exceptions large physicsand astronomy programs are housed in institutions that alsooffer doctoral degrees. This is not the case at UHH. At UHHmore students are enrolled in astronomy than in physics andsince its inception, more students are graduating with anastronomy rather than a physics degree. The astronomyfour-year degree program was established in 1997 and UHHconferred the first astronomy degree in 2001. Since 2001, on average 63% (6.1 students) of our majors havegraduated with an astronomy degree. In contrast, the physics program established earlier graduated on average1.5 students per year before the first astronomy degree was conferred and 3.5 after the creation of the astronomydegree. Clearly, the astronomy program boosted the physics program.

6Mulvey et al. American Institute of Physics Statistical Research Center: focus on, February 2017, page 37One of which is the Director of the Hoku Kea Telescope and has a reduced teaching load.8On January 18, 2017, one of the two instructors passed away.

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In recent years, a select number of astronomy majors have opted to pursue both degrees. Since 2010/2011 thenumber of degrees granted in physics and astronomy are comparable (see Table 1) and in the period 2010/2011through 2015/2016 on average 58% are in astronomy and 42%, in physics. UHH is unique in that most studentsenter the astronomy program and once enrolled, a few elect to add the B.A. in physics. This trend is quitedifferent than what is seen in other physics and astronomy departments.

Table 1: UHH Graduates: 2011-2017

Degree 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017†

B.A. Physics (%) 8 (50) 4 (40) 2 (50) 3 (33) 3 (30) 5 (36) 7 (58)B.S. Astronomy (%) 8 (50) 6 (60) 2 (50) 6 (67) 7 (70) 9 (64) 5 (42)

Double Major‡ (%) 6 (60) 4 (67) 1 (33) 3 (50) 3 (43) 4 (40) 5 (71)

Total Degrees 16 10 4 9 10 14 12†Expected numbers as of December 1, 2016

The synergy between the physics and astronomy programs cannot be overstated. It has allowed the physicsprogram to grow and remain in spite of the administration’s desire to discontinue it. This synergy evidentlysupports the astronomy program by providing all service courses in physics with the added value that many ofthe faculty that teach physics are trained astronomers and draw from astronomy to motivate physics problems.Astronomy has been identified as one of the specializations of the UHH campus and it is relevant to the Stateof Hawai‘i because of the natural resources offered by the mountain of Maunakea, arguably the best site in theNorthern Hemisphere or in the world to observe the sky. To service both degrees by 2001 the Department hadgrown to have three astronomy and two physics tenure-line faculty and three instructors. Unfortunately theDepartment suffered several setbacks9 and in 2017 with more majors than in 2001, it had lost three permanentpositions. The Department currently has three astronomy professors (one tenured), one tenured physics professorwith a 60% reduced teaching load10, one instructor, and seven lecturers11. The synergy of the astronomy andphysics programs at UHH have undoubtedly benefited each other but the growth of the programs has beenstunted.

A successful astronomy program relies heavily on a strong physics program. This is evident especially in the upperdivision astronomy courses that bring together diverse elements from several branches of physics and mathematics.UHH astronomy and physics majors who have a solid training in freshman physics and mathematics pass upperdivision astronomy courses with good grades and in their first try and also engage successfully in research projects.To ensure competency in physics, the physics and astronomy degree programs share the majority of the requiredcourses. All lower division courses in physics and mathematics are the same for both majors and two of the fiveupper division physics courses required for the physics degree are also required for the astronomy degree. Thephysics and astronomy programs have been designed purposely to allow students to change between these twomajors or obtain both degrees in four years if they so choose.

Service: Our department offers several service courses mainly at the freshman level. A common denominatoramong the service courses is they instill critical thinking and use mathematics extensively to describe the phys-

9In 2008 Michael West leaves and Marianne Takamiya replaces West; in 2009 Robert Fox retires; in 2011 David James leaves; in2011 Jesse Goldman replaces Fox; in 2012 R. Pierre Martin replaces James; in 2012 Richard Crowe dies; in 2012 William Heacoxretires; in 2012 Jay Slivkoff (APT) dies; in 2013 Kathy Cooksey replaces Richard Crowe; in 2014 Jesse Goldman leaves, in 2017Norman Purves dies.

10Physics faculty has 23

duties assigned to the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management (CAFNRM).11Lecturers are casual semester-by-semester hires who cover classes as needed but do not have a contract with the University and

are unable to commit long-term to our students or institution. A few of them have permanent jobs elsewhere. The teaching load oflecturers in the Department is 24 credits for Spring 2017.

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ical world. We address a wide range of natural phenomena and explain the laws of physics conceptually andquantitatively depending on the level of the course.

Most non-major students find algebra-based freshman physics such as PHYS 106 and PHYS 10712 inspiring yetchallenging because of the wide breath of material covered and extensive use of mathematics. The calculus-basedphysics, PHYS 170 and PHYS 171, are required for majors and non-majors and are rigorous freshman coursessuited for pre-engineers and physical science majors. These freshman physics courses are required for severaldegrees (see Table 11) but are not a requirement for a class except for Physical Oceanography (MARE 440)13 inthe Marine Science program that lists PHYS 170/170L or PHYS 106/170L as pre-requisites. Most students atUHH take freshman physics, either the algebra or calculus-based track, in their senior year.

The department offers three freshman courses in astronomy that fulfill the Natural Science general educationrequirement at UHH. ASTR 110, General Astronomy, continues to be the course that attracts the largest number ofmajors in other disciplines. The Department offers this elective every semester with enrollments of approximately50 students. Accompanying this lecture is the General Astronomy lab, ASTR 110L, that provides first handexperience using small aperture telescopes, activities at the ’Imiloa Astronomy Center planetarium, and fieldtrips to the slopes of Maunakea. Life in the Universe, ASTR 150, is an introductory course that covers part ofASTR 110 but expands on the exciting and fast moving field of exoplanets and origin of life intersecting areas ofastronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology. This course is offered in spring semesters only with enrollments of10-20 students.

Research: Astronomy and physics are sciences that advance on par with technology while also triggering tech-nological revolutions to reach their goals. Much of the development in astronomy is thus tied to technology and toprovide opportunities for our students to skillfully embrace current state-of-the-art technologies, our astronomyprogram has developed a number of lower and upper division labs. The lab activities utilize technology to em-phasize the learning process and provide problem-solving opportunities while lessening the emphasis on obtainingthe correct answer. In current times where solutions of textbook problems are easily accessible, the departmentviews that professionals trained in open-ended problems are better prepared to succeed in the workforce.

UHH has access to ten observatories on the summit of Maunakea.14 In addition, the Department owns the HokuKe‘a observatory that houses a 0.9m telescope on the summit but is unfortunately inoperable at the momentand slated to be decommissioned. With Maunakea’s state-of-the-art instruments and telescopes, astronomyresearchers and students can engage in research through a competitive time allocation process. The telescopeallocation committee (TAC) is managed by the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Manoa (hereafterUHM) and is composed of 8-9 faculty, one of which is from UHH and the rest from UHM. Since September 2016,the Department was granted guaranteed time on all Maunakea telescopes at the level of 6 nights per year forfive years, 10 nights for the next 5 years and 15 nights thereafter. This allocation comes from the UH systemwith a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Astronomy at UH Manoa (See Appendix A-2). TheUHH telescope allocation committee (UHHTAC) is managed entirely by the department and is composed of 4astronomers, 2 of which are UHH faculty and 2 are astronomers from the observatories, all appointed by the chairof the department. The chair of the UHHTAC is a UHH faculty.

12PHYS 106 and 107 are in the process of being renumbered to PHYS 151 and 152. They will continue to be identified as PHYS106 and 107 throughout the document except in a few instances where UHH managed lists have already updated this change.

13MARE 440 Physical Oceanography (3): Topics in physical oceanography include: distribution of water characteristics inthe ocean; dynamics of circulation; water masses; wave characteristics including formation, propagation, dispersion and refraction;dynamic and equilibrium theories of tides as well as tsunami, seiche, and internal waves; sound and optics; and the latest methodsand instrumentation in physical oceanography. Pre: MARE 201, MATH 205, PHYS 170/170L, or PHYS 106/170L, and instructor’sconsent. Recommended: MATH 206.

14Keck I & Keck II 10m, Subaru 8.2m, Gemini 8.0 m, CFHT 4m, IRTF 3.8m, SMA radio interferometer, JCMT, UH2.2m, andUKIRT 3.8m

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Most faculty mentor more than one student. These activities regularly result in research presentations at nationaland international venues. In addition, faculty are engaged in research activities with national and internationalcollaborators and supported by extramural and intramural grants.

Outreach: The astronomy faculty and students engage yearlong in outreach activities to promote astronomyto the public, K-12 students, and the UHH community. UHH is also part of the Maunakea Astronomy OutreachCommittee (MKAOC)15 that coordinates and organizes outreach efforts of all the Maunakea observatories andinstitutions with ties to astronomy. Faculty, staff and students team up to develop activities and present activitiesand information to the public. The Department recognizes these efforts are important for a public institutionlike the UHH and expects these activities will allow the community to better understand and support our efforts.Through these activities, the Department also wishes to give back to the local community.

The astronomy majors lead the University Astrophysics Club (UAC) and one of our faculty mentors the club.The UAC volunteers at the Visitor Center, the entryway to all public to Maunakea, and host visiting students tocampus with talks and star viewing sessions island-wide.

In 2016, the department started the Robotics Club and in its first year the team participated in the NASA RoboticsCompetition in Houston, Texas. This year, two UHH teams from the Robotics Club will be participating in theNASA Robotics Competition and in the Swarmathon. This club is mentored by a lecturer and an instructor.

IV.2 Program Goals

Physics and Astronomy Majors

The goals of our two programs are stated in the UHH website.

The 2015-2016 UHH catalog states Physics majors should16:

1. effectively express scientific ideas in writing;

2. use standard mathematical and computational tools to solve problems in physics and astrophysics;

3. develop experimental skills appropriate for physics work;

4. become proficient at finding and analyzing scientific literature;

5. participate in original research projects;

6. earn internship and employment opportunities as appropriate.

The 2015-2016 UHH catalog states Astronomy majors should17:

1. understand the relations between astronomy and other areas of science;

2. solve problems with scientific reasoning and critical thinking skills;

3. communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing; and

4. appreciate the impact of astronomy in the state of Hawai‘i.

15http://www.mkaoc.org/16http://hilo.hawaii.edu/catalog/physics17http://hilo.hawaii.edu/catalog/astronomy

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The Department has recently redesigned the degree requirements and course contents. These changes are aresult of an internal assessment of the performance of students especially in upper division astronomy courses.Of interest are the numbers of students at different levels. The number of juniors in astronomy is lower thansophomore majors while the trend is reversed in physics. The Department is currently further assessing thesetrends to adjust the academic programs and to identify pinch-points in our programs.

Since August 2014, our Department has been tracking our alumni to build up a database of UHH physics andastronomy graduates. Surveys of and anecdotal feedback from our alumni have allowed us to reassess our goals tochange our course goals, course content, and degree requirements. One of the main desires of the alumni surveyedis that UHH develops a master degree program. Moving forward, the Department will continue to improve ourprogram to align itself with the ever-changing job market and graduate admissions process.

Non-Majors

Students outside the major should have:1. developed a basic level of problem solving skills, as encountered solving problems in physics and astronomy,

that they can apply in problems they encounter in their majors, in their careers, and generic problems;

2. developed an understanding of the scientific method as applied in every day life and in their fields ofexpertise; and

3. developed an appreciation of the natural world and new technologies from our current understanding ofphysics and astronomy.

The Department continues to promote and certify courses that fulfill the Natural Science General Education(hereafter GE) requirements. The GE courses currently certified are listed in Table 2. The certifications arefor Writing Intensive (WI), Hawai‘i Pan-Pacific (HPP), Global and Community Citizenship (GCC), QuantitativeReasoning (GQ), and Natural Science Requirement (GN) and each year these certifications may change dependingon year of approval and years of certification. Detail information on the GE requirements and academic catalogfor which courses are certified can be found in http://hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/gened/.

Table 2: ASTR & PHYS General Education Courses

Name Lecture Laboratory Certification

General Astronomy ASTR 110 ASTR 110L - Gen. Astronomy Lab WI†, GN

Life in the Universe ASTR 150 ASTR 110L - Gen. Astronomy Lab§ GN

Principles of Astronomy I ASTR 180 ASTR 110L - Gen. Astronomy Lab§ GQ, GN

Physics for Liberal Arts PHYS 115 none WI, GN

Weather & Climate of Hawai‘i PHYS 120 none WI, GN, HPP

College Physics I PHYS 151 PHYS 170L - General Physics I Laboratory GN, WI†

Colelge Physics II PHYS 152 PHYS 171L - General Physics II Laboratory GN, WI†

General Physics I: Mechanics PHYS 170 PHYS 170L - General Physics I Laboratory GN, WI†

General Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism PHYS 171 PHYS 171L - General Physics II Laboratory GN, WI†

Literature Review Practicum ASTR 375 none WI

Cosmos and Culture ASTR 381 none WI, GCC‡

Software System for Astronomy ASTR 385 none GCC‡

Space Studies Seminar PHYS/ASTR 496 none WI

†Laboratory only is Writing Intensive

§GE Committee would prefer that numbering is the same of lecture and lab

‡Application submitted February 2017

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IV.3 Program Components

The B.S. in Astronomy and B.A. in Physics are designed to be versatile enough to accommodate students thatplan to directly enter the job market or continue on to graduate school. Admission to the program is open toUHH students regardless of SAT scores. The two degrees overlap considerably in the first 5 first semesters as seenon Table 3. The required courses amount to 74 credits for the B.S. in Astronomy and 72 for the B.A. in Physics.The total number of credits required to graduate from UHH is 120 thus students have to pick up 46-48 creditsin other courses while fulfilling their general education requirements. Students seeking both degrees can do so infour years following the plan presented in Table 4. These double majors will have 80 credits in required courses.

Table 3: Four-year Academic Plan for B.S. Astronomy and B.A. Physics†

YearFall Semester Spring Semester Credits

B.S. ASTR B.A. PHYS B.S. ASTR B.A. PHYS B.S. ASTR B.A. PHYS

1

PHYS 170 PHYS 171

28 24

PHYS 170L PHYS 171L

MATH 205 MATH 206

ASTR 180N.S. elec.

ASTR 181N.S. elective

ASTR 110L CS 150

2

PHYS 270 ASTR/PHYS 260

24 22

MATH 300 ASTR/PHYS 260L

MATH 231 PHYS 341

ASTR 250N.S. elective

CHEM 161N.S. elective

ASTR 250L CHEM 161L

3

PHYS 331

14 15MATH 232

ASTR 350PHYS 371‡

ASTR 351 PHYS 330

ASTR 350L¶ ASTR 351L¶ MATH 311

4

ASTR/PHYS 495A ASTR/PHYS 495B8 11

ASTR electivePHYS 430‡

ASTR elective PHYS electivePHYS elective

Total 74 72

† Items in italics are courses common to both degree programs.¶ The upper division astronomy labs will be required for the B.S. in Astronomy degree starting Fall 2017.‡ PHYS 371 and PHYS 430 are taught in alternate years.

The academic requirements for the physics and astronomy degrees and a proposed four-year plan are shown inTable 3. The Department expects to offer them in this cadence starting Fall 2017. The administration regularlyasks all department to cancel courses when their enrollments are low. Every semester and across campus, lowenrolled classes are cancelled. In our department, these cancellations affect mostly upper division required andelective courses18 which are sometimes taught as directed reading classes to help students graduate on time. Theadministration has asked us to offer the ASTR 350/351 sequence every other year to avoid cancellations the weekbefore classes start. The department is reviewing this request and assessing the impact to students, and hopesto have a thought-out proposal after the ongoing program review is finished.

Both degrees require two years of courses that are in common. In the third and fourth year, the programs differmainly in the choice of electives. Nonetheless, astronomy majors require on average two additional courses persemester. Astronomy majors can also choose upper division electives from the list of physics courses and students

18ASTR 350, ASTR 351, PHYS 330, PHYS 331, PHYS 341, PHYS 430

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who successfully do so finish the physics requirements and receive both degrees. In recent years, more studentsare opting to double major in physics and astronomy at UHH which is also consistent with nationwide trends.According to the AIP19 physics students have broad interests and 36% of physics bachelors in the academic year2013/2014 reported having a double major in a wide variety of disciplines20. This is a large percentage giventhat nationwide only 5% of bachelors of all disciplines choose to double major. At UHH the percentage of doublemajors in physics and astronomy is even higher. Students receiving both degrees ranges from 33-71% within thelast six years, and is on average 52%. This is a lower limit as some of our majors also double major in disciplinessuch as Computer Science, Mathematics, Biology, Geology, Japanese Studies, etc.

Table 4: Four-year Academic Plan for Astronomy and Physics Double Majors†

YearFall Semester Spring Semester Credits

B.S. ASTR B.A. PHYS B.S. ASTR B.A. PHYS B.S. ASTR & B.A. PHYS

1

PHYS 170 PHYS 171

28

PHYS 170L PHYS 171L

MATH 205 MATH 206

ASTR 180 ASTR 181

ASTR 110L CS 150

2

PHYS 270 ASTR/PHYS 260

24

MATH 300 ASTR/PHYS 260L

MATH 231 PHYS 341

ASTR 250 CHEM 161

ASTR 250L CHEM 161L

3

PHYS 371‡ PHYS 330

20MATH 232 ASTR 351

ASTR 350 ASTR 351L

ASTR 350L MATH 311

4

ASTR/PHYS 495A

8PHYS 331 ASTR/PHYS 495B

PHYS 430‡Total 80

† The total number of credits in required courses for the double major is 80.‡ PHYS 371 and PHYS 430 are taught in alternate years.

The Department has tried to align the two degrees to cater to interested students. In effect, the departmentoffers three tracks: astronomy, physics and astrophysics tracks. Students interested in the latter are advised topurposely and carefully choose the upper division electives. An example four-year class schedule is shown inTable 4. This scenario is commonly followed by students that have double-majored in astronomy and physics.

Students enrolled in the B.S. in astronomy tend to add the physics degree in their third year at UHH. The B.S.in astronomy degree differs from the B.A. in physics only in the upper division courses. The following upperdivision courses are required for the physics but are not required for the astronomy degree: PHYS 371 (ClassicalMechanics), PHYS 330 (Electromagnetism), and PHYS 430 (Quantum Mechanics I), and MATH 311 (LinearAlgebra). The astronomy degree requires six credits of upper division astronomy or physics electives (ASTR elec.see Table 3) which can be met with two of the three physics upper division courses. By taking a third upperdivision course the astronomy major also fulfills the physics requirements. Because Quantum Mechanics (QM) and

19American Institute of Physics (AIP) Statistical Research Center, Spring 2016: www.aip.org/statistcs20Mathematics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Engineering, Chemistry, Computer & Information Sciences, Music & Fine Arts, Phi-

losophy & Theology, Education & Teaching Certification, Biology and Economics

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Electromagnetism (EM) are fundamental topics in astronomy and astrophysics, these are usually recommendedfor those astronomy majors intending to go into graduate school. Astronomy majors who then take PHYS 371can also graduate with a physics degree. In fact many of the astronomy majors have obtained the physics degreefollowing this example.

Students enrolled in the B.A. in physics degree can use astronomy courses to count as the 12 credits of NaturalScience electives (N.S. elec. see Table 3) and as the six credits of upper division physics electives (PHYS elec.see Table 3). In the first two years, the physics major will take ASTR 180, ASTR 110L, ASTR 181, ASTR250, ASTR 250L, CHEM 161, and CHEM 161L which can count as the N.S. elec. The student will have morethan 12 credits of N.S. elec. In the upper division level, ASTR 350 and ASTR 351, which cover a wide rangeof physics concepts and applications, will count as the six credits of PHYS electives. It is not surprising thatstudents initially enrolled in the astronomy program tend to be the ones that pursue both degrees. The situationis seldom mirrored for physics students because of the larger number of course dependencies in the astronomytrack. Nonetheless, by advising students early, they can take the appropriate pre-required courses and add theastronomy degree.

The schedule for both degrees is front-loaded with major requirement courses. From student and alumni surveysand assessment of majors, the Department has started to advice that they take mathematics and physics coursesin their first semester at UHH and concentrate on the GE courses later in their studies. This is different fromwhat the UH Advising Center recommends which is that students ease into college by taking more GE than majorrequired courses (see other physical sciences degree plans21). From a small survey of our majors, the outcomesare quite opposite: students who took two semesters of physics and mathematics in their first year at UHH eitherchange majors at the end of the first year or graduated in four years in physics or astronomy. Financially andacademically, the Department views changing major after the first year as a sound decision. Fulfilling a largenumber of GE requirements and taking a light load of physics and mathematics courses in the first years putsstudents in financial and academic risk without a realistic exit strategy. Study skills needed to succeed in physicsand astronomy rely heavily on a vast experience of solving a wide range of problem and making connectionsbetween physics, mathematics and astronomy early on is advantageous.

The four-year academic plans in Tables 3 & 4 are closely tied to the cadence in which the Department proposesand the administration allows courses to be taught. Since the last program review in 2005/2006, our Departmenthas explored several combinations of course offerings for fall and spring. The calculus-based freshman physicscourses, PHYS 170 and PHYS 171, have seen the most modifications. Calculus I was a co-requirement until 2002but became a pre-requirement afterward. In 2010, the department rolled that back to being a co-requirement asthere was no evidence of better class performance or improvement of performance in upper division courses. Thedepartment also explored the concept of cohorts and created two new courses PHYS 172 and PHYS 173 whichwere exactly like PHYS 170/171 but taught for majors only. The PHYS 172/173 sequence was taught spring/falland the PHYS 170/171 was taught fall/spring. Students in MATH 205 who were ready to take physics in theirfirst semester did not wait and soon the intend of this concept watered-down. However, the main problem mayhave been staffing.

The duties of the Department to provide the necessary service courses to support other majors and to providea coherent set of courses for the physics and astronomy majors each semester are shown on Tables 5 and 6. Onoccasions, internship courses (ASTR 400) and research oriented courses (ASTR 432 and PHYS 432) are offeredto allow students to obtain credit for research projects carried out with faculty, observatory astronomers oradjunct faculty, i.e. visiting scientists or UH Manoa faculty. In addition, a few upper division elective courses areoffered such as Comparative Planetology (ASTR 352), Literature Review Practicum (ASTR 375), Instrumentsand Techniques (ASTR 450), Gravitation and Cosmology (ASTR 460), Mathematical Physics (PHYS 360 cross-listed as MATH 360), and Chaos (PHYS 380 cross-listed as MATH 380). A few general courses are also offered

21https://hilo.hawaii.edu/uhh/vcaa/CheckSheetSamplePlans16-17.php

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such as Physics for Liberal Arts (PHYS 115), Weather and Climate of Hawai‘i (PHYS 120), ASTR/PHYS 224(Spaceflight), ASTR/PHYS 230 (Applied Electronics), and the occasional special topics (course number endingin 94), experimental (ending in 98) and directed studies courses (ending in 99).

Table 5: Department Course Offerings Fall/Spring: PHYSFall Semester Spring Semester

ID Title ID Title

PHYS 106 College Physics I PHYS 106 College Physics I

PHYS 106L College Physics I Lab (PHYS 106L) (College Physics I Lab

PHYS 107 College Physics II PHYS 107 College Physics II

(PHYS 107L) College Physics II Lab PHYS 107 College Physics II

PHYS 170 General Physics I PHYS 170 General Physics I

PHYS 170L General Physics I Lab (PHYS 170L) General Physics I Lab

PHYS 171 General Physics II PHYS 171 General Physics II

(PHYS 171L) General Physics II Lab PHYS 171L General Physics II Lab

PHYS 270 Introduction to Modern Physics PHYS 260† Computational Physics & Astronomy

PHYS 260L† Computational Physics & Astronomy Lab

PHYS 331 Optics PHYS 330 Electromagnetism

PHYS 371‡ Classical Mechanics PHYS 341 Thermodynamics

PHYS 430‡ Quantum Mechanics PHYS 495A Seminar A

PHYS 495A Seminar A PHYS 495B Seminar B

PHYS 495B Seminar B

† Same as ASTR 260 and ASTR 260L‡ PHYS 371 and PHYS 430 are taught in alternate years.

Table 6: Department Course Offerings Fall/Spring: ASTRFall Semester Spring Semester

ID Title ID Title

ASTR 110 General Astronomy ASTR 110 General Astronomy

ASTR 150 Life in the Universe

ASTR 110L General Astronomy Lab ASTR 110L General Astronomy Lab

ASTR 180 Principles of Astronomy I ASTR 181 Principles of Astronomy II

ASTR 250 Observational Astronomy ASTR 260† Computational Physics & Astronomy

ASTR 250L Observational Astronomy Lab ASTR 260L† Computational Physics & Astronomy Lab

ASTR 350 Stellar Astrophysics ASTR 351 Galactic & Extragalactic Astronomy

ASTR 350L Stellar Astrophysics Lab ASTR 351L Galactic & Extragalactic Astronomy Lab

ASTR 495A Seminar A ASTR 495A Seminar A

ASTR 495A Seminar A ASTR 495B Seminar B

† Same as PHYS 260 and PHYS 260L

There are a list of courses that have not been taught in the last 10 years. These are: PHYS 110 (Physics ofContemporary Issues), PHYS/ASTR 111 (Introduction to Space Exploration), ASTR 130 (Introduction to SpaceScience), PHYS 150 (World Models).

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Comparison With Other Programs: Graduation Rates and Enrollments

Physics: From the latest AIP survey of enrollments and degrees published in 2015, a total of 7,526 physics

bachelor’s degrees22 were awarded in the U.S. in 2014. Physics degrees amount only to a small percentage(0.4%) of the total number of 1.8 million bachelor’s degreed conferred in 2014 in the US. For every 1,000bachelor’s degrees awarded, only 4 were in physics (including astronomy). In Spring 2014, from the 663 de-grees conferred three were in physics and six in astronomy. UHH conferred 1% of degrees in physics & as-tronomy, higher than nationwide. When considering only the physics degree, UHH is consistent with thenational values (0.5%), when including only the astronomy degrees, UHH fares better than the national av-erage (0.9%), and when considering both degrees, UHH fares even better at 1.5%. These numbers are im-pressive when learning that the largest undergraduate programs in the US are in universities that also offergraduate degrees in the discipline. UHH does not offer a master or PhD degree in astronomy or physics.

Figure 2: Bachelor degrees in physics from 1955 to 2014.AIP focus on publication.

The variations in total number of degrees in physics nationallyhas varied largely over the last decades reaching high numbersof approximately 6,000 in the 1970s and 2010’s and reachinglows of approximately 3,650 in 2000. However, over the lastdecade the number of physics degrees has increased steadilyin the US and it has reached its maximum in 2014 at 7,526as can be seen in Figure 2. UHH has one of the 751 degree-granting physics departments in the US and a crude averagenumber of graduates per program is estimated to be 10 stu-dents. Compared to this very crude average, our programsgranted a similar number of degrees of 10.5 in a time period ofsix year from AY 2010-11 to AY 2015-16 (see Table 1). Overallthe number of graduates at UHH can vary largely from year toyear. For example, at the end of AY 2012-13, the administra-tion was seriously considering cancelling the B.A. in Physicswhen the graduation numbers were two in physics and twoin astronomy. This was not the first time the program wasthreatened and the faculty understands that there are toughfinancial decisions that it must take. However, these considerations engender anxiety and poor morale amongfaculty and staff and only degrade the quality of the program as faculty tend to leave and vacated positions arenot filled. A wider time span and correlations with external and internal factors affecting UHH would help theinstitution understand the reasons for these variations and the correct changes if any that need to be implemented.

Astronomy: US institutions produced 428 bachelor’s in astronomy in AY 2013-14 among 67 departments as shownon Figure 3. On average, each department granted six degrees that year. UHH graduated six astronomy majorsin the same year, thus the numbers at UHH are consistent with the national average. It is worth mentioning thatthe distribution of the number of degrees is not normal. A group of 13 universities (19%) identified in Table 7 thatgranted more than 10 degrees each, also offer the Ph.D. Astronomy. Of interest is also the number of studentstaking a general astronomy course (Column 6 in Table 7 ASTR 101). The number of students taking a generalcourse in astronomy is in some cases one order of magnitude larger than at UHH, which is directly related to thesize of these institutions and shows indirect evidence at how different these institutions are from UHH. A bettercomparison for UHH is the other group of institutions granting less than 10 degrees per year that represent themajority of the US institutions granting astronomy degrees (see Figure 3).

22The definition of a physics degree for the purposes of the AIP survey include all physics concentrations including astronomy.

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Figure 3: Distribution of bachelor degrees in astronomy granted in AY 2013-14 by institutions listed on Tables 7, 8, & 9.

Table 7: Institutions With > 10 Astronomy Graduates and UHH†‡

Institution Degrees JR SR Dept. Type ASTR 101 Highest DegreeNorthern Arizona 11 21 37 c 272 Ph.D.U. California, Berkeley 36 15 40 s 1509 Ph.D.U. California, Los Angeles 14 17 25 c 1519 Ph.D.U. of Colorado, Boulder 42 70 90 s 1588 Ph.D.Florida Institute of Technology 17 11 22 c 112 Ph.D.U. of Maryland, College Park 15 11 27 s 762 Ph.D.Boston University 12 10 15 s 806 Ph.D.U. of Michigan 13 10 16 s 2502 Ph.D.U. of Minnesota 15 11 36 s 1160 Ph.D.Pennsylvania State U. 14 12 26 s 4160 Ph.D.U. of Texas, Austin 16 16 43 s 2124 Ph.D.U. of Washington 27 16 29 s 1952 Ph.D.U. of Wisconsin, Madison 15 15 15 s 874 Ph.D.

U. of Hawai’i at Hilo 6 6 10 c 107 bachelor

† Data for 2013-2014 academic year‡Source: American Physical Society APS

The achievements of UHH graduates holding degrees in astronomy and physics having secured a variety of jobsis a clear indicator of the success of the programs. The scant data from our alumni does not allow us to fully anddirectly compare our students’ achievements with other institutions’ however from a cohort of 31 respondents, weconclude that UHH is different from most undergraduate universities in where the alumni are after graduation.A survey of the AIP reported that of 5,760 physics bachelor’s who graduated in 2007 and 2008, 44% obtain

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Table 8: Institutions With < 10 Astronomy Graduates and UHH†‡

Institution Degrees JR SR Dept. Type ASTR 101 Highest DegreeEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical, AZ 0 0 0 c 31 bachelorSouthern CA-U of USC 0 1 1 c 526 bachelorConnecticut College 0 0 0 c 91 bachelorEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical, FL 3 9 6 c 18 bachelorAgnes Scott College 1 1 1 52 bachelorValdosta State U 0 2 4 c 428 bachelorBenedictine Coll 1 1 2 c 72 bachelorKansas-U of 3 6 9 c 254 bachelorMount Holyoke Coll 1 1 2 s 235 bachelorSmith Coll 4 3 4 s 109 bachelorWellesley Coll 3 6 5 s 179 bachelorWilliams Coll 5 3 2 s 56 bachelorWayne State U 0 2 3 c 1142 bachelorMinnesota St U-Mankato 1 - 1 c 672 bachelorDartmouth Coll 2 2 0 c 301 bachelorBarnard Coll 1 0 1 c 100 bachelorColgate U 4 5 6 c 161 bachelorRochester-U of 7 3 3 c 149 bachelorSUNY Coll at New Paltz 0 5 5 c 410 bachelor

SUNY-Stony Brook§ 6 8 17 c 511 bachelorUnion Coll 1 0 0 c 58 bachelorVassar Coll 4 2 6 c 137 bachelorOhio Wesleyan U 0 2 2 c 92 bachelorToledo-U of 0 6 6 c - bachelorYoungstown State U 1 5 2 c 521 bachelorHaverford Coll 5 2 5 c 11 bachelorLycoming Coll 2 5 1 c 150 bachelorSwarthmore Coll 0 1 5 c 50 bachelorVillanova U 4 3 7 s 170 bachelorCharleston-Coll of 3 12 8 c 530 bachelor

George Mason U§ 1 6 5 c 1382 bachelorWhitman Coll 6 4 6 s 160 bachelor


† Data for 2013-2014 academic year‡Source: American Physical Society APS§ Institution does offer graduate degree in Physics but not Astronomy

Table 9: Institutions With < 10 Astronomy Graduates and UHH†‡

Institution Degrees JR SR Dept. Type ASTR 101 Highest DegreeU. of Arizona 7 15 22 c 1410 Ph.D.San Diego State U. 1 11 8 s 905 masterWesleyan 1 2 5 s 327 masterYale U. 2 5 7 s 307 Ph.D.Florida-U of 2 10 17 s 1337 Ph.D.Illinois-U of, Urbana 8 12 11 s 2451 Ph.D.Indiana U-Bloomington 3 7 5 s 2108 Ph.D.Iowa-U of 8 5 11 c 519 masterHarvard 5 11 15 s 66 Ph.D.Massachusetts-U of, Amherst 9 21 22 s 1195 Ph.D.Tufts 0 0 0 c 268 Ph.D.Michigan State U 7 25 16 c 129 Ph.D.Princeton U 4 11 5 s 213 Ph.D.Columbia U 6 13 9 s 348 Ph.D.Cornell U 0 5 1 s 388 Ph.D.Case Western Reserve U 5 8 1 s 184 Ph.D.Ohio State U 7 17 22 s 1674 Ph.D.Pittsburgh-U of 3 3 0 c 954 Ph.D.Rice U 5 2 8 c 167 Ph.D.Virginia-U of 5 10 19 s 1741 Ph.D.Wyoming-U of 6 5 5 c 266 Ph.D.


† Data for 2013-2014 academic year‡Source: American Physical Society APS

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employment while 56% went onto graduate school. From our survey of 31 alumni, about 30% of them continuedon to graduate school and 65% obtained a job after UHH. From those with jobs 55% are in public institutions(observatories, planetaria, state universities). Compared to the national statistics shown in Table 10, UHH isdifferent in that most students do not continue on to graduate school but instead seek jobs in related fields andsecure them in public institutions.

Table 10: Bachelor’s Degrees 1 Year Later§

Number Employment (44%) Number Graduate School (56%)

1210 Private Sector 1890 Physics & Astronomy280 College & University 630 Engineering240 High School Teaching 320 Other Science & Math160 Active Military 140 Medicine & Law130 Government 140 Education160 Other 100 Other340 Unemployment, seeking

§ Source: AIP survey of 5,760 physics bachelor degrees conferred in 2007and 2008

Comparison With Other Programs: Academics

Physics and Astronomy: Compared to other US physics and astronomy programs in public and private institu-tions, UHH’s programs are similar in the number of credits and courses required. The astronomy degree has afew more credits since it is a specialized branch of physics and has a few more dependencies: 200 and 300-levelphysics, math, and computer science courses are requirements of upper division electives. For example, ASTR350 (Stellar Astrophysics) requires PHYS 270 (Introduction to Modern Physics) as a pre-req and PHYS 341(Thermodynamics) as a co-requirement. Another point of contrast are laboratory experiences. UHH requiresfour astronomy labs, two physics labs, and one physics-astronomy lab (ASTR/PHYS 260L). The number of labsdiffers from program to program but usually physics has three labs for the first three physics courses.

The physics degree requires 72 credits of courses in physics, mathematics and electives (PHYS elective). Physicsprograms are fundamentally similar across the nation with variations when different tracks are offered (e.g.astronomy, computer science, engineering, etc.). Stark differences between programs lie in the availability anddiversity of upper division laboratories. Small universities do not have enough resources to develop and maintainphysics laboratories and not surprisingly UHH falls in that category. Although the department has acquired asuite of modern physics and optics experiments insufficient resources and faculty have prevented a full developmentof upper division laboratories. To a lesser degree, physics programs differ in the variety of upper division electivesoffered. At UHH the astronomy courses provide a good range of electives to the physics degree.

The astronomy degree requires 74 credits of astronomy, physics, mathematics and electives (ASTR and PHYSelective). Compared to other national astronomy programs, the required courses and credits are similar to theUHH program in that all require three years of mathematics courses starting from first semester of freshman andphysics courses starting from the first or second semester of freshman until graduation. Differences among allprograms lie in whether astronomy can be declared, either having passed a certain number of mathematics andphysics courses or without requirement; set courses of upper division physics electives (e.g. Classical Mechanics,Electricity & Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics); and upper division physics laboratory courses. In general mostastronomy programs are a physics program with astronomy courses required almost every semester starting inthe second year. The program at UHH is slightly different in that there are astronomy courses every semesterand from the eight astronomy courses five have laboratory components. These laboratory courses accompany thelectures in astronomy to build expertise in data acquisition and statistical analysis, and handling of hardware andsoftware. Students are required to handle small 6”-Cassegrain-Schmidt telescopes on Alt-AZ mounts and simple

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CCD cameras in the first year, 9”.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes on German equatorial mounts, cameras, andspectrographs in the second year, and prepare for and carry out observing runs using large telescopes in theirthird or fourth year. Students who intend to go into graduate school or seek technical jobs are advised to engagein research with faculty or astronomers from the community using Maunakea telescopes from 2.2m apertures to8-10m to learn how to prepare, observe, and process the data from state-of-the-art telescopes and instruments aspart of a project.

It is important to point out the synergy that exists between the astronomy and physics programs at UHH. Mostinstitutions that offer astronomy do so as a track in the physics program housed in a strong physics departmentusually offering graduate degrees in physics or astronomy. Usually these departments have a few astronomyfaculty that augment their physics program. UHH is different in that most of the faculty are astronomers whoteach physics and astronomy courses and most of our students graduate with a double major in astronomy andphysics. Since 2011, 38 students graduated from our two programs and 55% of them graduated with the twodegrees. In general, UHH graduates more astronomy majors than physics majors. Since spring of 2011, UHHhas awarded 35 degrees in astronomy and 24 in physics. Of these, three students graduated only with a physicsdegree (no astronomy degree) and ten graduated only with an astronomy degree (no physics degree).

Service Courses

Physics Required Courses in Other Majors: The department offers a number of physics courses required for othermajors in the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Management (CAFNRM) and College ofArts and Sciences (CAS) Division of Natural Sciences. In addition to the B.A. in Physics, physics courses arerequired in six B.S. degrees, six B.A. degrees, two certificates and one two-year program (pre-Engineering) asshown on Table 11. The courses that are required for other majors are PHYS 106 (College Physics I), PHYS170 (General Physics I: Mechanics), PHYS 107 (College Physics II), PHYS 171 (General Physics II: Electricity& Magnetism) and their accompanying labs (PHYS 170L and PHYS 171L). Currently, the lab for PHYS 106 isPHYS 170L and that of PHYS 107 is PHYS 171L but this will change in Fall 2017 when the new labs PHYS 106Land PHYS 107L will be offered allowing for more statistical and error analysis in PHYS 170L and PHYS 171L. Inaddition to these freshman courses, a few majors also require 200 and 300 level physics courses as electives or arestrongly recommended for students interested in graduate school (e.g. B.S. in Geology). By far the astronomyprogram hinges completely on the physics courses and to a large extent, the program itself. Service courses arelisted in Table 11.

The calculus-based physics sequence, PHYS 170 and PHYS 171, is a requirement for degrees in the physicalsciences and engineering. In general, academic programs such as Marine Science, Biology, or pre-Medicine 23

require a one-year algebra-based physics course. In contrast, at UHH these programs require calculus-basedphysics at the level of Halliday & Resnick. However, this has proven to be somewhat detrimental to the physicsand astronomy majors. Non-majors, many who have never taken a physics course before, are taking this freshmancourse in their senior year, are not passing or are passing with a low grade. This course has earned the reputationof being hard for atypical reasons. Majors take this course in their freshman year and are having a hard timesecuring a seat since seniors have first priority to enroll in classes. Further, the stakes are high for non-majorswho need to pass this course or they can not graduate at the end of the semester. Non-majors are particularlystressed to pass this course. To ameliorate the frustration of majors and non-majors, the department has askedthe Biology and Marine Science Chairs to advise their students to take physics in the second and has also reachedout to discuss the need for a calculus-based physics course. The Biology Department now requires the algebrabased physics sequence (PHYS 106/107) and will also accept the calculus-based one if the student so prefers.However, the Marine Science Department rejected that idea arguing that they offer a Marine Science and not

23For instance: B.S. Biology and B.S. Marine Biology at University of Hawai’i Manoa (http://http://manoa.hawaii.edu/biology/);B.S. Marine Science at California State University Monterey Bay (https://csumb.edu/naturalsciences/marine-science-bs#required-courses); Pre-Med at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill http://advising.unc.edu/files/2014/05/Pre-Med-2014.pdf

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Marine Biology degree. Unfortunately, this requires that instructors spend a larger proportion of lecture time withconceptual ideas and exams are perceived to be harder because of the lack of training in physics and mathematics.This situation deteriorates further in PHYS 171 (Electricity & Magnetism) when multiple-integrals and vectorcalculus are required.

Physics and Astronomy General Education Courses: In addition to providing the necessary required courses forseveral majors in CAS and CAFNRM, the physics program also provides courses that fulfill the GE Core Re-quirements of the undergraduate program at UHH. Currently UHH requires 37 credits of GE and IntegrativeRequirements for the baccalaureate degree. Among other GE requirements, the baccalaureate degree at UHHrequires seven credits of Natural Science Electives with one of these credits taken as an associated laboratory(Table 2). The department has offered PHYS 110 (Physics of Contemporary Issues - 3 credits) and PHYS 115(Physics for Liberal Arts - 3 credits) however these courses are not offered regularly and when offered they usuallydraw few students and tend to be cancelled due to low enrollments, i.e. less than 10 students. As recent as 2015,the department has requested that PHYS 106, PHYS 107, PHYS 170, PHYS 171, PHYS 170L, and PHYS 171Lbe certified as GE courses that fulfill the Natural Science with laboratory requirements. This is an importantaddition since many of the physics, astronomy, and computer science majors had to take courses in other disci-plines to fulfill this particular GE requirement even though their course work already required several NaturalScience courses with labs. The department expects that this will help students navigate more easily through theGE requirements.

The main service courses in Astronomy are ASTR 110 (General Astronomy), ASTR 110L (General AstronomyLab), ASTR 150 (Life in the Universe), and ASTR 180 (Principles of Astronomy I). They are currently all certifiedas GE courses by the university and especially ASTR 110 continue to be the one course taken by most non-majors.A few students taking these lectures also take the lab (ASTR 110L). The Department has also requested thatASTR 150 and ASTR 180 be certified with the lab when ASTR 110L is also taken to allow students to fulfillthe lecture and lab requirement of the Natural Science GE but the numbering usually confuses students and thesystem thus few students enrolled in these courses enroll in the lab. To address this situation, the department isconsidering building new courses to accompany them, i.e. ASTR 150L and ASTR 180L.

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Table 11: PHYS Courses Required In Degrees Other Than The B.A. in Physics

College Degree 106 170 170L 107 171 171L Other

CAFNRM

Energy Science§,‡X X X X

341¶,†X X X X

B.S. Agriculture1 X X X X

CAS

B.S. Astronomy X X X X see Tables 3,4

B.A. Biology‡X X X X

X X X X

B.S. Biology2 X X X X

B.A. Chemistry X X X X

B.A. Chemistry Bioscience‡X X X X

X X X X

B.S. Computer Science X X X X

Pre-Engineering X X X X

B.A. Geology X X X X

B.S. Geology X X X X 260¶,†

B.A. Marine Science X X X X

B.S. Marine Science X X X X

STEM Research Honors§ 270, 331†

B.A. Natural Science‡X X X X

X X X X1

B.S. in Agriculture Specialities: Animal Science and Aquaculture2

B.S. in Biology Cell, Molecular & Biomedical Sciences Track and Ecology, Evolution, and ConservationTrack

§Certificate

†PHYS 260: Computational Physics and Astronomy (3 credits); PHYS 270: Introduction to ModernPhysics (3 credits); PHYS 341: Thermodynamics (3 credits); PHYS 331: Optics (3 credits)

‡Degree requirements are fulfilled if student passes either PHYS 106 or PHYS 170 and either PHYS 107or PHYS 171.

¶Elective or advised for continuation into graduate school

B.A. in Natural Science: The tracks of Earth Science and Physics in the B.A. in Natural Science degree requirea set of physics and astronomy courses ranging from freshman to junior level. The requirements for these degreescall for 74-77 credits of math, physics, biology, chemistry, and astronomy. The Earth Science Track is a 74-77credit program that requires the following courses in physics: PHYS 170, PHYS 170L, PHYS 171 and PHYS171, or PHYS 106, PHYS 170L, PHYS 107, and PHYS 171L, and PHYS 170L , or PHYS 171. This program ismanaged under the Geology Department.

Table 12: ASTR & PHYS Courses in the B.A. in Natural Science Degree Program

Track Required Track Required

Earth Science

PHYS 170 or PHYS 106

Physics

PHYS 170

PHYS 170L PHYS 170L

PHYS 171 or PHYS 107 PHYS 171

PHYS 171L PHYS 171L

ASTR 180 PHYS 270

ASTR 181 PHYS 371

ASTR 110L PHYS 211 or PHYS 230

PHYS 330, PHYS 331, PHYS 341, or PHYS 360

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Curricula Changes

Our programs have been under scrutiny by the administration for two reasons: (i) the number of physics graduatesis considered small by the administration (see Table 1) and (ii) there are too many low-enrolled courses inastronomy and physics at the upper division compared to other science programs at UHH. It is not obvious whythere is a decrease in graduates and student enrollments but the department acknowledges that there is a retentionproblem. Nevertheless, the department members identified problem areas, discussed various possible strategiesto address these, and adopted a number of modifications in the curricula and in course scheduling. During theacademic years of 2012 through 2015 the astronomy and physics programs have been modified to provide trainingin practical skills that we have identified as important across disciplines. These are computer literacy, hands-onexperiences in experimental astronomy and physics, and tasks involving open-ended problem solving.

New Vision:

A) Computer literacy: The two degree programs offered by the Department of Physics and Astronomy weremodified to require ASTR/PHYS 260 (a cross-listed course) entitled Computational Physics and Astronomy.This course takes advantage of our computer lab, a dedicated room with 12 stations running linux with a widevariety of programming languages and professional astronomy software. The objective of this course is totrain students to solve physics and astronomy problems in programming languages such as Python, C++, C(gcc), Fortran, IDL, etc. Examples of problems that are tackled are the real pendulum, the orbit of Mercurywhen including GR effects, electric potentials of complex charge arrays, etc. ASTR/PHYS 260 requirementswere changed to include CS 150 (Introduction to Computer Science) as a pre-requisite. More recently, theDepartment added a laboratory component to this course (ASTR/PHYS 260L) to allow students time tolearn good coding strategies, debugging, and visualization of data in a hands-on environment. The mainstrategy has been to deliver a lecture in ASTR/PHYS 260 that motivates the use of numerical methods inastronomy and physics and use the laboratory sessions to allow students to work on problems in pair-codingor debugging sessions.

B) Upper Division Astronomy Laboratories: The department has recently developed two new juniorlevel courses ASTR 350L and ASTR 351L that accompany ASTR 350 (Stellar Astrophysics) and ASTR 351(Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy), respectively. These laboratory courses are aimed at developing thenecessary skills to learn how to observe various astronomical sources. ASTR 350L focuses on observations ofstellar sources in imaging and spectroscopic mode. Analysis of these data will allow them to extract scien-tifically meaningful properties such as calibrated flux, colors, proper motions, equivalent widths, extinction,etc. ASTR 351L focuses on observations of extended sources also in imaging and spectroscopic mode. Thescience products students are expected to study are color terms, redshifts, emission line ratios, extinction,source sizes, etc. Using the guaranteed time on various Maunakea telescopes under the agreement with theUH system, students will be able to design their observations, carry them out and extract the necessarydata.

C) Upper Division Physics Laboratories: Three laboratory courses at the sophomore and junior levelhave been offered in the last five years. A modern physics lab course has been taught twice to accompanythe course Introduction to Modern Physics (PHYS 270) as special topics courses and an Optics Lab toaccompany Optics (PHYS 331). The objective is to support the material presented in the lecture coursesand to promote the experimental side of physics.

D) Recitation Sessions: The calculus-based physics courses (PHYS 170 and PHYS 171) are four-creditcourses which have been modified in numerous ways over the last ca. ten years. Until 2015, they weretaught five times a week in lectures of 50 minutes each. The following modifications were done:

• Majors and Non-Majors: The courses were divided into sections for majors (PHYS 172 and PHYS 173)and non-majors (PHYS 170 and PHYS 171) where the material taught was exactly the same but the

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emphasis in the majors sections was on problems in pure physics and astrophysics whereas in PHYS170/171, the emphasis was on biology and marine science examples. The motivation was to develop acommunity of physicists and astronomers in the major’s section. To conform with the requirements ofthe college and our programs, the PHYS 170/171 sequence was taught Fall/Spring and PHYS 172/173Spring/Fall. Majors falling behind were taking the non-majors course and vice-versa which did notallow this model to reach its full potential.

• Pre- and Co-requisites: Up until the 2005/2006 academic year, Calculus I (MATH 205) was pre- orco-requisite to PHYS 170. From the 2006-2007 academic year until 2010-11, MATH 205 became apre-requirement along with a math placement exam. Until 2014-15, the laboratory course PHYS 170Lwas a pre-req for the second semester physics (PHYS 171) but it was dropped in 2014-15. The changesin pre- and co-reqs do not seem to have affected the performance of students in the upper divisioncourses.

• Scheduling: For a number of years, the five-times a week class schedule became hard to schedule inprime hours and was slated to an 8 AM schedule to avoid schedule conflicts with other departments.The department noticed that a large number of students were regularly skipping class or arrivinglate. Since Spring 2015, problem solving sessions have been decoupled from the lectures to allow adifferent time slot while still delivering the 4.5-contact-hours per week. Both courses are now regularlyscheduled three times a week in lectures of 50 min and a 75-min recitation session in the afternoons(Thursday for PHYS 171 or Friday for PHYS 170). The weekly schedule of MWF 9:00-9:50 AM andthe recitation sessions has been frozen to help other departments schedules around this service course.Each recitation session accommodates up to 20 students and is taught by faculty or senior physicsmajors.

In addition to these overall modifications, the following course and academic program changes have been imple-mented in the last five years. Those identified with an asterisk (*) have been proposed and, if approved, will beimplemented starting Fall 2017.

New Vision Implementation: Course Modifications and New Courses:

A) ASTR 350 - Stellar Astrophysics - is the first required course in the program that draws elements fromhigh level mathematics, physics and astronomy. Students tended to do poorly partly because of the lack offamiliarity with concepts of thermodynamics. The pre-requirements of ASTR 350 were changed to includePHYS 341 (Thermodynamics), ASTR 250 (Observational Astronomy), and ASTR 260 (ComputationalPhysics and Astronomy).

B) ASTR/PHYS 260 - Computational Physics and Astronomy - is the first required course in the programwhere students encounter real physics and astronomy problems that can not be solved analytically but onlynumerically. To increase the success in this course, its pre-requirements now include CS 150 (Introductionto Computer Science) and the course itself has a lab component (ASTR/PHYS 260L).

C) Electromagnetism (PHYS 330) and Quantum Mechanics I (PHYS 430) - are required courses in the physicsprogram but electives in the astronomy program. Quantum Mechanics I used to be 3 credits but waschanged in 2008-09 to a 4 credit course to include more material. Electromagnetism was also changed to bea 4 credit course in 2010-11. Astronomy students were not enrolling in these two courses partly because theywere not able to fit one or two four-credit courses into their 4th-year. In Fall 2016, the Department decreasedthe number of credits from four to three of both these courses to increase enrollments by astronomy majors,to align our program with other institutions, and offer a realistic opportunity to astronomy majors to takeupper division courses in EM and QM.

D) *PHYS 430 pre-requisites were changed to include MATH 311 (Linear Algebra). They currently are Intro-duction to Modern Physics (PHYS 270) and Ordinary Differential Equations (MATH 300).

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E) *PHYS 106L and PHYS 107L - currently the algebra-based physics courses cater mostly to non-majors andshare the same laboratory courses as those taking calculus-based physics. To provide better support tomajors and non-majors, and to align with the UH system physics lectures and lab courses, this modificationhas been proposed and, if approved, should be implemented by Fall 2017. The laboratory experiments willbe exactly the same as in PHYS 170L/PHYS 171L but the error analysis and theoretical background willbe emphasized differently. This separation will also allow PHYS 170L and 171L to be writing intensive asthe discussion sections in the reports of the calculus-based course can be expanded to include open-endedinquiries.

F) We are the third department at UHH after Mathematics and Chemistry to align the course numbers withthat of the UH-system in order to ease the transfer of students from other UH campuses24. The numberof transfers from mainland colleges is significant in astronomy and with this alignment the departmenthopes that more in-state students transfer to physics and astronomy. The department aligned the followingcourses and created the accompanying labs for the algebra-based lectures (PHYS 106/107):

• PHYS 106/L → PHYS 151/L



• PHYS 270 → PHYS 274.

New Vision Implementation: Astronomy Program changes:

A) CHEM 161+L - General Chemistry and Lab, are now required courses in the astronomy program. Achemistry approach to the electronic transitions detected in the optical and NIR spectrum of astronomicalsources is beneficial to a solid understanding of the chemical makeup of distant objects. More recently,studies of Solar System bodies with varying compositions require a solid understanding of chemistry.

B) ASTR 250L - Observational Astronomy Lab - has been a course regularly offered by the Department butwas not a requirement for the major. Given the shift to a program with more experimental opportunities,the program now requires this course. Using newly acquired 9” Celestron telescopes and state-of-the-art cameras, with a large investment in time to develop laboratory experiences, this course is the firstopportunity students have to obtain deep images of faint and extended sources.

C) PHYS 371 & PHYS 341: Classical Mechanics (PHYS 371) used to be a required course for the major.However, students were underperforming in stellar astrophysics especially in topics of thermal physics.Thus we making Thermodynamics (PHYS 341) required while making Classical Mechanics an elective.

D) ASTR 350L: A lab course that accompanies Stellar Astrophysics (ASTR 350) will be required startingFall 2017. This course will train students in topics of astrometry and fundamental stellar photometry andspectroscopy. It will include observations of stellar orbits in close binaries to determine their mass, one ofthe most fundamental parameter in stellar structure; parallax with one epoch obtained previously or fromexisting databases; observations of stellar fluxes in globular and open clusters to determine colors of starsand generate color-magnitude diagrams; observations of stellar spectra to measure chemical abundances andstellar parallaxes. Students will further continue their training in the use of telescopes, imaging camerasand spectrographs.

E) ASTR 351L: Similar to ASTR 350L that accompanies Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics (ASTR 351)also required starting Fall 2017. Having had training with the telescopes in ASTR 350L, the emphasisof this lab is on concepts of expansion of the Universe, gravitational potentials, interstellar extinction,

24UH Manoa, West O‘ahu, Hawai‘i Community College, Honolulu Community College, Kapi‘olani Community College, Kaua‘iCommunity College, Leeward Community College, Maui Community College

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spectroscopic line properties. Students will measure recessional velocities of field and cluster galaxies andproduce a Hubble Diagram; measure dispersion velocities in cluster galaxies to determine their ensemblebaryonic mass; measure the Balmer Decrement to determine internal extinction in galaxies; measure AGNline and determine line profile shapes and kinematical properties of AGN disks.

New Vision Implementation: Physics Program changes:

A) PHYS 260+L - are now required courses for the major. The emphasis of this course is to train physicsmajors in numerical methods while providing them with training in computer programming relevant totheir program. The lack of any computer literacy in the physics program will better prepare students toengage in research and to acquire transferrable skills in a tight market for physics bachelors.

B) MATH 311 - Linear Algebra - has been added as a required course for the major to better prepare studentsto handle Quantum Mechanics I.

Future Courses:

In addition to ASTR/PHYS 260L (Computational Physics and Astronomy Lab), ASTR 350L (Stellar AstrophysicsLab), and ASTR 351L (Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy Lab), the following courses have been submittedto the Curriculum Review Committee and have been approved as of February 2017. They will be included in thecourse catalog starting Fall 2017. These courses were developed to provide opportunities for students to fulfilltheir electives, some unique to our campus next to arguably the best observatory site in the world.

A) ASTR 385: “Software Systems for Astronomy” is a course that brings together concepts of spherical as-trometry, computer programming, and web interfaces to operate observatories as a whole, i.e. telescope,dome, scheduling, weather, data reduction and dissemination. It was originally developed by a computerscientist working at the Keck Observatories on Maunakea and read at UHH as a special topics course intwo consecutive summer sessions.

B) ASTR 381: “Cosmos and Culture” explores the intersections of the historical, intellectual, social, and cul-tural context of Astronomy through investigations of selected topics in Cultural Astronomy, the Philosophyof Science, the History of Astronomy, Sociology of Science, Hawaiian Studies, Cultural Studies, and/orother fields. The intend is that this course provides a better understanding of the place of Astronomy in amulti-cultural society.

Course Scheduling

Over the course of many years, the Physics and Astronomy faculty have discussed ways to improve the deliveryof material in physics and astronomy courses to increase students’ learning, student retention and graduationrates, and placement of jobs and graduate school acceptance of UHH graduates. The faculty also researched andcompared our program nationwide and concluded the following:

A) PHYS 170/171: These courses used to be taught 5 times a week and could only be fit at 8am to avoidconflicts with other courses. Through student surveys and attendance trends, the faculty found that thiscadence and early schedule was not conducive to a productive learning process especially when consideringstudents in the age range of 18-20 years25. In addition, these courses require that students learn how tosolve problems. Before implementing the recitation sessions, the instructor would pepper problems withthe lectures. This ought to work well however junior and senior majors underperform in astronomy and

25http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/115/6/1555?ck=nck

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physics exams usually lacking the skills to approach problems. The problem solving or recitation sessionwere identified as a time to provide more training. They have been decoupled from the lectures in thatdifferent faculty and senior students lead them and are taught in different blocks of times in the afternoons.The lectures are taught three or twice a week for a total of 150 min (3 credits) by the instructor of recordwhile the recitation sessions are held in sessions of 75 min (1.5 credit) once a week. This change in deliverychanged the schedule and allowed them to be moved to later in the day which increased attendance. Howeverrecitation sessions are not common at UHH and thus students are slowly making use of these sessions. Somestudents have commented that they would not be able to pass this course without the recitations.

B) Schedule conflicts with other departments, notably Mathematics, Computer Science and Chemistry infreshman courses. To avoid these, the Department Chair consults with the other chairs and iterates onthe schedule. Although simple, this was not the way the course schedules were handled which resulted invarious astronomy and physics majors facing time conflicts with ASTR 350/ASTR 351 and Calc III (MATH231) and Calc IV (MATH 232). In the last three years, there have not been any schedule conflicts. OurDepartment has agreed to freeze the schedules of PHYS 106, 107, 170 and 171 so that other departmentscan work around these times.

C) ASTR 110L, the General Astronomy Lab, used to be taught during the day and inside the lab room. Withthe purchase of 6” Celestron telescopes, the Department now offers these in the evenings from 5-8pm. Themain driver is to allow majors and non-majors time to grapple with simple ideas and equipment. Thecourse culminates with a voluntary trip to the Onizuka Visitor Center where we set up the 6” telescopesand observer mostly planetary objects. The Visitor Center is an orientation center at 9,000 feet elevationon the way to the mountain of Maunakea.

D) ASTR 250L is a lab required for the astronomy major, minor and Natural Science degrees. Students usethe newly purchased 9” Celestron telescopes and acquire images of objects that require longer exposures,better tracking and image quality. This course begins with the observations and culminates with a datareduction to extract data science products from the observations. The course has three-four mandatoryfield trips scheduled to the mid-level point of Maunakea in the middle of the semester.

The Department generated a five-year course schedule presented in Tables 13 and 14. Starting Fall 2017, weexpect to have the schedule streamlined and expect that the administration will allow us to offer low-enrolledcourses so that students can graduate on a timely manner.

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Tab

le13:

Fiv

eY

ear

Pla

n:

Ast

ron

om

yC

ou

rses

ASTR

Title

F2016

S2017

F2017

S2018

F2018

S2019

F2019

S2020

F2020

S2021

110

Genera

lA

stro

nom

y110

110

110

110

110

110

110L

Genera

lA

stro

nom

yL

ab

110L

110L

110L

110L

110L

110L

110L

110L

110L

110L

150

Lif

ein

the

Univ

ers

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150

150

150

150

180

Pri

ncip

les

of

Ast

ronom

yI

180

180

180

180

180

181

Pri

ncip

les

of

Ast

ronom

yII

181

181

181

181

181

250

Obse

rvati

onal

Ast

ronom

y250

250

250

250

250

250L

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250L

250L

250L

250L

250L

260§

Com

p.

Phys

&A

str

260

260

260

260

260

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p.

Phys

&A

str

Lab

260L

260L

260L

260L

260L

275‡

Akam

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350

Ste

llar

Ast

rophysi

cs

399

350

350

350L

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Tab

le14:

Fiv

eY

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Pla

n:

Physi

csC

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PH

YS

Title

F2016

S2017

F2017

S2018

F2018

S2019

F2019

S2020

F2020

S2021

106

College

Physi

cs

I106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

106

107

College

Physi

cs

II107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

107

170

Genera

lP

hysi

cs

I170

170

170

170

170

170

170

170

170

170

170L

Genera

lP

hysi

cs

IL

ab

170L

170L

170L

170L

170L

170L

170L

171

Genera

lP

hysi

cs

II171

171

171

171

171

171

171

171

171

171

171L

Genera

lP

hysi

cs

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171L

171L

171L

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str

260

260

260

260

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p.

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str

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260L

260L

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270

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270

270

270

270

270

330

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ctr

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sm330

330

330

331

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cs

331

331

331

331

331

341

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341

341

341

341

341

360

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ati

cal

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cs

371

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ssic

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371

371

380

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On Tables 15 and 16, we present the historical enrollments in all astronomy and physics courses excluding directedstudies and special topics courses. The most popular course in astronomy is ASTR 110 - General Astronomy.The enrollments have decreased in this course since Fall 2012. This coincides with the semester in which theUniversity implemented the pre-builts, i.e. students were given preassigned courses in their freshman year andASTR 110 was not in the prebuilt list. While the course used to be quite popular as the enrollments numbersshow, this is no longer the case.

The Department also teaches courses in the two summer sessions, a short six-week and a nine-week session. Theyinclude general education courses such as ASTR 110, ASTR 150, directed studies (course numbers ending in 99),experimental courses (ending in 98) and special topics courses (ending in 94). From the special topics courses,two are perhaps worth mentioning: the Software Systems for Astronomy (currently approved as a catalog courseas ASTR 385) and the Akamai Course, both approved by the curriculum committee as ASTR 385 and ASTR 375,respectively. ASTR 385 was developed and has been taught by Dr. Al Conrad, a former support astronomer atthe Keck Observatories and currently at the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona, and ASTR 375was developed as part of the Akamai Internship Program ran by the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators(ISEE) at the University of California Santa Cruz. The historical enrollments for summer sessions are shown onTable 17.

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Tab

le15:

His

tori

cal

En

roll

men

ts:

Ast

ron

om

yC

ou

rses

†

2004-

2005

2005-

2006

2006-

2007

2007-

2008

2008-

2009

2009-

2010

2010-

2011

2011-

2012

2012-

2013

2013-

2014

2014-

2015

2015-

2016

2016-

2017

AST

RS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS

FS§

110

77

992

952

1002

922

55

972

912

813

732

963

982

482

1152

953

783

652

702

692

51

632

42

15

34

36

110L

242

15

282

152

16

252

282

423

12

222

312

534

272

634

473

302

443

264

150

17

26

20

20

37

10

180

422

522

492

34

32

322

35

57

41

38

14

39

823

181

27

16

19

17

17

20

21

26

18

23

21

9

250

11

23

17

12

10

17

14

710

75

250L

11

23

17

10

10

711

712

3

260

22

36

10

98

260L

7

350

13

11

14

76

11

53

10

11

10

8

350L

4

351

14

14

12

68

511

512

82

351L

2

352

20

17

14

312

11

14

375

9

400

24

11

18

13

432

66

22

42

5

450

95

14

460

13

49

64

495A

81

18

69

142

20

715

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68

51

69

22

20

1

496

11

16

17

67

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superscrip

tnum

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inthe

num

ber

ofstudents

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represent

the

num

ber

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ns

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represent

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students

enrolled

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ns.

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as

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ber

30,2016

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Tab

le16:

His

tori

cal

En

roll

men

ts:

Physi

csC

ou

rses

†

2004-

2005

2005-

2006

2006-

2007

2007-

2008

2008-

2009

2009-

2010

2010-

2011

2011-

2012

2012-

2013

2013-

2014

2014-

2015

2015-

2016

2016-

2017

PH

YS

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

SF

S§

106

1023

33

662

33

662

53

50

38

592

38

39

50

55

58

65

60

60

47

56

49

30

24

36

33

107

742

692

12

462

21

47

22

25

19

25

15

29

10

23

41

39

20

35

18

33

14

17

919

170

32

703

25

502

282

37

17

36

18

50

17

56

20

58

43

58

40

50

50

812

65

81

42

624

402

170L

15110

1169

574

815

554

684

514

905

494

865

604

1066

824

1156

784

784

1025

1117

916

513

915

664

171

582

24

462

19

24

202

30

10

29

14

39

14

39

12

48

16

51

22

38

23

61

14

672

392

414

171L

1278

1076

724

423

544

384

474

243

724

404

625

384

714

574

764

605

403

643

433

674

392

635

260

19

14

610

98

260L

7

270

119

19

19

10

13

87

13

19

11

410

330

12

15

10

87

911

48

11

86

331

16

19

22

87

10

19

12

13

11

8

341

19

913

75

15

56

11

11

10

360

720

371

24

17

20

910

11

77

812

6

380

14

12

68

430

88

95

410

79

10

10

431

73

3

432

41

11

495A

916

22

16

18

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17

91

110

81

496

1

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superscrip

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bers

inthe

num

ber

ofstudents

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num

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ns

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represent

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as

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30,2016

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Table 17: Historical Enrollments: Astronomy and Physics Summer Courses

ASTR 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017†

110 20(NP)

14(NP)

10(MT)

6(NP)

23(JH§)

18(JH§)

12(JH§)

(JH)

110L 18((NP)

11(PB)

12(Lec)

8(Lec)

(MR)

150 11(JH§)

14(CA§)

20(JH§)

9(JH§)

11(JH§)

6(JH§)

10(JH§)

(JH)

294 38(DH)

30(DH)

22(DH)

29(JS)

299 1(SL)

352 JH

394 4(WH)

7(AC)

(AC)

398 11(AC)

398L 9(AC)

398 7(MT)

499 (RC)

PHYS 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017†

106 7(LA§)

8(LA§)

14(CA)

18(CA)

16(CA)

9(MR)

(MR)

106L (MR)

107 12(CA)

21(CA)

115 9(PB)

14(JH§)

9(JH§)

8(LA§)

9(JH§)

119 2(PB)

170 7(DO)

170L 12(MR)

(MR)

399 2(PB)

1(NP)

1(PB)

§ OnlineInstructors: NP: Norman Purves; MT: Marianne Takamiya, JH: John Hamilton; RC: Richard Crowe; PB: Philippe Binder; MR: MarcRoberts; CA: Christian Andersen; SL: Shawn Laatsch; WH: William Hartman; AC: Albert Conrad; LA: Lawrence Armendarez; DO:Daniel O’Connor; DH: David Harrington (Akamai); JS: Jerome Shaw (Akamai)† Planned

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Outreach

The faculty engage in outreach events throughout the year. The goals of these efforts are to promote scienceamong the public, especially the youth, and to increase enrollments in physics and astronomy at UHH. Althoughthe department does not have budgetary or staffing resources to dedicate to these efforts, the administrationexpects that departments attracts students. For instance, the administration encourages us to provide coursesfor high school students from Kamehameha Schools online or in the summer, participate in Science Fair asjudges and develop material for Science Olympiads, and hosts talks to high school students. Our departmenthas engaged in these activities regularly but also participates in astronomy related events coordinated by thelarger Hawaii-based astronomy researchers and staff from the observatories. These events start with OnizukaDay aimed at students in grades 4-12, teachers and parents, Journey Through The Universe (JTTU) aimed atK-12 students, ’Imiloa Birthday, Merrie Monarch Day Parade, Astro Day aimed at the public, Maunakea SkiesTalk, The Universe Tonight at the Maunakea Visitor Information Station, Maunakea Series Talks at ’Imiloa, (seeTable 18) in addition to public talks from the faculty on astronomy or physics state-wide.

Table 18: Outreach Activities

Date Event Location Duration

January Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Science Day (since 2001) UH Hilo Campus All day

February/March Journey Into The Universe (since 2004) All Hilo K-12 schools One week

February ‘Imiloa Birthday (since 2006) ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center All day

March/April Merrie Monarch Parade City of Hilo All day

April/May Astro Day (since 2001) Prince Kuhio Plaza All day

Once a year The Universe Tonight Maunakea Visitor Information Center Evening

Once a year Maunakea Skies Talks ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center Evening

Support of New Academic Programs

Our Department has committed to support two new academic programs: B.S. in Neuroscience and B.S. inAeronautical Science when they deploy. The faculty spearheading these efforts expect that each year 12 studentsenrolled in the Neuroscience program will take PHYS 106 and PHYS 107 and their labs enrolled and 20 studentsenrolled in the Aeronautical program will take PHYS 106 and its lab. The Department can easily accommodatean additional 32 students in PHYS 106 and 20 students in PHYS 107 but the number of seats in the labs maybe more challenging to meet now that the number of faculty has decreased since we last committed to supportthese programs.

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V. Evidence of Program Quality

Quantitative Data and Tables were prepared by the UHH Institutional Research Office26 and are presented onpages 31 trough 33 for the physics and 34 through 36 for the astronomy programs. Over the last ten years,the average number of majors in physics and astronomy are 14.5 and 41.8, and degrees granted are 3.7 and 7.6,respectively.

Table 19: Majors and Degrees†

Program Majors Degrees

B.A. Physics 14.5 3.7

B.S. Astronomy 41.8 7.6

Total 56.3 11.3

†10 year : AY2005-06 to AY 2014-15

The cost of running each program is hard to tease out as astronomy faculty teach physics and instructors teachboth physics and astronomy. The range of courses that astronomy faculty teach is wider at UHH than at otherUH campuses and at most universities. The versatility of the astronomy faculty to teach any astronomy or physicscourse does not have a straightforward cost but it translates in finding and keeping capable faculty willing andable to teach physics and astronomy courses. With this caveat, the average cost of FTE27 per student semesterhours (SSH28) is $192.28 for the physics program and $173.07 for the astronomy program.

In recent years as college enrollments at UH decreased, the administration asked us to be more fiscally responsibleand concentrate on service courses over majors courses. Our department reacted to that request by decreasing thenumber of sections in PHYS 170 and ASTR 110 while increasing the number of seats in each section. To maintainthe quality of instruction in PHYS 170, a critical course for majors and non-majors, the model with recitationsessions was deployed which also provides a reduction in cost. For instance, instead of offering two sections ofPHYS 170 at a cost of 9 teaching credits for 60 seats, it costs the administration 7.5 teaching credits when threesections are offered where the lectures are held for all 60 students but the problem-solving sessions are split intothree sections of 20 seats each. The lecture costs 3 teaching credits for 60 seats and the recitation sessions, 1.5teaching credits each. In certain semesters, the department has hired senior physics students to lead one of therecitation sessions whereby the student gains teaching experience and gets a salary from Federal Work Studies(FWS) or the Natural Science Division B-budget, or receives credit as a directed studies class. This model hasalso decreased the teaching cost in our department.

In 2010, the UHH Faculty Congress passed a motion to develop pre-built schedules for incoming freshman. Theywere implemented campus wide by AY 2014. Before the pre-built schedules, General Astronomy (ASTR 110)used to be very popular course among freshman students and usually offered in two sections. However after thefull implementation of the pre-builts, the enrollments dropped dramatically as can be seen on Table 15. Beforethe pre-builts, the total enrollments ranged from 139 - 210 students per year (average of 168 students per year),while after they dropped to 57-114 students per year (average 80 students per year). The pre-builts have beendiscontinued since AY 2016 but its effect was still felt in ASTR 110 this academic year.

26https://www.hawaii.edu/iro/simsdef.php#studentsemesterhours27Full Time Equivalent28The sum of semester hours taken by all students registered in all credit courses

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1. Student Count Information (by Fall Semesters)

a. Number of Majors 1

11 14 14 16 19

b. Number of Minors 2

3 3 3 1 4

c. Number of Graduate Students N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

2. Annual Course Information (by Fall Semesters)

a. Student Semester Hours (SSH) Generated 696 728 850 744 863

b. Full Time Equivalent (FTE) 3

46 49 57 50 58

c. Percent of FTE of own Majors 4.7% 3.7% 3.6% 3.5% 4.9%

d. Percent of FTE of Majors within College 90.1% 90.5% 86.1% 87.6% 88.9%

e. Percent of FTE All Others 5.2% 5.8% 10.2% 8.9% 6.3%

f. Percent of FTE of Writing Intensive (WI) Courses 0.0% 0.0% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0%

g. Percent of FTE General Education (GE) Courses 4

0.0% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

3. Course Delivery (by Fall Semesters)

a. 16 17 22 20 23

b. Average class size - Distance Learning 5 7

0 0 0 0 0

c. Number of FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 8 10

1.08 2.00 1.42 1.75 1.67

d. Number of FTE Adjunct Faculty 9 10

1.92 1.17 1.33 1.00 1.08

e. % SH Taught by Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 36.1% 63.2% 51.5% 63.6% 60.6%

f. % SH Taught by Adjunct Faculty 63.9% 36.8% 48.5% 36.4% 39.4%

g. 15 15 21 18 21

4. Graduation and Placement (by Fiscal Year)

a. Number of graduates/degrees earned 12

6 6 2 3 3

b. Percent of Majors Graduating 13

54.5% 42.9% 14.3% 18.8% 15.8%

c. Number of Native Hawaiian graduates 0 1 0 0 0

d. Number of Certificates awarded 0 0 0 0 0

5. Cost of Delivery (by Fiscal Year)

a. Budgetary Allocations 14

$342,651 $318,621 $249,255 $259,816 $311,709

b. Cost per SSH 15

$226.77 $192.87 $143.58 $156.23 $166.16

Notes:

1/ Number of Majors = Number of 1st Declared Majors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared major.

2/ Number of Minors = Number of 1st Declared Minors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared minor.

3/ Undergraduate FTE Calculation = SSH/15. Graduate FTE Calculation = SSH/12.

4/ GE Course Listing from C.Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013"

5/ Excludes classes numbered -99 (individual instruction)

6/ Average Class Size Calculation = Number of Registrations/Number of Classes


8/ HR Datamart defines Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty as Instructor Grades: I3's, I4's, I5's and/or otherwise specified.

9/ Adjunct Faculty defined as Instructor Grades: I2's, LecA, LecB, and LecC and/or otherwise specified.

10/ Faculty FTE Calculation = SH Taught/12

11/ FTE Student-Faculty Ratio Calculation = Full Time Equivalent (FTE) / Total FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty & Adjunct Faculty

12/ Number of graduates/degrees earned includes dual degrees

13/ Percent of Majors Graduating Calculation = Number of graduates or degrees earned/Number of Majors

14/

15/ Cost per SSH Calculation = Budgetary Allocation/SSH Generated

Budgetary Allocation provided by R.Ivanova on 2014-05-20. Budget Allocations is not available by Program Level for the College of Arts and

Sciences. Presented here is an approximation of the salaries paid for the Fiscal Year. This total includes faculty members with paid leave. This

Sources: C. Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013; HR Datamart: "Faculty-Lecturer Listing 2005-2013";

IRO_BASE (Census); IRO_DEGREE (EOS); IRO_REGS (Census); IRO_SOCAD (Census); IRO_SOCALL (Census)

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*Adjusted Allocation*

Average class size - Brick and Mortar 5 6

FTE student-faculty ratio 11

(FTE course enrollment / FTE total faculty)

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2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-151. Student Count Information (by Fall Semesters)

a. Number of Majors 1 16 18 16 12 9 11 14 14 16 19b. Number of Minors 2 9 6 11 7 5 3 3 3 1 4c. Number of Graduate Students N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

2. Annual Course Information (by Fall Semesters)a. Student Semester Hours (SSH) Generated 1,033 873 801 639 688 696 728 850 744 863

i. Lower Division 929 776 615 526 604 588 637 787 656 780ii. Upper Division 104 97 186 113 84 108 91 63 88 83iii. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

b. Full Time Equivalent (FTE) 3 69 58 53 43 46 46 49 57 50 58i. Lower Division 62 52 41 35 40 39 42 52 44 52ii. Upper Division 7 6 12 8 6 7 6 4 6 6iii. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

c. Percent of FTE of own Majors 7.1% 7.3% 7.7% 8.0% 5.5% 4.7% 3.7% 3.6% 3.5% 4.9%i. SSH by Majors 73 64 62 51 38 33 27 31 26 42ii. FTE by Majors 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 3

d. Percent of FTE of Majors within College 85.7% 85.9% 88.3% 82.2% 87.4% 90.1% 90.5% 86.1% 87.6% 88.9%i. SSH by College 885 750 707 525 601 627 659 732 652 767ii. FTE by College 59 50 47 35 40 42 44 49 43 51

e. Percent of FTE All Others 8.7% 6.8% 4.0% 9.9% 6.7% 5.2% 5.8% 10.2% 8.9% 6.3%i. SSH by all others 90 59 32 63 46 36 42 87 66 54ii. FTE by all others 6 4 2 4 3 2 3 6 4 4

f. Percent of FTE of Writing Intensive (WI) Courses 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0%i. SSH by WI Courses 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 24 0 0ii. FTE by WI Courses 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0

g. Percent of FTE General Education (GE) Courses 4 3.8% 4.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%i. SSH by GE Courses 39 36 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0ii. FTE by GE Courses 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

3. Course Delivery (by Fall Semesters)a. 17 16 17 14 16 16 17 22 20 23

Lower Division 20 17 19 19 20 17 19 25 23 25Upper Division 7 10 12 5 6 12 9 7 8 12Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0i. Number of Registrations 415 362 328 262 284 296 332 373 304 344

1. Lower Division 379 313 267 224 256 260 285 352 279 3202. Upper Division 36 49 61 38 28 36 47 21 25 243. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ii. Number of Classes 24 23 19 19 18 18 20 17 15 151. Lower Division 19 18 14 12 13 15 15 14 12 132. Upper Division 5 5 5 7 5 3 5 3 3 23. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

b. Average class size - Distance Learning 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Lower Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Upper Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0i. Number of Registrations 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0



Total FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty & Adjunct Faculty 10 4.33 4.17 3.42 3.08 3.25 3.00 3.17 2.75 2.75 2.75Lower Division 3.42 3.25 2.42 1.83 2.08 2.25 2.25 2.00 1.83 2.17Upper Division 0.92 0.92 1.00 1.25 1.17 0.75 0.92 0.75 0.92 0.58Graduate Level 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

c. Number of FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 8 10 1.42 1.42 1.58 1.58 1.33 1.08 2.00 1.42 1.75 1.67i. Lower Division 0.50 0.67 0.58 0.58 0.25 0.58 1.08 0.67 0.83 1.08ii. Upper Division 0.92 0.75 1.00 1.00 1.08 0.50 0.92 0.75 0.92 0.58iii. Graduate Level 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

d. Number of FTE Adjunct Faculty 9 10 2.92 2.75 1.83 1.50 1.92 1.92 1.17 1.33 1.00 1.08i. Lower Division 2.92 2.58 1.83 1.25 1.83 1.67 1.17 1.33 1.00 1.08ii. Upper Division 0.00 0.17 0.00 0.25 0.08 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00iii. Graduate Level 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Total SH Taught 52 50 41 37 39 36 38 33 33 33Lower Division 41 39 29 22 25 27 27 24 22 26Upper Division 11 11 12 15 14 9 11 9 11 7Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

e. % SH Taught by Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 32.7% 34.0% 46.3% 51.4% 41.0% 36.1% 63.2% 51.5% 63.6% 60.6%i. SH Taught by Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 17 17 19 19 16 13 24 17 21 20


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2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15f. % SH Taught by Adjunct Faculty 67.3% 66.0% 53.7% 48.6% 59.0% 63.9% 36.8% 48.5% 36.4% 39.4%

i. SH Taught by Adjunct Faculty 35 33 22 18 23 23 14 16 12 131. Lower Division 35 31 22 15 22 20 14 16 12 132. Upper Division 0 2 0 3 1 3 0 0 0 03. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

g. 16 14 16 14 14 15 15 21 18 21i. Lower Division 18 16 17 19 19 17 19 26 24 24ii. Upper Division 8 7 12 6 5 10 7 6 6 9iii. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

4. Graduation and Placement (by Fiscal Year)a. Number of graduates/degrees earned 12 2 1 6 5 3 6 6 2 3 3b. Percent of Majors Graduating 13 12.5% 5.6% 37.5% 41.7% 33.3% 54.5% 42.9% 14.3% 18.8% 15.8%c. Number of Native Hawaiian graduates 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0d. Number of Certificates awarded 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

5. Cost of Delivery (by Fiscal Year)a. Budgetary Allocations 14 $231,051 $314,235 $329,347 $377,198 $273,218 $342,651 $318,621 $249,255 $259,816 $311,709

i. A-Budget $231,051 $314,235 $329,347 $377,198 $273,218 $342,651 $318,621 $249,255 $254,416 $306,309ii. B-Budget $5,400 $5,400

b. Cost per SSH 15 $123.49 $169.86 $215.97 $319.66 $208.25 $226.77 $192.87 $143.58 $156.23 $166.16i. SSH by Fiscal Year 1,871 1,850 1,525 1,180 1,312 1,511 1,652 1,736 1,663 1,876

Notes:1/ Number of Majors = Number of 1st Declared Majors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared major.2/ Number of Minors = Number of 1st Declared Minors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared minor.3/ Undergraduate FTE Calculation = SSH/15. Graduate FTE Calculation = SSH/12.4/ GE Course Listing from C.Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013"5/ Excludes classes numbered -99 (individual instruction)6/ Average Class Size Calculation = Number of Registrations/Number of Classes7/ Average Class Size Calculation = Number of Registrations/Number of Classes8/ HR Datamart defines Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty as Instructor Grades: I3's, I4's, I5's and/or otherwise specified.9/ Adjunct Faculty defined as Instructor Grades: I2's, LecA, LecB, and LecC and/or otherwise specified.10/ Faculty FTE Calculation = SH Taught/1211/ FTE Student-Faculty Ratio Calculation = Full Time Equivalent (FTE) / Total FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty & Adjunct Faculty12/ Number of graduates/degrees earned includes dual degrees13/ Percent of Majors Graduating Calculation = Number of graduates or degrees earned/Number of Majors14/


Budgetary Allocation provided by R.Ivanova on 2014-05-20. Budget Allocations is not available by Program Level for the College of Arts and Sciences. Presented here is an approximation of the salaries paid for the Fiscal Year. This total includes faculty members with paid leave. This total does not include fringe benefits paid and/or overload costs and/or faculty paybacks.

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1. Student Count Information (by Fall Semesters)

a. Number of Majors 1

44 48 44 40 36

b. Number of Minors 2

2 3 5 5 3

c. Number of Graduate Students N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

2. Annual Course Information (by Fall Semesters)

a. Student Semester Hours (SSH) Generated 522 532 490 484 438

b. Full Time Equivalent (FTE) 3

35 35 33 32 29

c. Percent of FTE of own Majors 25.5% 22.2% 21.6% 19.0% 29.2%

d. Percent of FTE of Majors within College 60.5% 56.6% 64.7% 62.8% 61.0%

e. Percent of FTE All Others 14.0% 21.2% 13.7% 18.2% 9.8%

f. Percent of FTE of Writing Intensive (WI) Courses 2.1% 0.0% 8.6% 0.0% 2.1%

g. Percent of FTE General Education (GE) Courses 4

74.7% 89.8% 85.1% 75.2% 67.1%

3. Course Delivery (by Fall Semesters)

a. 18 23 19 23 18

b. Average class size - Distance Learning 5 7

0 0 0 20 0

c. Number of FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 8 10

1.50 1.25 1.17 0.75 1.00

d. Number of FTE Adjunct Faculty 9 10

0.58 0.33 0.25 0.92 0.50

e. % SH Taught by Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 72.0% 78.9% 82.4% 45.0% 66.7%

f. % SH Taught by Adjunct Faculty 28.0% 21.1% 17.6% 55.0% 33.3%

g. 17 22 23 19 19

4. Graduation and Placement (by Fiscal Year)

a. Number of graduates/degrees earned 12

8 6 2 6 6

b. Percent of Majors Graduating 13

18.2% 12.5% 4.5% 15.0% 16.7%

c. Number of Native Hawaiian graduates 0 0 0 1 0

d. Number of Certificates awarded 0 0 0 0 0

5. Cost of Delivery (by Fiscal Year)

a. Budgetary Allocations 14

$203,520 $243,066 $262,062 $258,216 $212,198

b. Cost per SSH 15

$154.18 $181.94 $229.68 $215.90 $182.30

Notes:

1/ Number of Majors = Number of 1st Declared Majors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared major.

2/ Number of Minors = Number of 1st Declared Minors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared minor.

3/ Undergraduate FTE Calculation = SSH/15. Graduate FTE Calculation = SSH/12.

4/ GE Course Listing from C.Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013"

5/ Excludes classes numbered -99 (individual instruction)



8/ HR Datamart defines Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty as Instructor Grades: I3's, I4's, I5's and/or otherwise specified.

9/ Adjunct Faculty defined as Instructor Grades: I2's, LecA, LecB, and LecC and/or otherwise specified.

10/ Faculty FTE Calculation = SH Taught/12

11/ FTE Student-Faculty Ratio Calculation = Full Time Equivalent (FTE) / Total FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty & Adjunct Faculty

12/ Number of graduates/degrees earned includes dual degrees

13/ Percent of Majors Graduating Calculation = Number of graduates or degrees earned/Number of Majors

14/




Budgetary Allocation provided by R.Ivanova on 2014-05-20. Budget Allocations is not available by Program Level for the College of Arts and

Sciences. Presented here is an approximation of the salaries paid for the Fiscal Year. This total includes faculty members with paid leave. This

Sources: C. Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013; HR Datamart: "Faculty-Lecturer Listing 2005-2013";

IRO_BASE (Census); IRO_DEGREE (EOS); IRO_REGS (Census); IRO_SOCAD (Census); IRO_SOCALL (Census)


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2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-151. Student Count Information (by Fall Semesters)

a. Number of Majors 1 63 54 44 45 44 44 48 44 40 36b. Number of Minors 2 2 3 3 4 5 2 3 5 5 3c. Number of Graduate Students N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

2. Annual Course Information (by Fall Semesters)a. Student Semester Hours (SSH) Generated 592 521 419 459 418 522 532 490 484 438

i. Lower Division 513 487 316 381 316 394 490 439 451 333ii. Upper Division 79 34 103 78 102 128 42 51 33 105iii. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

b. Full Time Equivalent (FTE) 3 39 35 28 31 28 35 35 33 32 29i. Lower Division 34 32 21 25 21 26 33 29 30 22ii. Upper Division 5 2 7 5 7 9 3 3 2 7iii. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

c. Percent of FTE of own Majors 32.4% 17.5% 24.8% 22.2% 30.9% 25.5% 22.2% 21.6% 19.0% 29.2%i. SSH by Majors 192 91 104 102 129 133 118 106 92 128ii. FTE by Majors 13 6 7 7 9 9 8 7 6 9

d. Percent of FTE of Majors within College 54.4% 67.2% 66.6% 62.1% 60.0% 60.5% 56.6% 64.7% 62.8% 61.0%i. SSH by College 322 350 279 285 251 316 301 317 304 267ii. FTE by College 21 23 19 19 17 21 20 21 20 18

e. Percent of FTE All Others 13.2% 15.4% 8.6% 15.7% 7.7% 14.0% 21.2% 13.7% 18.2% 9.8%i. SSH by all others 78 80 36 72 32 73 113 67 88 43ii. FTE by all others 5 5 2 5 2 5 8 4 6 3

f. Percent of FTE of Writing Intensive (WI) Courses 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.6% 2.1% 0.0% 8.6% 0.0% 2.1%i. SSH by WI Courses 0 0 0 0 11 11 0 42 0 9ii. FTE by WI Courses 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 1

g. Percent of FTE General Education (GE) Courses 4 75.5% 92.9% 74.5% 81.7% 75.4% 74.7% 89.8% 85.1% 75.2% 67.1%i. SSH by GE Courses 447 484 312 375 315 390 478 417 364 294ii. FTE by GE Courses 30 32 21 25 21 26 32 28 24 20

3. Course Delivery (by Fall Semesters)a. 19 24 19 17 15 18 23 19 23 18

Lower Division 27 30 35 42 35 33 31 22 25 25Upper Division 7 6 9 5 7 10 7 9 10 9Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0i. Number of Registrations 224 192 149 157 161 199 205 174 158 160



b. Average class size - Distance Learning 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0Lower Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0Upper Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0i. Number of Registrations 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0



Total FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty & Adjunct Faculty 10 2.08 1.50 1.67 1.42 1.83 2.08 1.58 1.42 1.67 1.50Lower Division 1.42 1.17 0.75 0.75 0.75 1.00 1.00 1.17 1.42 0.92Upper Division 0.67 0.33 0.92 0.67 1.08 1.08 0.58 0.25 0.25 0.58Graduate Level 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

c. Number of FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 8 10 1.58 1.17 1.00 1.42 1.75 1.50 1.25 1.17 0.75 1.00i. Lower Division 0.92 0.92 0.50 0.75 0.75 0.50 0.67 0.92 0.50 0.67ii. Upper Division 0.67 0.25 0.50 0.67 1.00 1.00 0.58 0.25 0.25 0.33iii. Graduate Level 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

d. Number of FTE Adjunct Faculty 9 10 0.50 0.33 0.67 0.00 0.08 0.58 0.33 0.25 0.92 0.50i. Lower Division 0.50 0.25 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.33 0.25 0.92 0.25ii. Upper Division 0.00 0.08 0.42 0.00 0.08 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25iii. Graduate Level 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Total SH Taught 25 18 20 17 22 25 19 17 20 18Lower Division 17 14 9 9 9 12 12 14 17 11Upper Division 8 4 11 8 13 13 7 3 3 7Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

e. % SH Taught by Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 76.0% 77.8% 60.0% 100.0% 95.5% 72.0% 78.9% 82.4% 45.0% 66.7%i. SH Taught by Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty 19 14 12 17 21 18 15 14 9 12


Appendix C: Quantitative DataUniversity of Hawai‘i at Hilo

B.S. in Astronomy*Adjusted Allocation*



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2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15f. % SH Taught by Adjunct Faculty 24.0% 22.2% 40.0% 0.0% 4.5% 28.0% 21.1% 17.6% 55.0% 33.3%

i. SH Taught by Adjunct Faculty 6 4 8 0 1 7 4 3 11 61. Lower Division 6 3 3 0 0 6 4 3 11 32. Upper Division 0 1 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 33. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

g. 19 23 17 22 15 17 22 23 19 19i. Lower Division 24 28 28 34 28 26 33 25 21 24ii. Upper Division 8 7 7 8 6 8 5 14 9 12iii. Graduate Level 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

4. Graduation and Placement (by Fiscal Year)a. Number of graduates/degrees earned 12 16 8 8 10 6 8 6 2 6 6b. Percent of Majors Graduating 13 25.4% 14.8% 18.2% 22.2% 13.6% 18.2% 12.5% 4.5% 15.0% 16.7%c. Number of Native Hawaiian graduates 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0d. Number of Certificates awarded 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

5. Cost of Delivery (by Fiscal Year)a. Budgetary Allocations 14 $163,795 $1,544,253 $304,385 $220,206 $199,162 $203,520 $243,066 $262,062 $258,216 $212,198

i. A-Budget $163,795 $1,544,253 $304,385 $220,206 $199,162 $203,520 $243,066 $262,062 $252,816 $206,798ii. B-Budget $5,400 $5,400

b. Cost per SSH 15 $103.86 $1,000.16 $195.62 $154.21 $139.96 $154.18 $181.94 $229.68 $215.90 $182.30i. SSH by Fiscal Year 1,577 1,544 1,556 1,428 1,423 1,320 1,336 1,141 1,196 1,164

Notes:1/ Number of Majors = Number of 1st Declared Majors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared major.2/ Number of Minors = Number of 1st Declared Minors of the selected program. These figures do not count 2nd, 3rd, or 4th declared minor.3/ Undergraduate FTE Calculation = SSH/15. Graduate FTE Calculation = SSH/12.4/ GE Course Listing from C.Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013"5/ Excludes classes numbered -99 (individual instruction)6/ Average Class Size Calculation = Number of Registrations/Number of Classes7/ Average Class Size Calculation = Number of Registrations/Number of Classes8/ HR Datamart defines Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty as Instructor Grades: I3's, I4's, I5's and/or otherwise specified.9/ Adjunct Faculty defined as Instructor Grades: I2's, LecA, LecB, and LecC and/or otherwise specified.10/ Faculty FTE Calculation = SH Taught/1211/ FTE Student-Faculty Ratio Calculation = Full Time Equivalent (FTE) / Total FTE Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty & Adjunct Faculty12/ Number of graduates/degrees earned includes dual degrees13/ Percent of Majors Graduating Calculation = Number of graduates or degrees earned/Number of Majors14/




Budgetary Allocation provided by R.Ivanova on 2014-05-20. Budget Allocations is not available by Program Level for the College of Arts and Sciences. Presented here is an approximation of the salaries paid for the Fiscal Year. This total includes faculty members with paid leave. This total does not include fringe benefits paid and/or overload costs and/or faculty paybacks.

Sources: C. Travis "approved gen ed and courses approved to meet integrative requirements nov 2013; HR Datamart: "Faculty-Lecturer Listing 2005-2013"; IRO_BASE (Census); IRO_DEGREE (EOS); IRO_REGS (Census); IRO_SOCAD (Census); IRO_SOCALL (Census)


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V.1 Evidence of Student Success - Assessment Based

Institutional Assessments

UHH has developed a series of core competency assessments as part of the Western Association of Schools’(WASC) accreditation process. UHH requires that each department measures Institutional General Requirementgoals. Thus far, each department at UHH has assessed students in the areas of Written Communication (AY2013-14), Quantitative Reasoning (AY 2014-15), Information Literacy (AY 2015-16) and is currently assessingthe area of Oral Communication (AY 2016-17). The results of our majors is presented in Appendices A-5, A-6,and A-7. The department will be studying the performance of our majors from the institutional assessments anddecide what changes if any, will be implemented in our academic programs.

Departmental Assessments

The Department of Physics and Astronomy does not currently have an uniform way to assess the performanceof our majors but will be looking into this over the next few years. Since we implemented several changes in thelast three years, we would like to gather data once at least one or two cohorts have followed the newest academicprogram from start to end before we assess and implement modifications again.

V.2 Success of Current Students

Over the last five years, many of our students have secured internships either at competitive NSF REU centerssuch as the National Undergraduate Fellowship through the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) andthe Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Akamai Internship in Hawaii supported by Hawaii observatoriesand the University of California Santa Cruz, Hawaii NASA Space Grants, and intramural and extramural grantssecured by the astronomy faculty. These projects have lead students to present their work in meetings at SACNAS(Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics, and Native Americans in Science) and national and internationalprofessional conferences such as the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the International AstronomicalUnion (IAU).

The number of students being accepted in graduate programs (MS and PhD) has increased over the last 10 yearsand some of them have secured faculty and research positions after graduate school. Several held post-doctoralpositions and some have moved into the private industry. One of our own undergraduates has recently accepteda tenure-track faculty position at UHH.

V.3 Former Student and Alumni Success

For the time period AY 2005-06 through AY 2014-15, on average, the Department of Physics and Astronomyhas had 56.3 majors and conferred 11.3 degrees every year. The majority of majors and degrees (∼ 70%) are inastronomy. Since the B.A. Physics was established, 68 majors have graduated since 1991 and since the B.S. inAstronomy was established, 101 majors have graduated since 2001. The Department has not been able to querythe alumni in a systematic manner and thus most of the information we have gathered is anecdotal and heavilyweighted toward those who remained in the island or in the fields of physics and astronomy. From a list of 30alumni, approximately 30-40% of them have gone to graduate school in astronomy Twelve of them secured a jobat the observatories or other astronomy center (∼ 40%) and most of them (10 of the 12) continue working in aSTEM field.

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V.4 Faculty

Faculty Composition

During the past ten years, the department lost four tenured, two tenure-track faculty and one instructor position.The administration allowed the replacement of five of them. The net growth in faculty remains negative. Atenure-track position in physics vacated in 2015 and the recent loss of an instructor in January 2017 has forcedthe department to hire a large number of lecturers, some of which have continued teaching over several semesters.Table 24 lists the faculty, rank, areas of expertise and years of service. Their CVs are presented in Appendix A-8.

Table 24: Physics and Astronomy Faculty & Staff

Name Rank Fields of Experice Year of Service

Philippe Binder Professor Nonlinear science, complex systems, physics education 16

Kathy Cooksey Assistant Professor Cosmic chemical enrichment 3

John Hamilton Instructor Planetary Astronomy/Geology, Space Physics (inc. Robotics) 14

R. Pierre Martin† Assistant Professor Chemical evolution of Galaxies, Telescope 5

Marianne Takamiya Associate Professor Star formation in galaxies, galaxy structure, globular clusters 12‡

John Coney APT§ IT, photography, web-master 20

†Director of UHH Observatory‡3 years as non-tenure track§Administrative, Professional, and Technical

All tenured and tenure-track faculty have a 9-credit teaching load while instructors have a 12-credit load duringthe regular academic year. All teach introductory and upper division courses and given that most faculty arecapable to teach a wide variety of upper division courses, the department attempts to assign courses in a fair andimpartial way with the input from all involved.

The Department does not regularly offer a suite of courses in the summer but the faculty or lecturers interestedin teaching in the summer propose courses. Many of them are delivered online.

The freshman physics labs PHYS 170L and PHYS 171L required a lab coordinator which used to count as a3-credit teaching load from an instructor or professor. Due to the decrease in faculty, a lecturer has assumed therole of lab coordinator.

Administrative, Professional, and Technical - APT

The laboratory courses in physics and astronomy require large support from the APT. The APT is in chargeof purchasing equipment for all labs: 5 freshman labs, 2 sophomore labs, and for supporting the instructionalfaculty’s needs. The APT is also involved in supporting field trips to the mountain, outreach events, and theresearch computers and instructional computers software and hardware.

Student Workers

Majors in astronomy and physics are regularly employed as lab assistants. Their jobs are to set up and takedown the equipment every week. The physics lab coordinator supervises these students. The freshman physicslabs PHYS 170L and PHYS 171L and starting in Fall 2017 in PHYS 151L and PHYS 152, have required a labcoordinator which used to count as a 3-credit teaching load from an instructor or professor. Due to the decrease

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in faculty, a lecturer has assumed the role of lab coordinator. In the physics freshman labs, physics majors arehired as lab assistants and their jobs are to set up and take down the equipment every week.

The astronomy freshman labs (ASTR 110L) do not have a position of lab coordinator and thus one of theinstructors of record assumes this role. Similar to the physics lab, astronomy majors are hired as lab assistants.In addition to setting up and taking down the equipment, the astronomy lab assistants are expected to help duringthe lab sessions. They help answer questions and show how the equipment is used safely and carefully. The labassistants are sometimes key when a faculty or lecturer teaches the lab for the first time as the lab assistanthas had more experience with the equipment and the experiment. In the astronomy labs, student assistantsalso participate in the end-of-semester field trip to the mountain for night-time observations with 6-inch portabletelescopes.

The sophomore astronomy lab (ASTR 250L) does require extensive support from the APT to set up equipment,attend 3-4 field trips to the mountain, and aid in the set up of the heavy 9.25-inch telescopes.

Faculty Achievements in Scholarship

Although the number of faculty has decreased since the last program review, all faculty are engaged in research.Most of the research includes UHH undergraduate students. Together, the faculty members have published atotal of 26 refereed papers and presented papers in 25 conferences many with UHH undergraduate students as co-authors since 2012. Most recent refereed papers of faculty involve authors from well-established collaborations inprestigious journals. Many faculty, tenure-track and instructors, have received extramural grants from competitivesources as PIs and co-Is. All faculty have received seed grants from UHH. These grant activities have allowedeach to develop their research program further and promote our institution and our academic programs to a wideraudience. Most of the faculty serve as referees and reviewers of prestigious journals (ApJ, AJ)29 and fundingagencies (NSF, NASA, and international funding agencies). All astronomy faculty can compete for telescope timeat observatories on Maunakea and are consistently allocated time on all telescopes on Maunakea.

Our increased visibility has allowed us to maintain collaborations with individual colleagues and large groups(e.g. SIGNALS, BASALT, ACS Virgo Cluster Survey). The Department also collaborates with the Institutefor Astronomy (IfA) at UH Manoa in research (e.g. HEROES, RoboAO, IMAKA) and together have developedagreements that benefit UHH in many aspects. The UHH faculty have been serving in the Telescope AllocationCommittee (TAC) soon after the astronomy program started at UHH. The Director of the IfA appoints onemember of our faculty in the TAC for three consecutive years. This committee is tasked to allocate arguablythe most important astronomical resource in Hawai‘i, which is the observing time on all but two telescopes onMaunakea. Nine of the 13 telescopes on Maunakea are allocated through the IfA TAC. Table 25 shows all theresources for astronomical research on Maunakea that are sensitive to the visible (350nm - 1µm), near-infrared(NIR: 1-2.5µm), mid-infrared (MIR: 3-25µm) and radio (1-660GHz, although some instruments in the higherenergy bands are not available any more). The Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) time is allocated throughNASA and the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).From the 13 telescopes, two are currently not operational for different reasons: CSO is being decommissionedand the Department telescope has had some problems since its upgrade, which will be discussed later. While allfaculty have access to the telescopes through the competitive TAC process, recently, the Department developedan agreement with IfA that provides guaranteed time on the telescopes starting in Fall 2016. The Memorandumof Understanding, attached in Appendix A-2, apportions observing time of all Maunakea telescopes to UHHastronomers starting with 5 nights in the first five years, 10 nights in the next 5 years and 16 nights thereafter.In turn, UHH commits to increasing the faculty in our Department to a total of seven tenure/tenure-track, twoinstructors, and two APTs to support education and research. This MOU was triggered by the IfA Director, Dr.

29ApJ: The Astrophysical Journal; AJ: Astronomical Journal

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Guenther Hassinger, the Chancellors of UH Manoa, Dr. Robert Bley-Vroman, and Hilo, Dr. Donald Straney, ViceChancellor of Research at Manoa, Dr. Michael Bruno, and UH President, Dr. David Lassner. This commitmentof IfA, one of the most prestigious programs in astronomy in the US, to support our program is a testamentof the quality of our program and faculty. It is possible to assign an equivalent dollar amount to this gain. Itdepends on the operational budget of each telescope and is roughly $50k per night per large glass telescope (8-10mtelescopes30) and $6,000 per night for smaller telescopes, based on the operational budget of $2M for the 2.2mand $17M for each Keck telescope. The equivalent in dollar amount per year gained by UHH from this agreementranges from $36,000 - $200,000 to double and more than triple in the next two phases in the years 2021 and 2026.

Table 25: Maunakea Observatories

N Name Diameter [m] Type TAC

1 Keck I 10 Visible/NIR/MIR IfA

2 Keck II 10 Visible/NIR/MIR IfA

3 Subaru 8.2 Visible/NIR/MIR IfA

4 Gemini North 8.0 Visible/NIR/MIR IfA

5 UKIRT$ 3.8 NIR/MIR IfA

6 CFHT¶ 3.6 NIR/MIR IfA

7 IRTF§ 3.0 NIR/MIR NASA

8 UH 2.2 Visible/NIR IfA

9 UHH 0.9 Visible not operational

10 VLBA 25 1.2-96 GHz NRAO

11 JCMT‡ 15 230, 330 GHz IfA

12 CSO† 10.4 radio decommissioned

13 SMA∗ 8×6 180-410 GHz IfA

† NIR: Near-Infrared; MIR: Mid-Infrared$ United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, now managed by IfA¶ Canada-Hawaii-France-Telescope§ Infrared Telescope Facility‡ James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, now managed by the East Asia Observatory† Caltech Submillimeter Observatory* Submillimeter Array

Most recently, UHH has been included in an agreement between US and China universities to exchange facultyand students in the field of astronomy. However, this agreement is mostly supported by the China ScholarshipCouncil (CSC) whereby Chinese faculty, researchers and students are financially supported to come to the US tostudy or collaborate in the selected US institutions, which are mainly part of the University of California systemand both UH campuses. The unprecedented motion was to add a pure undergraduate institution to the list of UShost institutions since all others have graduate programs. Our Department pushed for inclusion in this agreementto start a closer collaboration with Chinese astronomers at the undergraduate level. The final document wassigned June 7, 2016 in Beijing (see Appendix A-9).

As mentioned before, the Department owns and manages Hoku Ke’a, an observatory on Maunakea. The directoris currently one of our faculty and receives a reduced teaching load for these duties. The process to upgradethe telescope from a 24′′(60cm) to a 36′′(90cm) began in 2003. The delivered telescope and dome were deemedinoperable in 2013. In 2015, the Governor of the State of Hawai‘i asked that some telescopes be decommissioned

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and the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs of UHH initiated the process with the Notice of Intent (NOI) attachedin Appendix A-10. The community did not receive well the news of the cancellation of the only educationalobservatory on Maunakea. In May 2016, the Board of the Office of Maunakea Management (OMKM) held apublic hearing and decided to not approve the NOI at that time but instead suggested that OMKM consults witha wider base of the community in order to make an informed decision on the NOI. The process is still ongoing.Before the NOI was triggered by the VCAA, the IfA received funding from the State of Hawai‘i through a ∼$2MCapital Improvement Project (CIP) award to upgrade their own UH2.2m telescope. Knowing that the UHHobservatory was in dire situation, the IfA Director allocated ∼$0.5M to the UHH observatory. Facing a lost of thesite on Maunakea but sufficient funds to replace the defective observatory, the faculty in the Department workedwith UHH Chancellor to keep the funding for the observatory but find an alternative site. A new 27′′(0.7m)PlaneWave31 telescope was purchased and is being characterized in the lab on the UHH campus. The 18′′ domebuilt by Astrohaven32 has also been purchased and sits in a warehouse on campus. The dome and telescopewere built by highly reputable companies that have delivered many of the exact same products to professionalobservatories and research groups. This is a very different situation than when the telescope was upgraded froma 24′′ to a 36′′ however the site is now uncertain.

The School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences of Berry College, a small liberal arts school in Georgia, hasapproached us to develop a dual degree program. This program is a joint academic collaboration with BerryCollege to automatically transfer students majoring in astronomy from Berry College to UHH. The MOU is inthe process of being signed by the relevant authorities from both institutions and the unsigned final version ispresented in Appendix A-11. While the growth in enrollments is not expected to be large, at the level of onestudent per year, this is a relatively large number for small programs like astronomy and physics.

In summary, the faculty engages in a wide range of quality research and have now guaranteed access to state-of-the-art astronomical resources in Hawai‘i. These agreements are also a direct testament of the quality of ourprogram and faculty leading it.

31http://planewave.com/products-page/telescopes/32http://www.astrohaven.com/

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Curriculum Vitae R. Pierre Martin

Full Name: René Pierre Martin Permanent residency: USA (green card holder: exp. 2020) Data of Birth: July 11, 1964 Citizenship: Canadian Marital Status: Married to Dr. Patricia E. Pérez (US Citizen) Spoken and written languages: French & English, Spanish (basic) A - Professional Experience 2012 – Present University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI Assistant Professor of Astronomy/Observatory Director (Tenure track)

• Undergraduate teaching in physics and astronomy, department mission and vision, definition of content department curriculum, recruitment, student advising and mentoring, outreach and general services. Responsible for the implementation and operations of the UH-Hilo Hoku Kea Observatory, instrumentation for HK and integration within UH-Hilo curriculum. Supervision and maintenance of astronomy laboratory equipment, Mauna Kea director’s committee, OMKM participation, budgets, academic services, community interaction.

• Research in astrophysics: Galaxy evolution; Milky Way abundances; instrumentation and modern observational processes for astronomy; large-scale study of abundances in nearby galaxies with SITELLE at CFHT (2015 - ); Extragalactic astronomy from the Moon (In collaboration with ILOA and NAOC).

2011 – 2012 Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, Pasadena, CA Contractor

• Revise the current conceptual operational plan for GMTO and develop a new plan for the Preliminary Design Review phase (planned for the end of 2012). Define observing modes (classical, remote, queue), general operations and facilities, operations survey of existing facilities, proposal submission and telescope scheduling, metrics, upgrades, new instrumentation development, data management, scientific and technical support, staffing, organizational structure, scalability, costs, contingency.

2008 – 2011 WIYN Observatory, Tucson, AZ Executive Director/One Degree Imager Principal Investigator

Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Hawaii at Hilo 200 W. Kawili Street Hilo, HI, 96720

Phone : 808-932-7028 E-mail : [email protected]


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• Responsible for the health and progress of the WIYN observatory. Management, strategic planning.

Instrumentation developments and operation models. Prioritization, project reviews, staffing, science activities, safety. Meetings, reports & scheduling. Observing efficiency and metrics. Evaluation of staff performance. Recruitment. Budget administration. Science Advisory Committee, Board of Directors.

• Research: Molecular near-IR imaging of planetary nebulae, interacting galaxies, Semi-regular variable stars abundances, instrumentation.

1997 – 2008: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Kamuela, HI Resident/Staff Astronomer (regular position) • Director of Science Operations / Astronomy Group Manager / CFHT Executive: Supervision of

Resident/Staff Astronomers, Observing Assistants, Service Observers, and Librarian. Prioritization, project reviews, manpower, science activities, safety supervision. Proposal submission process, technical evaluations. Meetings, reports & scheduling. Observing efficiency and metrics. Evaluation of staff performance. Recruitment. Budget administration. Science Advisory Committee, Board of Directors, Observatory Council, User’s meetings.

• Project Scientist/Manager. Queued Service Observing (QSO) Project with

CFH12K/MegaCam/WIRCam/ESPaDOnS: Software design, implementation, testing, and integration. Queue operations: coordination, proposal evaluation, Phase 1 and Phase 2, short and long-term planning, training, reviews and reports, operational scheduling, statistics, data quality control, program management, calibration plan, night reports, email management, data distribution. . Budgetary and personnel issues. WIRCam/ESPaDOnS NOP (New Observing Process): development leadership/management. Observatory Automation Project: Science requirements, logistics.

• Instrument Scientist: Integral Field Spectrograph (OASIS), Fabry-Perot Interferometers, Spectral

calibration system. • Support Astronomer: OASIS Integral Field Spectrograph, Fabry-Perot Interferometers, Multi-Object

Spectrograph (MOS/OSIS), Adaptive Optics Bonnette (PUEO), CFH12K Mosaic Camera. Introductions/Support/Documentation/Proposal Submission.

• Research: Galaxy Evolution and Dynamics, Bars, Extragalactic Star Formation, HII Regions, Active

Galactic Nuclei, Jets, Galactic Chemical Evolution, Cepheids, Planetary Nebulae.

1996 - 1997: European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile New Technology Telescope (NTT) Postdoctoral Fellow • Instrument Scientist: ESO Multi-Mode Instrument (EMMI) : CCD imaging, long-slit and multi-object

spectroscopy, echelle and dichroic spectroscopic mode. Instrument commissioning, engineering, testing. Documentation.


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• NTT Team Coordinator: Operations on La Silla during support run; management of the scientific and technical staff operations.

• Service Observer: Queue mode (EMMI/SUSI). • Research: Galaxy Evolution and Dynamics, Bars, Extragalactic Star Formation, HII Regions, Active

Galactic Nuclei, Tidal Galaxies, Galactic Chemical Evolution.

1993 – 1996: Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson FCAR/NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow • Research: (Supervisor: Dr. R. C. Kennicutt, Jr.). Galaxy Evolution and Dynamics, Bars, Extragalactic

Star Formation, HII Regions. Observations: Book 90-inch Telescope, MMT, CFHT

B - Education

1988 -1992: Laval University, Québec, Canada PhD in Astrophysics • Supervisor: Dr. Jean-René Roy. Thesis: “The Chemical Abundance Gradients in Barred Spiral

Galaxies”. Optical Imaging (narrow-band)/Spectroscopy.

1987 – 1988: Laval University, Québec, Canada Master in Astrophysics • Supervisor: Dr. Jean-René Roy. Thesis: “The Optical Jet in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 4258”. Narrow-

band imaging.

1984 – 1987: Université du Québec, Rimouski, Canada Bachelor’s degree in Physics

C – Fellowships/Grants

• UH Hilo Seed Money Grant ($10,771)(2013): Preparation for the galaxy survey with the CFHT FTS SITELLE.

• Postdoctoral fellowship provided by the European Southern Observatory (1996-1997, La Silla, Chile) • Postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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• Postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide la Recherche (1993, Steward Observatory)

• PhD fellowship provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (1989-

1991, Laval University) • PhD fellowship provided by provided by the Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide a la

Recherche (summer 1991, Laval University)

D - Teaching Experience/Mentorship

• UH-Hilo “General Astronomy” (ASTR110): Astronomy survey for non-science students (2012, 2013, 2015; 2016) (160 students)

• UH-Hilo “Observational Astronomy” (ASTR 250): Introduction to observational techniques of modern astrophysics for astronomy majors (2013, 2014) (25 students)

• UH- Hilo “Stellar Astrophysics” (ASTR350): Stellar physics for astronomy majors (junior level) (2014, 2015, 2016) (25 students)

• UH-Hilo “Observational Astronomy Laboratory” (ASTR 250L): Introduction to observational techniques

of modern astrophysics for astronomy majors (2016) (12 students) • UH-Hilo “Galactic and Extrgalactic Astrophsyics” (ASTR 351): Physics of the Milky Way and galaxies

and introduction to cosmology for astronomy majors (2016) (8 students) • UH-Hilo “Seminar” (ASTR 495): Seminar presentations on topics in the physical sciences for natural

science majors (2015) (20 students) • Mentor for UH-Hilo undergraduate student Cale Clementson (2014-2015): SITELLE (UHH Seed money

grant) • Mentor for UH-Hilo undergraduate student Travis Thieme (F2016): “Small-scale properties of nebula in

nearby disk galaxies” (NASA Space Grant fellowship) • Mentor for UH-Hilo undergraduate student Callie Crowder (F2016): “Integration and Commissioning of

the new UH Hilo Hoku Kea Observatory” (NASA Space grant traineeship) • Mentor of Dr. Laurie Nepton-Rousseau, Canadian postdoctoral fellow within the UH Hilo Department of

Physics & Astronomy (upcoming, 2017)

E – Additional Professional Activities

• Chairman of Search Committee for UH Hilo Faculty position within the Department of Physics & Astronomy (2016)


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• Member of UHH-UHM committee charging of defining the process of telescope time allocation on Maunakea Observatories for UH Hilo (2016)

• Active participation in educational discussions on astronomy and the future of Maunakea observatory with local communities.

• Adviser for equipment procurement and maintenance and for the astronomical imaging program for the Maunakea Visitor Center.

• Member of the instrumentation development and commissioning team for the SITELLE imaging spectrograph built by Université Laval/ABB (2010-present)

• Collaboration with the International Lunar Observatory Association for the Astronomy from the Moon program

• Member of the University of Hawaii Time Allocation Committee (2012-2015) • Informal consultant for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE)(2015- ), Colby College

Observatory (2015), University of Sao Paulo observatory (2013-2014), ILOA Moon Observatory (2015- ).

• Member of the AURA Coordinating Council of Observatory Research Directors (ACCORD)

(2008-2011) • Chairman of the working group and project scientist/manager for implementation of the remote

observing facility at CFHT. • Associate professor (1999 – 2004) at Laval University (co-supervisor of M. Lelièvre PhD Thesis on

“Sub-critical star formation regime in galaxy disks”). • Member of the CASCA “Optical and Infrared Astronomy Committee” chaired by René Racine

(2003 - 2007) • CFHT representative on the New Generation CFHT Committee (“NGC”), charged with evaluating

the long-term future of CFHT and propose a replacement design for the actual telescope (1999). • Co-editor of the CFHT Information Bulletin (#40) and proceedings for the CFHT Users Meeting in

Quebec City (May 1998). • Member of Local Organizing Committee for the ADASS IX Conference hosted by CFHT in

October 1999. • Invited astronomer by Université de Paris VII for one-month stay at Meudon Observatory (July,

1996). • Assistant teacher for an introductory course in astronomy at Laval University (1989). • NTT representative on the working group for the ESO computer network system on La Silla. • Student representative for the Scientific Committee of the Mount Megantic Observatory (1989 -

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F – Other Qualifications

• Very familiar with IRAF.

• Familiar with relational database design.

• Computer platforms: UNIX/Solaris/Windows/Mac OS/Linux

• Programming languages: Perl, Tcl/Tk, HTML, Fortran, SQL, Coldfusion, Python (basic).

• Tools: Latex, FrameMaker, MS Office, Dreamweaver, Data Designer, Adobe products, Skycat, SigmaPlot, Sybase, Kaleidagraph, Hummingbird, MaximDL, and others.

• Management and leadership training from Frontier Associates, Inc.

• Expertise with small aperture (<0.8m) telescopes and instrumentation.

• Formal training in modern teaching techniques for Physics and Astronomy.

• Some expertise in historical astronomy.

G – Professional Memberships

• Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the American Astronomical Society (AAS), and the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA).

H – Colloquia

• Invited speaker at the “2nd Beijing Forum on Lunar and Deep Space Exploration” in Beijing, China for a talk on “Exploring Galaxies From the Moon”, Sept 7-10, 2015.

• Invited speaker for a talk on WIYN at the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Quebec (CRAQ), (Quebec City, 2009)

• Invited speaker for a review talk on abundance gradients in barred spirals at the International workshop on “Abundance Profiles: diagnostic tools for galaxy history (Quebec City, October 1997).

• Invited speaker for a review on star formation regions in galactic bars at the IAU Coll. No. 157, “Barred Galaxies”, (Tuscaloosa, May 1995)

• Conferences/Workshop (non-exhaustive): “ngCFHT”, (Hilo, 2013), “Science with Sitelle” (Canada, 2013), Telescopes from Afar (Hawaii, 2011), SPIE (San Diego, 2010), SPIE (Hawaii, 2002), ADASS XI (Victoria, 2001); ADASS IX (Waikoloa, 1999); SPIE (Kona, 1998); “Abundance Profiles” (Quebec City, 1997); “Barred Galaxies” (Tuscaloosa, 1995); “Effets d’environnement” (Paris, 1993); “Mass-transfer induced activity” (Lexington, 1993); “Dynamics of Galaxies” (Paris, 1990); “Le Monde des Galaxies” (Paris, 1989); AAS & CASCA (numerous meetings), WIYN Yale Survey Workshop (2010)


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I – Publications

Refereed Papers

1. Nepton-Rousseau, L, Drissen, L, Robert, C, Martin, T & Martin, R. P., 2016, Integral Field observations of NGC 628 with SITELLE. I., MNRAS, submitted.

2. Andrievsky, S.M., Martin R. P., Kovtyukh, V.V., Korotin, S.A., Lépine, J. R. D, 2016, Oxygen, a-element and iron abundance distributions in the inner part of the Galactic thin disc. II, MNRAS, in press.

3. Martin, R.P., Andrievsky, S.M., Kovtyukh, V.V., Korotin, S.A., Yegorova, I.A., Saviane, I., 2015, Oxygen, a-element and iron abundance distributions in the inner part of the Galactic thin disc, MNRAS, 449, 4071.

4. Drissen, L., Rousseau-Nepton, L., Lavoie, S., Martin, T., Robert, C., Martin, R.P., Mandar, J., Grandmont, F., 2014, Imaging FTS: a different approach to integral field spectroscopy, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2014, 9.

5. Britavskiy, N.E., Andrievsky, S.M., Tsymbal, V.V., Korotin, S.A., Martin, P., Andrievska, A. S., 2012, Chemical composition of semi-regular variable giants. III, A&A, 542, 104.

6. Britavskiy, N.E., Andrievsky, S.M., Korotin, S.A., Martin, P., 2010, Chemical composition of semi-regular variable giants. II, A&A, 519, 74.

7. Drissen, L., Crowther, P., Ubeda, L., Martin, P., 2008, Wolf-Rayet stars in M33 II. Optical spectroscopy of emission-line stars in giant HII regions, MNRAS, 389, 1033.

8. Andrievsky, S.M., Korotin, S.A., Martin, P., 2007, Chemical composition of semi-regular variable giants, A&A, 464, 709.

9. Meech, K., et al., 2005, Deep Impact: Observations from a Worldwide Earth-Based Campaign, Science, 309.

10. Andrievsky, S. M., Luck, R. E., Martin, P., Lepine, J.R.D., 2004, The Galactic Abundance Gradient from Cepheids. V. Transition zone between 10 and 11 kpc., A&A. 413, 159-172.

11. Abbott, J. B., Crowther, P. A., Drissen, L., Dessart, L., Martin, P., Boivin, G., 2004, Wolf-Rayet Stars in M33. I: Optical Spectroscopy using CFHT-MOS, MNRAS, 350, 552

12. Menard, F., Dougados, C., Magnier, E., Duchene, G., Cuillandre, J.-C., Fahlman, G., Forveille, T., Lai, O., Manset. N., Martin, P., Veillet, C., Martin, E. & Magazzu, A., IRAS 04158+2805 : A Low-Mass Star with an Edge-on Disk, submitted to A&A.

13. Bacon, R., Emsellem, E., Combes, F., Copin, Y., Monnet, G., & Martin, P., 2001, The M31 double nucleus probed with OASIS: A natural m=1 mode?, A&A, 371, 409.

14. Martin, P., Lelievre, M., & Roy, J.-R., 2000, The O/H distribution in NGC 7479: Evidence of a minor merger event, ApJ, 538, 141.

15. Kennicutt, R. C., Jr., Bresolin, F., French, H., & Martin, P., 2000, An Empirical Test and

Calibration of HII Region Diagnostics, ApJ, 537, 589. 16. Weilbacher, P. M., Duc., P.-A., Fritze-v.Alvensleben, U., Martin, P., & Fricke, K.J., 2000, Tidal

dwarf candidates in a sample of interacting galaxies, A&A, 358, 819.


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17. Greusard, D., Wozniak, H., Friedli, D., Martinet, L., & Martin, P., 2000, Near-infrared probing of

embedded structures in starburst and Seyfert galaxies, A&AS, 145, 425. 18. Martin, P., & Friedli, D. 1999, Star formation in bar environments II. Physical properties, age and

abundances of HII regions, , A&A, 346. 769-777. 19. Martin, P., & Friedli, D., 1997, Star formation in bar environments I. Morphology, star formation

rates and general properties, A&A, 326, 449-464. 20. Martin, P., & Belley, J., 1997, Nebular gas abundances and mixing processes in the ringed galaxy

NGC 4736, A&A, 321, 363-373. 21. Martin, P., & Belley, J., 1996, Arm-interarm and large-scale O/H variations in disk galaxies, ApJ,

468, 598. 22. Jablonka, P., Martin, P., & Arimoto, N., 1996, The luminosity-metallicity relation for bulges of

spiral galaxies, AJ, 112, 1415. 23. Roy, J.-R., Belley, J., Dutil, Y., & Martin, P., 1996, The O/H distribution in the low-mass galaxies

NGC 2366 and NGC 4395, ApJ, 460, 284. 24. Martin, P. & Roy, J.-R., 1995, The oxygen distribution in NGC 3359 or a disk galaxy in the early

phase of bar formation, ApJ, 1995, 445, 161. 25. Martin, P., 1995, Quantitative morphology of bars in spiral galaxies, AJ, 109, 2428. 26. Wozniak, H., Friedli, D., Martinet, L., Martin, P., & Bratschi, P., 1995, Disc galaxies with

multiple triaxial features I. BVRI and Hα photometry, A&AS, 111, 115. 27. Wozniak, H., Friedli, D., Martinet, L., Martin, P., & Bratschi, P., 1995, Disc galaxies with multiple

triaxial features I. BVRI and Hα photometry, Astro Lett. and Communications 31, 153. 28. Martin, P., & Roy, J.-R., 1994, The influence of bars on the chemical composition of spiral

galaxies, ApJ, 424, 599. 29. Court\`es, G., Petit, H., Hua, C.T., Martin, P., Blecha, A., Huguenin, D., & Golay, M., 1993,

Structure of the spiral arms of NGC 4258 in Hα and at 2000 Angs.}, A&A, 268, 419. 30. Martin, P., & Roy, J.-R., 1992, The oxygen abundance gradient in the barred spiral galaxy NGC

4303, ApJ, 397, 463. 31. Plante, R., Lo, K.-Y., Roy, J.-R., Martin, P., & Noreau, L., 1991, Possible deflection of a jet by

molecular clouds in NGC 4258, ApJ, 381, 110. 32. Martin, P., Roy, J.-R., Noreau, L., & Lo, K.-Y., 1989, The optical jet of the galaxy NGC 4258:

interaction with the interstellar medium, ApJ, 345, 707. Non-refereed papers 33. Rousseau-Nepton, L., Robert, C., Drissen, L., Martin, R. P., Martin, T., et al., 2016, SITELLE at

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34. Harbeck, D., … Martin, R. P, Muller, G., Knezek, P., Hunten, M., 2014, The WYIN one degree

imager 2014: performance of the partially populated focal plane and instrument upgrade path, SPIE, 9147.

35. Gopu, A., … R. P. Martin, K. Archbold, 2014, ODI-Portal, Pipeline, and Archive (ODI-PPA): a

web based astronomical compute archive, visualization, and analysis service., SPIE, 9152.

36. Harbeck, D., Martin, P., Cavin, J., Jacoby, G., Muller, G., Yeatts, A., McCloskey, R., Ivens, J., Blanco, D., Corson, C., 2010, The WIYN One Degree Imager: Project Update 2010, SPIE, 7735, 15.

37. Ivens, J., Yeatts, A., Harbeck, D., Martin, P., 2010, User interface software development for the

WIYN One Degree Imager (ODI), SPIE, 7740, 36. 38. Drissen, L., Bernier, A.-P., Charlebois, M., Briere, E., Robert, C., Joncas, G, Martin, P.,

Grandmont, F., 2008, Science results form the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer SpIOMM, SPIE 7014, 246.

39. Vermeulen, T, Teeple, D, Mahoney, B, Thomas, J, Albert, L., Martin, P., Forveille, T., Yan, C-H.,

2006, CFHT WIRCam Software Architecture and Implementation, SPIE, 627, 16. 40. Martin, P., Savalle, R., Vermeulen, T, & Shapiro, J., 2002, The Queued Service Observing Project

at CFHT, SPIE, 4844, 74. 41. Abbott, J., Crowther, P., Drissen, L., Dessart, L, & Martin, P., 2002, Spectral Analysis of WC Stars

in M33 using CFHT-MOS, IAU Symp. 212, van Der Hulst, Herrero & Kateban, eds. 42. Savalle, R., Martin, P., Shapiro, J., & Vermeulen, T., 2002, The Queue Observing Project at

CFHT: Phase 2 database and observation submission tool, ADASS XI, 43. Vermeulen, T., Savalle, R., Martin, P., & Shapiro., J., 2002, The Queue Observing Project at

CFHT: Queue preparation and observation tools, ADASS XI. 44. Dougados, C., Menard, F., Cuillandre, J.-C., Magnier, E., Lai, O., Manset, N., Forveille, T.,

Fahlman, G., Martin, P., Veillet, C., McDonald, & J., Bouvier, J., A search for substellar mass objects in Taurus.

45. Lelievre, M., Roy, J.-R., & Martin, P., 2000, Star formation in subcritical environments, in Stars,

Gas and Dust in Galaxies: Exploring the links, ASP Conf. Series. Vol. 221, D. Alloin, K. Olsen, G. Galaz, eds. p.129

46. Greusard, D., Friedli, D., Martinet, L., Wozniak, H., & Martin, P., 1999, Near-IR probing of

embedded structures in active galaxies, in Galaxy Dynamics: from the Early Universe to the Present, ASP Conf. Series., vol. 197, F. Combes, G. Mamon, V. Charmandaris, eds., p.57.

47. Magrath, B., Arsenault, R., Barrick, G., Martin, P., Grundseth, B., Ward, J., Wilcox, D., Healy, S.,

& Knight, W., 1998, Novel telescope mounted spectral calibration source for the CFHT, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 3355, p.979.

48. Martin, P., 1998, Element distributions in barred galaxies, in " Abundance Profiles: Diagnostic

Tools for Galaxy History", ASP No, 147, p.68.


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49. Martin,P., & Rucinski, S., 1998, Proceedings of the fifth CFHT User’s Meeting, CFHT. 50. Martin, P., 1996, Properties of HII regions along galactic bars, in ``Barred Galaxies'', IAU Coll.

No. 157, p.70. 51. Jablonka, P., Arimoto, N., & Martin, P., 1996, The overabundance of magnesium over iron in

bulges of spiral galaxies, in New light on galaxy evolution, IAU 171, Kluwer, p.396. 52. Martin, P., \& Belley, J., 1996, O/H abundances in the ringed galaxy NGC 4736: Mixing processes

in the interstellar medium, in ``Barred Galaxies'', IAU Coll. No. 157, p.111. 53. Jablonka, P., Martin, P., & Arimoto, N., 1995, On the analogy between bulges of spiral galaxies

and ellipticals, in Fresh Views on Elliptical Galaxies, ASP No. 86, p185. 54. Martin, P., 1993, The abundance gradients in barred galaxies : the role of radial flows, in Mass-

transfer induced activity in galaxies, ed. I. Schlosman, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), p177. 55. Martin, P., Roy, J.-R., & Belley, J., 1992, The abundance gradients in barred spiral galaxies, in

Physics of Nearby Galaxies : Nature or Nurture?, eds. T. X. Thuan, C. Balkowski, J. T. T. Van., Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, France, (Ed. Frontieres), p101.

56. Martin, P., Roy, J.-R., Noreau, L., & Lo, K.-Y., 1989, The shaping of the optical jet of the galaxy

NGC 4258, in Structure and Dynamics of the interstellar Medium, Proc. of IAU No. 120, Springer-Verlag, p359.

IAU/MPEC Circulars 57. Veillet, C., Shapiro, J., Martin, P., $ Marsden, B.G., 2001, Minor planet Electronic Circ., C32. 58. Veillet, C., Shapiro, J., Martin, P., $ Marsden, B.G., 2001, Minor planet Electronic Circ., C21 59. Veillet, C., Shapiro, J., Martin, P., $ Marsden, B.G., 2001, Minor planet Electronic Circ., C20 60. Hainaut, O.R., Meech, K.J., Bauer, J., Martin, P., Mueller, K., Van de Steene G., Hurtado, N., &

Miranda, J., et al., 1997, The recovery of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, IAU Circular 6579. Others 61. Martin, P., & Friedli, D., At the Hearts of Barred Galaxies, 1999, Sky \& Telescope, vol.97,

number3, p.32.

62. Martin,P., & Rucinski, S., 1998, Proceedings of the fifth CFHT user’s meeting 63. Martin, P., 1991, A la Recherche des Supernovae Extragalactiques, Le Qu\'ebec Astronomique, 11,

12. 64. Martin, P., 1991, Vers Mars, 1991, Astronomie-Qu\'ebec, 1, 12. 65. Martin, P., 1991, Recherche des Supernovae Extragalactiques, Ciel \& Terre, Societe Royale Belge

d'Astronomie, 107, 131. 66. Martin, P., 1990, Recherche en astronomie amateure, Hyper-Espace, 2, no.2 , 3.


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67. Martin, P., & Levesque, S., 1987, Etudes Photographiques des Galaxies Exterieures, Le Quebec Astronomique, 7, 4

J – Related Activities

• Invited speaker for Federation des Astronomes Amateurs du Quebec, annual meeting 2007.

• Popular papers on astronomy in Le Quebec Astronomique, Astronomie-Quebec, Ciel & Terre, Hyper-Espace magazines.

• Popular talks on astronomy in Hilo, MKVIS, Quebec City, Rimouski, Montreal, Mount Megantic Observatory, Matane, Tucson, etc.

• Radio columnist on astronomy in Quebec City (CKRL-FM)

• Invited astronomer for interviews about future explorations of Mars and the Hubble Space Telescope at Radio-Canada (CBC) (Quebec City).

• First-price winner of the scientific journalism contest conducted by the Planetarium Dow (Montreal, 1991).

• Vice-president of the Rimouski Club for Amateur Astronomers (1986-1987).

• Co-founder and Member of the West Hawaii Astronomy Club

K – Other Interests

• Music: Drums and Percussion

• Amateur astronomy

• History: Science/World War II/Biographies/Music

L – References

Primary

Dr. Jean-René Roy

Associate Professor

Département de Physique

Université Laval

Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 0A6

[email protected]

Derrick Salmon

Director of Engineering

CFHT Corporation

65-1238 Mamalahoa Hwy

Kamuela, HI, 96743, USA

[email protected]

Dr. Greg Fahlman

General Manager

National Science Infras. (NRC-HIA)

5071 West Saanich Road

Victoria, BC, Canada V9E 2E7

[email protected]


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Prof. Charles Bailyn

Dept. Of Astronomy

Yale University

PO Box 208101

New Haven, CT 06520-8101

[email protected]

Dr. Dennis Crabtree

NRC/HIA

5071 W Saanich Rd

Victoria, BC, V9E 2E7

Canada

[email protected]

Prof. Marianna Takamiya

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

University of Hawai’i at Hilo

200 W. Kawili Street

Hilo, HI, 96720

[email protected]

Secondary

Dr. Laurent Drissen

Département de Physique

Université Laval

1045 avenue de la Medecine

Quebec, QC, CANADA

G1V 0A6

[email protected]

Prof. Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr.

Institute of Astronomy

University of Cambridge

Cambridge CB3 OHA

UK

[email protected]

Prof. Pieter Van Dokkum

Dept. Of Astronomy

Yale University

PO Box 208101

New Haven, CT 06520-8101

[email protected]


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CURRICULUM VITAE

KATHY L. COOKSEY

CONTACT INFORMATION

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

Department of Physics & Astronomy Phone: (808) 932-7195Natural Science Division, STB 219 Fax: (808) 932-7295200 West Kawili Street E-mail: [email protected], Hawai‘i 96720-4091, USA Web: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kcooksey

EDUCATION

Graduate 2003–2009, University of California, Santa CruzPh.D. Astronomy & Astrophysics August 2009

Probing the Chemical Composition of the z < 1 Intergalactic Mediumwith Observations and Simulations (advisor: Dr. J. Xavier Prochaska)

M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics June 2005Characterizing the Low-redshift Intergalactic Medium towardsPKS1302–102 (advisor: Dr. J. Xavier Prochaska)

Undergraduate 1999–2003, Valparaiso University, IndianaB.S. Physics with Honors, Summa Cum Laude May 2003

Senior Honors Thesis: The Formation of Substellar Companionsdue to Protostellar Disk Instabilities: Modeling the Effects of theGravitational Environment (advisor: Dr. Brian K. Pickett)

Christ College Scholar (interdisciplinary humanities-based honors program)

High School 1995–1999, Beavercreek High School, OhioDiploma with Honors, Salutatorian June 1999

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Assistant professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i, Hilo, 2014–present• National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Kavli Institute,

2010–2013

– Section Leader, 8.02t: “Physics II,” MIT, spring 2011

• Postdoctoral Fellow for Prof. Robert Simcoe, Department of Physics, MIT, 2009–2010• Graduate Student Researcher with Prof. Xavier Prochaska, Department of Astronomy & Astro-

physics, UCSC, 2004–2009

– Instructor, AY5: “Introductory Astronomy—The Formation and Evolution of the Universe,”UCSC, summer 2008

– Astronomy Lead Instructor (Cluster 7), California State Summer School for Mathematics andScience (COSMOS), UCSC, summers 2005–2007

– Project Advisor (Cluster 7), COSMOS, UCSC, summer 2004

• Teaching Assistant, AY16: “Life in the Universe,” UCSC, fall 2003• Northeastern University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), CERN, summer 2002• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory REU, Caltech, summer 2001• Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory REU, Chile, winter 2001• VU Department of Physics and Astronomy research assistant, summer 2000


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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Mentoring:

• Alex Hedglen (astronomy & physics major, UH Hilo): Organizing and processing spectra of 30 galaxy-quasar pairs; funded through HSGC Traineeship (academic year); summer 2015–spring 2016

• Jasmin Silva (astronomy & physics major, UH Hilo): Stacking analysis of multi-ion absorption-linesystems in SDSS DR7; funded through Hawai‘i/NASA Space Grant Consortium (HSGC) Fellowship(spring–fall 2015) and UH Hilo Seed Grant (summer); spring 2015–spring 2016

• Iosefa Trainer (math & astronomy major, UH Hilo): Classifying multi-ion absorption-line systemsin SDSS DR7 with non-parametric clustering analysis; funded through UH Hilo Seed Grant; spring2015

• Robert Ponga (BA Physics & BS Astronomy, UH Hilo class of 2015): Analysis of high-resolutionspectra, with VPFIT and CLOUDY, of strong C IV systems; funded as UCSC Jr. Specialist (summer2014) and HSGC Fellowship (fall 2014); summer 2014–spring 2015

• Natalie Nagata (physics major, UH Manoa): Stacking analysis of absorption-line systems in SDSSDR7; funded/organized through Akamai Workforce Initiative Internship; summer 2014

• Eduardo Seyffert (BS Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, MIT class of 2014): Survey forintergalactic Mg II absorbers in SDSS DR7 quasars; funded/organized through MIT UndergraduateResearch Opportunity Program; 2011–2013

– Publications: Matejek et al. 2013 (ApJ, 764, 9); Seyffert et al. 2013 (ApJ, 779, 161); andGauthier et al. 2014 (MNRAS, 439, 342)

Academic Courses:

• Assistant Professor, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

– ASTR110L: “General Astronomy Lab”: lab component of the introductory astronomy for non-majors (S15: 17 students; F16: 22 and 15 students in 2 sections; S16: 17 and 13 in 2 sections)

– ASTR180: “Principles of Astronomy I”: introductory astronomy course for majors, coveringproperties of light, astronomical observing, orbital mechanics, and solar system properties withgroup problem-solving active learning techniques (F14: 36 students; F15: 33; F16: 15)

– ASTR181: “Principles of Astronomy II”: introductory astronomy course for majors, coveringextragalactic astrophysics (e.g., stellar structure and evolution, formation and evolution of uni-verse), using group problem-solving active-learning techniques (S14: 23 students; S15: 13; S16:21)

– ASTR250: “Observational Astronomy”: introduction to modern observational techniques: statis-tics, instruments, data processing, etc. (S15: 10 students; S16: 7)

– ASTR260: “Computational Physics & Astronomy”: introduction to scientific programming andnumerical analysis (F15: 8 students)

– ASTR375: “Literature Review Practicum”: writing-intensive, upper-division course where stu-dents read and synthesize, in writing, a current astronomy or physics topic (F14: 9 students)

– ASTR394: “Spectroscopy in Astronomy”: experimental upper-division course covering howspectroscopy is used in modern astronomical research (S14: 9 students)

– ASTR495A/B: “Seminar”: natural sciences senior seminar (cross-listed with CHEM, GEOL,MATH, and PHYS); presentations include guest lecturers and 495B participants (S14: 15/20students)

– ASTR399: “Directed Studies”: advised the student, Jennifer Solis, on an astrobiology literaturereview (S14)

– PHYS170L: “General Physics I Lab”: lab component of the introductory mechanics class (F14:21 students; S15: 11)

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– PHYS170: “General Physics I” recitation (F16: 20 students)– PHYS171L: “General Physics II Lab”: lab component of the introductory electromagnetism

class (F14: 16 students)– PHYS171: “General Physics II” recitation (F16: 20 students)– PHYS331: “Optics”: upper-division physics course on optics, with focus on applications in

astronomy (F14: 13 students; F16: 6)

• Guest lecturer:

– “Is Science a Meritocracy?: Issues of Diversity & Equity,” natural sciences senior seminar(ASTR/CHEM/GEOL/MATH/PHYS495A/B), UH Hilo, 19 September 2014 and 25 September2015

– “The Universe in Absorption,” Astronomy 101: “Techniques in Observational Astrophysics,”Pomona College, CA, 20 November 2012

• Section Leader: 8.02t: “Physics II” (technology-enabled active learning version), MIT, spring 2011;instructor for one section of introduction to electromagnetism, content required for all MIT under-graduates (≈50 students)

• Instructor: Astronomy 005: “Introductory Astronomy—The Formation and Evolution of the Uni-verse,” UCSC, summer 2008; 5-week introductory course for non-science majors (13 students)

• Astronomy Lead Instructor: Cluster 7: “Stars and Cells,” California State Summer School for Math-ematics and Science (COSMOS) at UCSC, 2007; month-long introductory course on astronomy, as-trobiology, evolutionary biology, and paleontology for high-school students, focusing on inquiry-basedteaching methods (17 students)

• Astronomy Lead Instructor: Cluster 7: “Stars, Sight, and Science,” COSMOS at UCSC, 2005, 2006;month-long introductory course on astronomy and vision science for high-school students, focusingon inquiry-based teaching methods (15–17 students)

• Teaching Assistant: Astronomy 016: “Life in the Universe,” UCSC, fall 2003, Laurence Doyle (in-structor); introductory course for science majors (≈50 students)

Innovative Teaching & Outreach:

• Volunteer:

– After-school Python programming class at Kamehameha High School, Kea‘au, organized byMichelle Correia (chemistry and astronomy), fall 2015–spring 2016

– Amelia Earhart Girls Engineering Day speaker, co-sponsored by Waiakea High Robotics Cluband Hilo Zonta Club, 10 October 2015

– “Labor Pains: Fighting for Women in Science” panelist, AAUW-Hilo & UH Hilo’s Women’sStudies co-sponsored event, 23 April 2015

– Thirty Meter Telescope panelist, HawaiiCon 2014, 14 September 2014– Maunakea Astronomy Outreach Committee Annual AstroDay:

∗ 30 April 2016: supported students leading astrobiology demonstration and telescopes∗ 2 May 2015: organized and manned all-day Telescopes demonstration at Prince Kuhio Plaza∗ 3 May 2014: organized and manned all-day Color, Light, & Spectra demonstration at Prince

Kuhio Plaza

– Gemini Observatory “Journey through the Universe”

∗ 9, 10 March 2016: visited 2nd, 3rd, and 5th-grade classrooms to teach about galaxies, atE. B. DeSilva Elementary School (≈ 20 students), Chiefess Kapi‘olani Elementary School(≈20), and Waiakea Elementary School (≈30), respectively

∗ 3, 4 March 2015: visited 5th-grade and 7th-grade classrooms to teach about galaxies, atHa’aheo Elementary (≈30 students) and Waiakea Intermediate (≈30), respectively

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∗ 11 March 2014: visited three kindergarten classrooms to teach about galaxies; two at Wa-iakea Elementary (≈40 students total) and one at Ha’aheo Elementary (≈30)

– Ellison Onizuka Science Day

∗ 30 January 2016: demonstrated simple reflecting telescopes∗ 24 January 2015: answered questions and led activities for the Department of Physics

& Astronomy table; activities included galaxy classification, solar observing, and angularmomentum demonstration

∗ 25 January 2014: ibid.

– Astronomy Open House @ MIT, 30 April 2011: demonstrate optical versus ultraviolet light withUV-sensitive beads; field questions from community

• Discussion Leader: Organized and led discussion on issues of imposter syndrome for MIT Departmentof Physics Diversity & Inclusion Luncheon series, December 2011

– Described discussion in SPECTRUM (see Publications:Other)– MIT School of Science Infinite Kilometer Award 2012

• Mentor: MIT Office of Minority Education Mentor Advocate Partnership, 2011–2012; paired withfreshman to assist her transition to undergraduate life

– MAP “Titanium” Mentor Award 2012

• Co-Facilitator: “Three-kinds of Hands-on Learning” activity, ED212A: “Science Learning and Teach-ing in Elementary Classrooms,” UCSC, January 2007, Jerome Shaw (instructor); teaching inquirytechniques to undergraduate education majors

• Co-Facilitator: “Color and Light Inquiry,” physics/engineering lab, December 2004 & 2005, MauiCommunity College, Mark Hoffman (instructor); teaching properties of light and additive and sub-tractive color mixing with inquiry

• Project Advisor: “Stars, Sight, and Science,” COSMOS at UCSC, 2004; small-group, inquiry-basedproject on variable stars (3 students)

PRESENTATIONS

Colloquia and Seminars:

16. “Precious Metals (or Lack of) in SDSS Quasar Spectra,” IfA Manoa Colloquium, 8 April 2015(invited)

• “Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra”

15. Gemini Observatory North, 23 October 2014 (invited)14. Subaru Observatory, 4 August 2014 (invited)13. IfA Hilo Tech Talk, 29 January 2014 (invited)12. IfA Manoa WEDGE, 22 April 2013

• “Tracking the Evolution of Strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 C IV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems”

11. UC Irvine Astrophysics Seminar, January 201310. Caltech Tea Talk, November 20129. UCLA Journal Club, October 20128. Carnegie Observatories, September 20127. Leiden Observatory, August 2012 (invited)6. MPIA Galaxy Coffee, July 20125. LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, July 20124. Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 2012 (invited)

• “The Last Eight-Billion Years of Intergalactic C IV and Si IV Evolution”

3. CTIO, 19 November 2010

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2. Brown University, 10 November 2010 (invited)1. Boston University, 1 November 2010 (invited)

Conferences and Symposia:

12. “Precious Metals (or Lack Thereof) in SDSS Quasar Spectra,” From Wall to Web, Max PlanckInstitute for Astronomy, Berlin, Germany, July 2016 (invited)

11. “Precious Metals in SDSS QSOs: The Hunt for Intergalactic C IV in DR7,” MKI Postdoc Symposium,MIT, April 2012

• “The Last Eight-Billion Years of Intergalactic C IV and Si IV Evolution”

10. Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop 2011, Santa Cruz, CA, August 20119. The Cosmic Odyssey of the Baryons, Marseilles, France, June 20118. Gas in Galaxies: From Cosmic Web to Molecular Clouds, Kloster Seeon, Germany, June 20117. MKI Postdoc Symposium, April 2011

6. “The Cosmic Enrichment Cycle: Probing the Galaxy-IGM Boundary,” MKI Postdoc Symposium,MIT, March 2010

5. “The Last Eight-Billion Years of Intergalactic C IV Evolution,” The Chemical Enrichment of theIntergalactic Medium, Leiden, the Netherlands, May 2009

4. “Metals in the Low-redshift Universe: From Galaxies to the Intergalactic Medium,” 213th Meetingof the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, California, January 2009 (dissertation-year talk)

3. “Properties of Metal-line Absorption Systems and Their Neighboring Galaxies,” The Cosmic Odysseyof the Elements, Aegina, Greece, June 2008

2. “Metal-Line System Survey: Characterizing the Low-z IGM,” Space Astronomy: The UV Windowto the Universe, El Escorial, Spain, May 2007

1. “Gravitational-wave Signal Simulation for LIGO,” 16th National Conference of Undergraduate Re-search, U. of Wisconsin–Whitewater, April 2002

Public Lectures:

5. “The Universe in Absorption,” UH Hilo Faculty Lecture Series, 15 July 2015• “Is Science a Meritocracy?: Issues of Diversity & Equity”

4. American Association of Undergraduate Women, Hilo branch, 21 January 2015 (invited)3. UH Hilo Department of Physics & Astronomy, 23 October 2014

• “The Universe in Absorption”

2. The Universe Tonight series, Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station, 4 October 20141. What Physicists Do series, Sonoma State University, CA, 15 October 2012 (invited)

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Articles:

18. Glidden, A.,∗ Cooper, T. J.,† Cooksey, K. L. + 2. “Predominantly Low Metallicities Measured ina Stratified Sample of Lyman Limit Systems at z = 3.7,” 2016, submitted to ApJ, arXiV:1604.02144

17. Cooper, T. J.,† Simcoe, R. A., Cooksey, K. L. + 2. “The Incidence of Low-Metallicity Lyman-LimitSystems at z ∼ 3.5: Implications for the Cold-Flow Hypothesis of Baryonic Accretion,” 2015, ApJ,812, 58

16. Crighton, N. H. M., Hennawi, J. F., Simcoe, R. A., Cooksey, K. L. + 4. “Metal-enriched, Sub-kiloparsec Gas Clumps in the Circumgalactic Medium of a Faint z = 2.5 Galaxy,” 2015, MNRAS,446, 18

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15. Gauthier, J.-R., Chen, H.-W., Cooksey, K. L. + 3. “Halo Masses of Mg II absorbers at z ∼ 0.5from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7,” 2014, MNRAS, 439, 342

14. Seyffert, E. N.,∗ Cooksey, K. L. + 4. “Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra II. Tracking theEvolution of Strong, 0.4 < z < 2.3 Mg II Absorbers with Thousands of Systems,” 2013, ApJ, 779,161

13. Cucchiara, A., Prochaska, J. X., Zhu, G., Menard, B., Fynbo, J. P. U., Fox, D. B., Chen, H.-W.,Cooksey, K. L. + 9. “An Independent Measurement of the Incidence of Mg II Absorbers alongGamma-Ray Burst Sightlines: the End of the Mystery?” 2013, ApJ, 773, 82

12. Matejek, M. S.,† Simcoe, R. A., Cooksey, K. L. + 1. “Mg II Absorption at 2 < z < 6 withMagellan / FIRE. II: A Longitudinal Study of H I, Metals, and Ionization in Galactic Haloes,” 2013,ApJ, 764, 9

11. Cooksey, K. L. + 4. “Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra I. Tracking the Evolution of Strong,1.5 < z < 4.5 C IV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems,” 2013, ApJ, 763, 37

10. Simcoe, R. A., Sullivan, P.,† Cooksey, K. L. + 3. “Extremely Metal-Poor Gas at a Redshift ofz = 7,” 2012, Nature, 492, 79

9. Simcoe, R. A., Cooksey, K. L. + 10. “Constraints on the Universal C IV Mass Density at z ∼ 6from Early IR Spectra Obtained with the Magellan FIRE Spectrograph,” 2011, ApJ, 743, 21.

8. Prochaska, J. X., Weiner, B., Chen, H.-W., Mulchaey, J. S., & Cooksey, K. L. “Probing theIGM/Galaxy Connection V: Associating Galaxies and Their Local Environments with Lyα and O VI

Absorption at z < 0.2,” 2011, ApJ, 740, 917. Prochaska, J. X., Weiner, B., Chen, H.-W., Cooksey, K. L. + 1. “Probing the IGM/Galaxy

Connection IV: The LCO/WFCCD Galaxy Survey of 20 Fields Surrounding UV Bright Quasars,”2011, ApJS, 193, 28

6. Cooksey, K. L. + 3. “The Last Eight-Billion Years of Intergalactic Si IV Evolution,” 2011, ApJ,729, 87

5. Cooksey, K. L. + 3. “The Last Eight-Billion Years of Intergalactic C IV Evolution,” 2010, ApJ,708, 868

4. Lehner, N., Prochaska, J. X., Kobulnicky, H. A., Cooksey, K. L.† + 3. “The Connection Betweena Lyman Limit System, a Very Strong O VI Absorber, and Galaxies at z ∼ 0.203,” 2009, ApJ, 694,734

3. Cooksey, K. L.† + 4. “Characterizing the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium towards PKS1302–102,” 2008, ApJ, 676, 262

2. Alcala, J. M., Wachter, S., Covino, E., Sterzik, M. F., Durisen, R. H., Freyberg, M. J., Hoard, D. W.,& Cooksey, K.† “Multi-wavelength Observations of the Star-forming Region in L1616,” 2004, A&A,516, 677

1. Day, A., Layden, A. C., Hoard, D. W., Brammer, G.,∗ Cooksey, K.∗ + 4. “Light and Color Curvesof Six Field RR Lyrae Variable Stars,” 2002, PASP, 114, 645

Monograph:

1. Cooksey, K. L.† “Probing the Chemical Composition of the z < 1 Intergalactic Medium withObservations and Simulations,” 2009,http://guavanator.uhh.hawaii.edu/~kcooksey/MLSS/thesis kcooksey pub.pdf (Ph.D. thesis)

Conference Proceedings:

4. Cooksey, K. L. + 5. “The CfAO’s Astronomy Course in COSMOS: Curriculum Design, Rationale,and Application,” 2010, ASPCS, 436, 381 (also arXiv:1011.0752)

3. Quan, T. K., Dorighi, K. M., & Cooksey, K. L. “Astrobiology: Identifying Bacteria from ExtremeEnvironments,” 2010, ASPCS, 436, 264

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2. Cooksey, K. L.† & Prochaska, J. X. “Metal-line System Survey: Characterizing the Low-redshiftIGM,” 2008, Ap&SS, 320, 31

1. Alcala, J. M., Covino, E., Wachter, S., Hoard, D. W., Sterzik, M. F., Durisen, R. H., Freyberg, M. J.,& Cooksey, K.∗ “X-ray and Optical Observations of NGC1788,” 2003, ASPCS, 287, 140

Other:

1. Cooksey, K. L. “I!mposter: Understanding, Discussing, and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome,”SPECTRUM, the AAS Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy newsletter, January2014, http://csma.aas.org/spectrum files/spectrum Jan14.pdf

GRANTS and OBSERVING PROPOSALS

• University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Research Council Travel Award 2016 to From Wall to Web ($2200)• Co-I, Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 24 (2016): “Birth of the Cool: Galaxies and their Neighborhoods

Approaching the Epoch of Reionization” (PI: R. Simcoe; 20 orbits, declined)• Co-I, Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 24 (2016): “COS Ultraviolet Baryon Explorer (COS UBER)”

(PI: H.-W. Chen; 359 orbits, declined)• PI, National Science Foundation Astrophysics Research Grant (AAG 12-589) through Research in

Undergraduate Institutions (RUI 14-579): “RUI/AAG—Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra:Observing Galaxy Evolution in Absorption”

– 2015: AST-1615296; 3 yr, $138,300 (Excellent and Excellent/Very Good preliminary ratings)– 2014: 3 yr, $195,518; declined (Excellent and Very Good)

• PI, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Seed Money Grant (2014): “Observing Galaxy Evolution in Ab-sorption” (1 yr, $11,565)

• PI, University of Hawai‘i observing time, semesters 2014B (2 n UH88, 3 n Subaru, 1.5 n Keck II),2015A (2 n Keck II), 2015B (1 n Keck I), 2016A (1 n Keck I), 2016B (0.5 n Keck I, 0.5 n Keck II)

• Co-I, Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 21 (2013): “The Structure of Mg II Absorbing Galaxies at z = 2:Linking CGM Physics and Stellar Morphology During Galaxy Assembly” (PI: R. Simcoe; GO-13303;27 orbits)

• Co-I, HST Cycle 19 (2011): “Probing the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium using Weak, DistributedMetal Absorption” (PI: M. Pieri; AR-12643)

• PI, Magellan Clay 6.5-m Telescope, semesters 2009B (3 n), 2010A (2 n), 2010B (2.25 n), 2011A (2.7 n),2012A (24 hr), 2012B (8 hr), 2013A (2 n)

• Co-I, Magellan Baade & Clay 6.5-m Telescopes, semesters 2010B (8.5 n), 2012A (8 n), 2013A (2 n)• PI, National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010: “Seeking

the Lost Interstellar Medium of Red-Sequence Galaxies” (AST-1003139; 3 yr, $253,000)

SERVICE

• Optical/Infrared/Submillimeter Time Allocation Committee, University of Hawai‘i: 2015–2018• University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Seed Money Grant proposal reviewer: 2015• Hubble Space Telescope proposal-review panelist: Cycles 19 (2011); 21 (2013); 22 (2014); 24 (2016;

external reviewer)• National Science Foundation proposal-review panelist: 2013 (2 panels); 2014 (1)• The Astrophysical Journal Supplement referee: 2015 (1 article)• The Astrophysical Journal referee: 2011 (1 article), 2012 (1), 2016 (1)• Kavli in Astrophysics Symposium delegate for MIT Kavli Institute, 15–18 July 2012, Kavli Royal

Society International Centre at Chicheley Hall, UK

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• NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows Symposium co-organizer, 7–8 January 2012,Austin, TX

• MIT Kavli Institute morning coffee founder and organizer, 2010–2012• MIT Kavli Institute Postdoc Symposium co-organizer, 13–15 April 2011

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop, 23–26 June 2014: training in active-learning tech-niques, with attention to education research; organized by American Association of Physics Teachers

• ISEE/Akamai Mentor Workshop, 25–26 April 2014: develop plan for projects and learn/discussmentoring-related issues in preparation for Akamai Workforce Initiative interns; organized Institutefor Scientist and Engineer Educators, UC Santa Cruz

• Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers VIII, 4–8 June 2012: overview of statistics as appliedin astronomy, with hands-on training in R statistics software; organized by Center for Astrostatistics,Pennsylvania State University

• Center for Adaptive Optics Professional Development Workshop, 2004–2008; trained in inquiry-basedteaching methods, assumed advanced roles in 2005–2008 to help teach other participants; organizedby (now) ISEE, UC Santa Cruz

• Heidelberg Summer School on the Interstellar Medium, 25–29 September 2006: series of lecturesand training activities pertaining to research in the gas in galaxies; organized by International MaxPlanck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, University of Heidelberg

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• American Astronomical Society: junior member 2001–2013; full 2014–present• Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society, 2002–present

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CURRICULUM VITÆ

Philippe Binder

Current position (since 2008): Professor of Physics, with tenure

(since 2015): Lead Faculty, Energy Science program

Address: College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management

University of Hawaii at Hilo

Hilo, HI 96720-4091, USA

Tel.: (808) 932-7196

E-mail: [email protected]

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (High Distinction), University of Virginia

B.S. in Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Hilo

M.A. in Liberal Arts, St. John's College at Santa Fe

Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Yale University

Funding at UH Hilo

-Determinism tests and external forcing in chaotic systems, Research Corporation, Cottrell

College Science Award CC5885, 2003-2008 ($36,200, PI).

-Effects of invasive species, human activities and climate change on Hawaii, NSF EPSCoR

Grant EPS-0903833, 2009-2014 ($20,000,000 approx., Senior Personnel)

-Knowledge extraction from massive graphs, Spanish Center for Technological and Industrial

Development (CDTI), through InnoQuant Analytics LLC, 2016 ($16,900, PI)

Professional Employment

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK, 1990-1993

Physics Faculty, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1995-2001

Physics Faculty, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 2001-present

Other professional experience

Member of the Editorial Board, Complexity, 1996-1997

Referee for Physical Review/Letters, 1995-present

Referee for American Journal of Physics, 1999-present

Referee for CHAOS, 2001-present

External Evaluator, Colombian Accreditation Board for Universities (CNA), 2000-2001

Distinctions:

Biographee, Who’s Who in America, since 2007

Biographee, Who’s Who in the World, since 2008


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Named species: Neostrengeria binderi (fresh-water crab)

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities (UH Hilo), 2009

Taniguchi Award for Excellence in Innovation (UH Hilo) for work on 3-dimensional

visualization, 2013

Visiting Positions

Graduate Student, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1986-1989

Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, American University in Cairo (Egypt), 1989

Visiting Scientist, INPE (Brazilian National Institute for Space Research), 1997

Visiting Faculty, Department of Physics, University of Washington at Seattle, 2000

Visiting Colleague, Department of Physics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, ongoing since 2003

Faculty Scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, U. of California, Santa Barbara, 2006

Visiting Professor, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas, Austin, 2008

Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Cape Town (South Africa), 2015

Teaching

University of Oxford (Tutor at St. Hilda's and Magdalen Colleges) 1990-1992:

Solid-State Physics; Theory Option: classical, quantum and statistical mechanics; Foundations of

Special Relativity; Philosophy of Quantum Theory.

Universidad de Los Andes, 1995-2001:

Four-semester calculus-based physics sequence; Two-semester algebra-based physics sequence;

Physics for biology, Physics for industrial design, Physics Laboratory 1 and 2; Thermal physics;

Statistical mechanics; Mathematical methods; Computational physics; Electromagnetism;

Contemporary philosophy of science; Intermediate laboratory (one 4-week module); Chaos for

science majors; Chaos as a general elective.

University of Hawaii at Hilo, 2001-present (Boldface: courses I introduced.)

Physics for the Liberal Arts, Conceptual Quantum Mechanics, Physics 1-2 (algebra-based);

Physics 1-2 (calculus-based); Experimental Physics 1-2; Modern Physics; Classical Mechanics;

Quantum Mechanics 1-2; Thermodynamics; Electromagnetism; Chaos; Mathematical Physics;

Optics, Foundations of Quantum Theory, Computational Astronomy and Physics, Electronics,

Foundations of Statistical Physics; General Astronomy Laboratory; Archaeoastronomy

Seminar, Introduction to Energy Science.

Research Supervision

Peer-reviewed articles published with 11 undergraduate students at Universidad de Los Andes,

and 30 undergraduates and one post-doctoral fellow at the University of Hawaii. Former research

advisees have enrolled in graduate programs at U. of Bonn (Germany), Duke, École Nationale

des Sciences Géographiques (France), Florida State, Georgia Tech, Harvard, U. of Hawaii at

Manoa, London School of Economics, MIT, Michigan, Missouri, New York University, U. of

Oldenburg (Germany), Penn State, U. of Texas, U. of Toronto, U. of Washington and Virginia

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Administrative Experience

University of Hawaii:

Faculty Search Committees (multiple); Member of UH Hilo Faculty Congress (8 semesters) and

of the Congress Executive Committee, General Education Standing Committee (chaired);

Division Personnel and Tenure and Promotion Review Committees (multiple), and a Campus

Awards Committee (chaired). Physics & Astronomy department chair for a total of 8 semesters.

Other Department Service

2005: Single-handedly prepared Physics Program Review for WASC. Document was approved

unanimously by the department before submission.

2007: Administered the Major Field Test in Physics and produced a report for the department

and the administration.

2013-2014: Led a 3-person team for 15-months to upgrade the Intro Physics Lab curriculum.

More than half of 22 experiments were replaced or improved for better alignment with lecture

topics, manuals were rewritten for clarity and more accurate physics content, almost 50

introductory videos were produced to avoid lengthy pre-lab lectures and to illustrate procedures

on demand, several innovations resulted in publications (4 so far, two more conditionally

accepted) and two team members (other than myself) won Taniguchi Awards.

2013-2014: Chaired a curriculum committee for the physics program that established learning

outcomes for every required physics course in the major. The document was approved for

subsequent use by the physics and astronomy department. Recommendations were made for the

creation of two new courses in the major. These were not adopted by the department.

Multiple dates: Conducted several Physics GRE diagnostic, review and practice sessions for our

graduating seniors or recent graduates, lasting between 2 and 6 months each.

Leadership Training

University of Hawaii Presidential Emerging Leaders Program, 2009-2010

Event organization

-Organizer, One-day International Workshop on Complex Systems, January 25th, 2000: 40

participants (held in Bogotá, Colombia)

-Program Committee, International Conference on Complex Systems: 2002, 2004, 2007 and

2011; Session Chair in 2007 and 2011 (held in Quincy, MA)

-Program Committee and Session Chair, Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena

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Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics; Statistical mechanics; Complex systems; Time series analysis;

Computational theory of physical processes; Biologically-inspired physics; Physics Education.

Media coverage (excluding local press)

J. Rehmeyer, A frustrating view of complexity. Science News (Math Trek column),

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frustrating-view-complexity, October 2008.

T. Phillips, The diagonalization of physics. Math in the Media (an American Mathematical

Society web page), http://www.ams.org/news/math-in-the-media/mmarc-11-2008-media#two,

November 2008.

E. DeMarco. How do giraffes drink water? Inside Science: insidescience.org/content/how-do-

giraffes-drink-water/3616, February 2016; also posted as How do giraffes defy gravity?

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2016/02/02/how_do_giraffes_defy_gravity_109528.ht

ml, February 2016

C. Clark, How giraffes drink. Etosha National Park (Namibia) News,

http://www.etoshanationalpark.org/news/how-giraffes-drink, February 2016.

Book

P.-M. Binder and K. Smith (Editors). The Language Phenomenon: Human Communication from

Milliseconds to Millennia. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. ISBN 978-3-642-36085-5 (over 11,000

chapter downloads).

Journal Covers

The Physics Teacher: December 2015 (based on below)

European Journal of Physics: September 2016 (based on § below)

Indexed Publications

70+ articles indexed in ISI Web of Science.


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Selected peer-reviewed articles:

Most influential papers, prior to joining UH Hilo

P.M. Binder and R.V. Jensen, “Simulating chaotic behavior with finite-state machines”, Physical

Review A 34, 4460-3 (1986).

M.H. Ernst, G.A. van Velzen and P.M. Binder, “Breakdown of the Boltzmann equation in

cellular-automata lattice gases”, Physical Review A 39, 4327-9 (1989).

P.M. Binder, A.L. Owczarek, A.R. Veal and J.M. Yeomans, “Collapse transition in a simple

polymer model: exact results”, Journal of Physics A 23, L975-9 (1990).

P.M. Binder, “Limit cycles in a quadratic discrete iteration”, Physica D 57, 31-8 (1992).

P.M. Binder and V. Privman, “Second-order dynamics in the collective temporal evolution of

complex systems”, Physical Review Letters 68, 3830-3 (1992).

P.M. Binder and N. Perry, “Comment II on ‘Simple measure for complexity’ ”, Physical Review

E 62, 2998-9 (2000). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.2998

Papers with undergraduate co-authors, prior to joining UH Hilo

P.M. Binder and D.H. Campos, “Direct calculation of invariant measures for chaotic maps”,

Physical Review E 53, R4259-62 (1996). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.56.2276

P.M. Binder and J.F. Jaramillo, “Stabilization of coherent oscillations in spatially extended

dynamical systems”, Physical Review E 56, 2276-8 (1997). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/

PhysRevE.56.2276

P.M. Binder and J.C. Idrobo, “Invertibility of dynamical systems in granular phase space”,

Physical Review E 58, 7987-9 (1998). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.58.7987

P.M. Binder and D. Laverde, “Observation of structure in the Lorenz map”, Chaos 9, 206-7

(1999). doi: 10.1063/1.166391

N. Perry and P.M. Binder, “Finite statistical complexity for sofic systems”, Physical Review E

60, 459-63 (1999). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.60.459

P.M. Binder, P. Sinisterra and F. Esguerra, “The five-legged table”, The Physics Teacher 37, 360

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P.M. Binder, J.M. Pedraza and S. Garzón, “An invertibility paradox”, American Journal of

Physics 67, 1091-3 (1999). doi: 10.1119/1.19087

P.M. Binder and J.A. Plazas, “Multiscale analysis of complex systems”, Physical Review E 63,

065203(R) (2001). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.065203.

P.M. Binder and C.A. Wilches, “Absence of determinism in El Niño Southern Oscillation”,

Physical Review E 65, 055207(R) (2002). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.055207.

Most influential papers written at UH Hilo without student co-authors

P.M. Binder, “Frustration in Complexity”, Science 320, 322-323 (2008).

doi: 10.1126/science.1156940

P.M. Binder, “Theories of almost everything”, Nature 455, 884-885 (2008).

doi: 10.1038/455884a

P.M. Binder, “Reflections on a wall of light”, Science 332, 1334-1335 (2008).

doi: 10.1126/science.1166681

P.M. Binder, “The edge of reductionism”, Nature 459, 332-334 (2009).

doi: 10.1038/459332a

P.M. Binder and A. Danchin, “Life’s demons: Information and order in biology”, EMBO

Reports 12, 495-499 (2011). doi:10.1038/embor.2011.83

P.M. Binder and D.L. Taylor, “How giraffes drink”, The Physics Teacher, 53, 518-520 (2015).

doi: 10.1119/1.4935758

P.M. Binder and G.F.R. Ellis, “Nature, Computation and Complexity”, Physica Scripta 91,

064004 (2016). doi:10.1088/0031-8949/91/6/064004

Papers written at UH Hilo with undergraduate co-authors (as primary advisor)

P.M. Binder and N.H. Okamoto, “Unstable periodic orbits and discretization cycles”, Physical

Review E, 68, 046206 (2003). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.046206

P.M. Binder, M. Iaukea-Lum and N.G. Purves, “The Poynting-Robertson effect”, The Physics

Teacher 42 (1) 119-121 (2004). doi: 10.1119/1.1646489.

P.M. Binder, R. Igarashi, W. Seymour and C. Takeishi, “Determinism test for very short time

series”, Physical Review E 71, 036219 (2005). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.036219.


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P.M. Binder, I.J.Crosson and R.R. Cadmus Jr., “Dynamics and forecasting of two chaotic stars”,

Astrophysical Journal Letters 685, L145-L148 (2008). doi: 10.1086/592745

I.J. Crosson and P.-M. Binder, “Chaos-based forecasting of sunspot cycle 24”, Journal of

Geophysical Research 114, A01108 (2009); doi:10.1029/2008JA013859.

B.D. Wissman, L.C. MacKay-Jones and P.M. Binder, “Entropy rate estimates from mutual

information”, Physical Review E 84, 046204 (2011). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.046204

A. Richert and P.M. Binder, “Siphons, revisited”, The Physics Teacher 49 (2) 78-80 (2011). doi:

10.1119/1.3543576.

P.M. Binder and I.M. Cunnyngham, “The shadow knows: Inferring the density distribution of a

nonuniform medium from its standing wave pattern,” The Physics Teacher 50 (5), 266 (2012).

doi: 10.1119/1.3703538.

P.M. Binder and C.K.S. Tanoue, “Variations on the zilch cycle,” The Physics Teacher 51 (7),

434-436 (2013). doi: 10.1119/1.4820862.

P.M. Binder and R.M. Pipes, “How chaos forgets and remembers”, Nature 510, 343-344 (2014).

doi:10.1038/510343a

§P.M. Binder, R.M. Figueroa-Centeno, K.J. Hui and K.M. Schlechter, “High-density electric

potential plots”, European Journal of Physics 36, 035029 (2015). doi:10.1088/0143-

0807/36/3/035029

P.M. Binder and M.A. Magowan, “The buoyancy approach to U-tube problems”, The Physics

Teacher, 54, 106-107 (2016). doi: 10.1119/1.4940175

P.M. Binder, A.L. Grace, K.J. Hui and R.K. Loving, “Magnetic field in the plane of a physical

dipole”, European Journal of Physics 37, 045203 (2016). doi:10.1088/0143-0807/37/4/045203

P.M. Binder, F. Cross and J.K. Silva, “Forces and torques between nonintersecting straight

currents”, European Journal of Physics 37, 045206 (2016). doi:10.1088/0143-0807/37/4/045206

P.M. Binder, E.M. Holub, M.F. Roberts and V.K. Wasser, “Faraday induction when a loop

grazes a magnet”, Physics Education 51, 043004 (2016). doi:10.1088/0031-9120/51/4/043004

P.M. Binder and J.F. Guerrero, “Theory of grazing electromagnetic induction”, European Journal

of Physics (conditionally accepted).

P.M. Binder, R.B. Tate and C.K. Crowder, “Which dipole are you studying in lab?”, European

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Papers written at UH Hilo with undergraduate co-authors (not as primary advisor)

A. Baran et al. (31 authors including P.M. Binder, A. Dye, J. Stevick, S. Stewart and D. Terry),

“The pulsating hot subdwarf Balloon 090100001: results of the 2005 multisite campaign”,

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 392, 1092-1105 (2009). doi:

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14024.x

J.L. Provencal et al. (55 authors including P.M. Binder and R. Knight), “2006 Whole Earth

Telescope observations of GD358: A new look at the prototype DBV”, Astrophysical Journal

693, 564-585 (2009). doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/1/564

M.D. Reed et al. (61 authors including P.M. Binder, D. Terry, R. Avila, B. Berkey, S. Stewart

and D. Bolton), “Whole Earth Telescope observations of the subdwarf B star KPD 1930+2752:

A rich, short-period pulsator in a close binary,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical

Society 412, 371-390 (2011). doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17912.x.

Recent Presentations in International Meetings

Scenarios for the Future of a Remote Island (with M. Kimura, post-doctoral fellow). Frontiers in

Computational Physics: Modeling the Earth System. Boulder, CO, December 2012.

Simulations of Societal Collapse in the Island of Hawaii (with M. Kimura, post-doctoral fellow).

Tenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.

Split, Croatia, January 2014.

A Survey of Complexity: Computability, Frustration and Representation. XIV Latin American

Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena. Cartagena, Colombia, September 2015 (Inaugural

PlenaryTalk).


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2 7 - 9 8 5 O L D M A M A L A H O A H I G H W A Y • P E P E E K E O , H A W A I ' I • 9 6 7 8 3

P H O N E ( 8 0 8 ) 9 6 4 - 5 3 6 5 • F A X ( 8 0 8 ) 9 6 4 - 5 3 6 5 • E - M A I L J H A M I L T O N @ G E M I N I . E D U

J O H N C A R L H A M I L T O N

CURRENT POSITIONS Instructor

Manager,

Education/Public Outreach & Test Logistics

Department of Physics and Astronomy Natural Sciences Division College of Arts & Sciences University of Hawai’i – Hilo (UHH) 200 West Kawili Street Hilo, Hawaiì 96720 Pacific International Center for Space Explorations Systems (PISCES) Dept. of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) State of Hawaiì 99 Aupuni Street, Suite 212-213 Hilo, Hawaiì 96720

2 7 - 9 8 5 O L D M A M A L A H O A H I G H W A Y

P E P E E K E O , H A W A I ' I

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SUMMARY OF TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS 2009 July 2003-present

University of California Santa Cruz, Center for Adaptive Optics Akamai Observatory Internship Program – Short Course Hilo, Hawai`i

University of Hawai'i – Hilo Hilo, Hawai`i Department of Physics & Astronomy Instructor Courses taught: ASTR 110 – Introductory Astronomy (non-Majors) ASTR 110L – Laboratory for ASTR 110 & ASTR 180/181 ASTR 150 – Life In The Universe ASTR 180 – Principles of Astronomy: Solar System (Majors) ASTR 181 – Principles of Astronomy: Stars & Stellar Systems (Majors) ASTR 250L – Observational Astronomy Lab ASTR 352 / GEOL 353 - Comparative Planetology ASTR 400 – Observatory Internship ASTR 494 – Special Topics: Astro-Chemistry ASTR/CHEM/GEOL/MATH/PHYS 495A/495B – Physical Science

Seminar ASTR/PHYS 495A/495B – Seminar in Space Science ASTR 496 – Space Studies Seminar ASTR 399V,499V – Directed Research ED 494 – Special Topic – Astronomy Teachers Excellence Workshop PHYS 115 – Physics for Liberal Arts PHYS 106 – General Physics I: Mechanics (Algebra-based) PHYS 107 – General Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism (Algebra-

based) PHYS 170 – General Physics I: Mechanics(Calculus-based) PHYS 172 – General Physics I: Mechanics (Calculus-based for Majors) PHYS 170L – General Physics Laboratory I for PHYS 106, 170 & 172 PHYS 171 – General Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism (Calculus-

based) PHYS 173 – General Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism (Calculus-

based for Majors) PHYS 171L – General Physics Laboratory II for PHYS 107, 171 & 173 PHYS 299v – Directed Studies PHYS 330 – Electromagnetism PHYS 399V, 499V – Directed Studies


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2005 Summer 2004 Summer 2004 Fall 2002 Spring 1979 Summer 1977 – 1978 1982-2003 2000-2003

Na Pua No’eau – “From Baseballs to Blackholes” 3 Week Residential Course for Native Hawaiian High School

Keaholoa – “Nānā Pono ko kakou Honua – Observing Our World; The Physics-Math Connection” 4 Week Intensive Course for Keaholoa STEM Program

Kamehameha Schools East Hawaii Campus, High School Substitute Physics/Astronomy Teacher University of Hawai'i - Hilo Hilo, Hawai'i Lecturer - Astronomy 110 – Introductory Astronomy

University of Hawai'i - Mānoa Honolulu, Hawai'i Lecturer - Physics 100 – Introductory Physics for Non-Science Majors

University of Hawai'i - Mānoa Honolulu, Hawai'i Instructor for Physics 100L – Introductory Physics Laboratory for Non-Science Majors

Training of Telescope Operators at IRTF, CFHT and Gemini. Training of staff on Laser Cutting Operation and Safety – Gemini Training of staff on Bar-Code technology, Database management, Data

Archiving, Training of staff on troubleshooting and emergency repair. Training of staff on Safety and Rescue


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DEGREES, CERTIFICATES & POST-DEGREE COURSES

2006 Spring 2001 1999 1999 1977-1979 1973-1977 1973-1977 1972-1978 1969-1973

PHYS 711/ASTR 736 Topics in Particle & Fields: Particle Astrophysics University of Hawaii – Mānoa (Grade= A)

Certificate: Industrial Control Software Repair & Operation, Acroloop Motion Control Systems Inc, Chaska MN (www.acroloop.com/

Certificate: Laser Class IV Operator & Trainer, ART (Advanced Recording Technology),

) for Gemini Observatories Laser Milling Machine / GMOS (Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph)

Escondido, CA (www.advancedrecording.com/

Certificate: First Responder, American Red Cross/Hawaii Fire Department

) for Gemini Observatories Laser Milling Machine / GMOS (Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph)

University of Hawai’i - Mānoa Honolulu, Hawai'i Master of Science (M.S.) – Astronomy Department of Physics & Astronomy / Institute For Astronomy

University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors in Physics Department of Physics

University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors in Astronomy Department of Astronomy

University of Hawai’i – Mānoa Honolulu, Hawai'i Evening and Summer sessions concurrent with High School

`Aiea High School `Aiea, Hawai'i High School Diploma State of Hawai'i Department of Education


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WORK EXPERIENCE 2013-present 2012-2013 2010-Fall – 2012 2008 Spring - 2010 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2003 – present 1998 – 2003 1983 – 1998

Manager, Education Public Outreach and Test Logistics – Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)

Acting Director – Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)

Deputy Director – Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) In charge of Hawaii operations for all PISCES activities – research, education and outreach. Coordinates with national and international space agencies (NASA, CSA, DLR, ESA), universities (UHM, CMU) and aerospace (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin), robotic (Honeybee, NORCAT) and information technology (Google) corporations.

Research Operations Manager – Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) Responsible for the complete deployment of a Field Test Site for NASA, CSA and DLR, including budget, purchases, infrastructure, recruitment and hiring, on site management, assessment, inventory and storage of experiments and equipment. Total budgets (less salaries) $240K (2008), $155K (2010)

Interim Associate Director – Hoku Kea (1 Meter Telescope Project) Assist with NSF grant for construction of 1 meter replacement telescope on Mauna Kea. Software development, student training

Interim Department Chair – Department of Physics & Astronomy Manage budget and personnel (6 faculty/1 APT), schedule classes, report to UHH Administration.

University of Hawai’i – Hilo – Department of Physics & Astronomy Instructor Conduct instruction in Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate classes. Active participation in Outreach with Astro-Talks, Onizuka Day, Astro-

Day, County Fair, Journey Through The Universe

Gemini Observatory Hilo, Hawai’i System Support Associate Science staff member responsible for the safe and efficient operation of 8.0-

meter telescope on summit of Mauna Kea. Also operate 8.0-meter telescope on Cerro Pachon, Chile during annual exchange program. Responsible for safety of all personnel at night. Duties included assisting staff & visiting astronomers in use of instruments, weather monitoring, cryogenic transfers, and training of new operator staff (7).

Canada-France-Hawai’i Telescope Corp. (CFHT) Kamuela, Hawai’i Senior Observing Asst. / Observing Asst. / Telescope Operator Science staff member responsible for the safe and efficient operation of 3.8-

meter telescope on summit of Mauna Kea and safety of all personnel at night. Duties included training and assisting visiting astronomers in use of instruments, weather monitoring, cryogenic transfers, and training of new operator staff (4).


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1982 – 1983 1981 – 1982 1980 – 1981 1980 – 1981 1979 – 1980 1977 – 1979 1974 – 1977

NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) Hilo, Hawai’i Telescope Operator Technical staff member responsible for the safe & efficient operation of 3.0-

meter telescope on summit of Mauna Kea. Responsible for safety of all personnel at night. Duties included cryogenic (LN & LHe) transfers, weather monitoring, program observing (comets), training of new operator staff (2).

Univ. Hawai’i Lunar Ranging Experiment (LURE) Kula, Maui, Hawai’i Research Associate IV / III Member of 4-person team using high-powered lasers to distance range a variety

of satellites for the purposes of updating the geo-metrodynamic model of the earth’s gravitational field.

Wailea Beach Hotel Wailea, Maui, Hawai’i Public Lecturer Led astronomy lecture and stargazing activities for hotel guests and general

public with a variety of portable telescopes.

Univ. Hawai’i Mees Solar Observatory Kula, Maui, Hawai’i Research Associate II / I Solar observer (solo) with data collection and analysis of real-time data for the

NASA Solar Max satellite in coordination with worldwide ground support. Duties included film handling and developing methods, optics cleaning, and detailed record keeping.

Univ. Hawai’i-Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) Honolulu, Hawai’i Graduate Research Assistant Assisted in various astronomical observations and data reduction on NASA

IRTF 3.0m, UH 2.24m and both UH 0.6m telescopes on Mauna Kea. Assembled and optimized cryo-dewar in Infrared Lab and manufactured custom 30-micron IR filter.

Univ. Hawai’i-Mānoa Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Honolulu, Hawai’i Graduate Teaching Assistant Taught Lab sections for PHY 100L – Physics for Non-Science Majors for four

semesters. Developed laboratory exercises, lectured on experiment background, assisted students in execution of experiments, graded lab reports. Taught PHY 100 lecture section during summer using the text Conceptual Physics

Univ. Texas at Austin Dept. of Astronomy Austin, Texas

- Hewitt. Led numerous stargazing parties for students.

Laboratory Research Assistant Organized and maintained the department astronomy library.


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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

2016 June 7-9 The 7th joint meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS). Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. June 7-9, 2016. Presented 3 papers.

2016 March 11-13 Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference (PTEC), Baltimore MD, March 11-13, 2017. Poster presentation.

2015 Dec 3 Polar Regolith (Workshop without Walls), NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), December 3, 2015.

2015 Oct 27-30 First Landing Site (LS)/Exploration Zone (EZ) Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX October 27-30, 2015. Presented two EZ sites.

2015 May 10-13 The 6th joint meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS). May 10-13, 2015 in conjunction with the Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM) 2015 Convention in Montreal, QC, Canada. Invited Session Chair as In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Expert

2014 June 10-11 The fifth joint meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium. Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado on June 10-11, 2014.

2013 May 5-8 The fourth joint meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium. May 5-8, 2013 in conjunction with the Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM) 2013 Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2013 Nov 4-7 International Society of Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS) 7th Regional Americas Conference, jointly with the105th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Tampa FL. November 4-7, 2013. 2012 June 4-7 The third joint meeting of the Thirteenth Space Resources Roundtable and

the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium. Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado on June 4-7, 2012.

2011 Nov 13-17 PISCES ILRP Leaders Summit, Kailua-Kona HI Invited speaker

2011 Nov 7-9 Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston TX – invited speaker

2011 Sept 6-10 Invited guest (by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden) for GRAIL mission Launch. Invited participant with Lunar Science Institute associated education outreach Kennedy Space Center, FL

2011 July 30-Aug 3 Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Annual Conference "Connecting People to Science" (with American Geophysical Union) - Baltimore MD

2011 July 19-21 Lunar Science Forum, NASA Lunar Science Institute, NASA Ames, Moffett Field CA


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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS (CONT.)

2011 July 21 ILRP Executive Workshop, NASA Ames, Moffett Field CA

2011 July 16-19 Teacher Excellence Workshop with Center for Astronomy Education, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. UH-Hilo, HI

2011 June 19-22 The second joint meeting of the Twelfth Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in June 19-22, 2011. – invited presenter

2011 May 25 NASA-Hawaii Space Act Annex – w/ Gov. Abercrombie – Hawaii and Rebecca Kaiser – NASA Asst Administrator – State Capitol, Honolulu HI

2011 April 5 Internation Lunar Research Park Exploratory Workshop, NASA Ames (invited keynote speaker) – NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA

2010 Feb 10-12 3rd

2009 Sept 12-16 Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), 120

Pacific International Center for Space Exploration Systems (PISCES) conference, Hilo HI

th

2009 May 8-12 Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators / Center for Adaptive Optics Professional Development Program (ISEE/ CfAO PDP) Inquiry Workshop in Science and Engineering Learning & Teaching, Lahaina HI

Anniversary Meeting, Millbrae CA

2009 Mar 13-14 Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC) Conference, Pittsburg PA PRESENTER – Creating Better Learning Environment for Physics Majors

2008 Sep 29-30 2nd

2008 June 5-8 NASA Combined Centers Robotic Field Test, Moses Lake WA


2008 June 1-5 American Astronomical Society, 212th

2008 May 31-Jun 4 Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 119

Meeting, St. Louis MO PRESENTER – Ashra Detector Status

th

2008 Feb 29 Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Astronomer Meeting, NASA Ames, CA

Meeting, St. Louis MO International Year of Astronomy Symposiums

2008 Jan 7-11 American Astronomical Association, 211th

2007 Nov 7-10 1

meeting, Austin, TX PRESENTER – Hoku Kea, UHH 1 Meter Educational Telescope

st

2007 Sept 27-28 Mauna Kea Observatories Users Meeting Keahou-Kona HI PRESENTER – UHH Hoku Kea Annual Report


2007 August 2-5 Cosmos in the Classroom – A National Symposium on Teaching Astronomy for Non-science Majors Pomona College Claremont CA


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2007 July 9-12 The 20th International Conference on The First-Year Experience Kona, Hawaii

2007 Mar 15-16 The 6th International Workshop on Very High Energy Particle Astronomy - Connection between Wide Field Survey and Cosmic Ray Observation Hilo HI (LOC member) PRESENTER

2006 Oct 29 – Nov 3 Joint Meeting of the Pacific Region Particle Physics Communities (American Physical Society – Division of Particle & Field/Japan Physical Society) APS-DPF2006+PJS2006 PRESENTER Honolulu HI

2006 July 17-21 The NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) 2006 College Astronomy Teaching Excellence Workshop: Advanced Strategies for Teaching Learner-Centered Astronomy Under Hawaiian Skies and The Great Observatories of Mauna Kea Kona HI

2005 May 10-12 3rd

2004 Oct KamLAND International Collaboration Meeting Hilo HI

International Ashra Conference Hilo HI (LOC member) PRESENTER

2004 Aug 23-24 2nd

2002 November 3-8 Galactic Center Workshop 2002 – The Central 300 Parsecs (LOC member) Kona HI

International Ashra Conference PRESENTER Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kashiwa Japan

2002 August 22-30 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) - Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Kona HI

2001 Sept 30 –Oct 3 Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XI (ADAS) Victoria BC Canada

2001 February 5-9 Astrophysical Ages & Time Scales Hilo HI

2000 March 25-31 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) – Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2000 Munich Germany

1998 March 20-28 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) - Astronomical Interferometetry II Kona HI

1997 August 18-30 International Astronomical Union (IAU) XXIII General Assembly Kyoto Japan

1994 May 15-16 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference on Amplitude & Intensity Interferometry II Kona

1994 March 13-18 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation for the 21st

1987 March 24-26 Workshop on Ground-based Astronomical Observations with Infrared Array Detectors Hilo, Hawaii

Century Kona HI


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1980 June 23-27 International Astronomical Union (IAU Symposium 96) – Infrared Astronomy (LOC staff) Kona HI


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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

2016 Field Deployment for NASA Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains (BASALT), Craters of the Moon, Idaho (June). Mars analogue

2016 Invited Judge, NASA Kennedy Space Center Robotic Mining Competition (RMC)

2015 PI for NASA Cooperative Agreement Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains (BASALT),

2015 Invited Judge, NASA Kennedy Space Center Robotic Mining Competition (RMC)

2014 Invited Judge, NASA Kennedy Space Center Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) 2013 Invited Judge, NASA Kennedy Space Center Lunabotics Mining Competition

2011 PI on NASA Cooperative Agreement for Analog Mission Testing

2008 Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)/ NASA ISRU Robotic Field Test researcher

2008 Taiwan American Occultation Survey (TAOS) research collaborator

2008 American Astronomical Society (AAS) - Member

2007 Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) – Member

2006 International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA)- Member

2006 Collaborative member of PanSTARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) 2005-present Mauna Kea Observatories Outreach Committee (MKOOC) – UHH Representative

2004 June 8 Transit of Venus expedition – Orlando FL Organized and successfully completed field observations of the first pair of rare Transits of Venus (nest in 2012) 2004-present Collaborative member of Ashra (All-sky Survey High Resolution A

2004-2006 Co-I, Michelson Educational Award, "Curricular Enhancements in Exo-Planet Theory and Observation", $72K; (w/ W. D. Heacox, R. A. Crowe); awarded by the Michelson Science Center at California Institute of Technology.

ir shower detector) University of Tokyo - Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and UH-Hilo Dept of Physics & Astronomy

1998-2003 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) – Member

1990 July 11 Total Solar Eclipse expedition Waimea HI Expedition Leader Organized & outfitted 5-person team and successfully completed field observations of the Total Solar Eclipse of 1990

1979 Feb 26 Total Solar Eclipse Expedition Dufor, Oregon Expedition Co-Leader O i d fi d 5 d f ll l d fi ld b i f h


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PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

(in preparation)

Published or Presented

Scientific Analogs and the Development of Human Mission Architectures for the Moon, Deep Space and Mars. Lim, Darlene et. al.. American Geophysical Union, Fall AGU San Francisco, CA 12-16 December, 2016. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journey to Mars with ISRU Pathway. John Hamilton, Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS), Golden CO June 2016 MoonRIDERS: NASA and Hawaii Lunar Surface Flight Experiment for Late 2017 in ISRU Dust Removal Technologies. R Kelso, J. Hamilton Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS), Golden CO June 2016 PISCES: Paving the Way to Planetary Basalt ISRU Construction - Lunar Launch/Landing Pad. R. M. Kelso, R.Romo, C. Andersen, R.P. Mueller, T. Lippitt, N.J. Gelino, J.D. Smith, I. I. Townsend, J.M. Schuler, M.W. Nugent, A.J. Nick, K. Zacny, M. Hedlund, J. Hamilton. Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS), Golden CO June 2016 Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrain. N. Thomas, J. Hamilton, A. Veillet and C. Muir. Bio-signature Preservation and Detection in Mars Analog Environments, Lake Tahoe, May 16-18, 2016. Survival in Extreme Environments: Physics Program at the University of Hawai`i - Hilo. Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference (PTEC), Baltimore MD, March 11-13, 2017

Hawai'i Ice Caves as Analogs to Perpetually Shadowed Craters Polar Regolith (Workshop Without Walls), NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), December 3, 2015.

Formation of a Phyllosilicate-, K-feldspar-, and Sulfate-Bearing Hematite Ridge on Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii, Under Hydrothermal, Acid-Sulfate Conditions: Process and Mineralogical Analog for the Hematite Ridge on Mt. Sharp, Gale Crater, Mars. RV Morris, ME Adams, DW Ming, JG Catalano, TG Graff, RE Arvidson, EA Guinness, JC Hamilton, and SA Mertzman. Fall 2015 AGU Abstract: Draft 20150729 Ausonia Cavus and Kasei Valles: Complementary Exploration Zone Sites for Biology, Geology and ISRU. J.C. Hamilton

,

S. Lundblad, D.L. Clark, N.G. Purves, C.T. Milovsoroff, N.K. Thomas. First Landing Site (LS)/Exploration Zone (EZ) Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX October 27-30, 2015.

PRISM - PISCES Robotic International Space Mining competition; Leveraging University, State and Natural Resources for Student Success in Space Research. John Hamilton Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS), Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2015 Chemical And Mineralogical Characterization Of A Hematite-Bearing Ridge On Mauna Kea, Hawaii: A Potential Mineralogical Process Analog For The Mount Sharp Hematite Ridge. T. G. Graff, R. V. Morris, D. W. Ming, J. C. Hamilton, M. Adams, A. A. Fraeman, R. E. Arvidson, J. G. Catalano, and S. A. Mertzman, Jacobs, 45th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference. The Woodlands, Texas. March 17–21, 2014 PRISM: PISCES Robotic International Space Mining Competition, John Hamilton, Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS), Golden CO 2014


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PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED) The International Lunar Research Park Concept, Schowengerdt, Hamilton, Rasky, Crisafulli. Lunar Science Forum, NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), NASA Ames, Moffett Field CA July 2011.

Analog Field Testing in Hawai`i, John Hamilton, Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS), Ottawa Canada 2011 Use of Hawii Analog Sites for Lunar Scuence and In-Situ Resource Utilization, Sanders, Larson, Picard and Hamilton, EPSC_DPS 20111 European Planetary Science Congress and American Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Sciences Joint Meeting 2011. NASA Technical Report JSC-CN-24415, EPSC Abstracts, Vol 6. Observational Search for PeV-EeV Tau Neutrino from GRB081203A, Aita, Aoki, Asaoka, Chonana, Jobashi, Masuda, Morimoto, Noda, Sasaki, Asoh, Ishikawa, Ogawa, Learned, Matsuno, Olsen, Binder, Hamilton, Sugiyama and Watanabe Physical Review Letters (in press) 2011 Combining Outreach and Education with Space Field Test Activities by PISCES, Hamilton, J, R. Fox, C. Andersen, F. Schowengerdt. Earth & Space Science: Making Connections in Education and Public Outreach - A Symposium on Improving the Community of Practice for EPO Professionals, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder CO. 31 July-4 August, 2010. Participatory Space Exploration and Education at PISCES, F. Schowengerdt, R. Fox, John Hamilton. Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) & XI Space Resources Roundtable (SRR), Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO. June 8-10, 2010. Conducting Lunar Analog Tests in a Culturally Sensitive Environment , R. Fox, F. Schowengerdt, John Hamilton. Global Lunar Conference, 11th ILEWG Conference on Exploration & Utilisation of the Moon, Beijing, China. 31 May-3 June, 2010. The 2009 Akamai Observatory Short Course Inquiry Activity: “Design and Build a Telescope” Sonnett, S, Betsy Mills, John Hamilton and Heather Kaluna, The Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 2010.

PISCES Outreach: Bringing the Moon Down to Earth Hamilton, J, Robert Fox, Christian Andersen, Frank Schowengert. The 120th

Lunar Surface Equipment Testing and Demonstrations at the PISCES Lunar Analog Facilities. Bland, Dan, Robert Carlson, Robert Fox, John Hamilton, Frank Schowengert. The 27th

International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, Tsukuba Japan

Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Millbrae CA

Creating a Better Learning Environment for Physics Majors Hamilton, J, Robert Fox, Christian Andersen. Physics Teacher Education Coalition conference, Pittsburgh PA

Ashra Detector Current Status on Mauna Loa, Hawai`i. Hamilton, J (UHH)., Fox, R., Sasaki, M., and Asaoka, Y., (2008) AAS 212th

Hoku Kea – UHH 1 Meter Educational Telescope. Hamilton, J (UHH) and Fox, R.(UHH) –– AAS 211

Meeting, St. Louis MO

th Meeting, Austin Texas


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PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)

Construction Status of Ashra Hamilton, J (UHH). (2007) The 6th International Workshop on Very High Energy Particle Astronomy - Connection between Wide Field Survey and Cosmic Ray Observation

Observatory, Astronomical. Hamilton, J, , in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, http://www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.057500

Gemini Observatory, Hamilton, J, " in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB020910

Observatory, Astronomical. Hamilton, J, – The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (2000, 2007)

Ashra Report 2: Current Status, Hamilton, J (UHH)., Fox, R., Sasaki, M., and Asaoka, Y., (2006), Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 31 October, 2006

Ashra Report 4 : VHE Gamma Ray Detection Okumura, Akira (ICRR) et al,,

Ashra Report 5: VHE Neutrino Detection Noda, Koji (ICRR) et al

Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 31 October, 2006

,

Ashra Project Learned, J (UH-Mānoa) et al., Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 31 October, 2006

Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 31 October, 2006

Status of Ashra (All-sky Survey High Resolution Air shower detector) Project, Sasaki, M. (ICRR), et. al., 29th

Ashra Report 3: Hybrid Photo Pixel Detector As the Trigger Sensor Masuda, Masataka (ICRR) et al, Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 31 October, 2006

International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC)., Pune, India, 101-106 (2005)

Construction of the Ashra Detector, Hardman, J (UHH)., Hamilton, J., Fox, R., and Asaoka, Y., Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 30 October, 2006

Ashra: All-Sky High Resolution Air Shower Detector, Trang, D (UHH)., Hamilton, J., Fox, R., and Asaoka, Y. (2006) Joint Meeting of Pacific Particle Physics Communities, Honolulu Hawaii, 30 October, 2006

"Industrial Lasers: Carbon-Fiber Spectrographic Masks Are Precision Laser Cut ". Hamilton, J (Gemini Observatories), Laser Focus World (October 1999 Issue, web: www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/43144/12/ARCHI/none/Feat/INDUSTRIAL-LASERS:-Carbon-fiber-spectrographic-masks-are-precision-laser-cu )

UV Detection of Quasar 3C273 with the Skylab S-019 Spectrograph Hamilton, J., NASA Internal Publication, Skylab Student Project (1977)


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AWARDS RECEIVED 2014 2011 August 2011 June 2010 May 2010 May 2010 Aug 2009 Sept 2009 Mar 2008 2008 February 2007 August 1999 October 1997 August 1972-1977 1973 Summer

NASA Certificate of Appreciation - Mauna Kea Mars Analog

NASA Lunar Science Institute Travel Award – ASP "Connecting People to Science", Baltimore MD

NASA Group Achievement Award 2010 International Lunar Surface Operations ISRU Utilization Field Test

NASA Group Achievement Award In-Situ Resource Utilization Analog Demo Team

NASA Group Achievement Award In-Situ Resource RESOLVE Team (Regolith and Environment Science & Oxygen and. Lunar Volatile Extraction)

Scholarship for Cosmos in the Classroom 2010 from Astronomical Society of the Pacific – Boulder CO

Travel Scholarship – Outreach Workshops ASP 2009 from The Spitzer Science Center and ASP – Millbrae CA

Travel Scholarship – PTEC organization, COMPADRE - Pittsburg PA

Outstanding Service Award - Japan-US Science, Technology & Space Applications Program (JUSTSAP) Commendation

Travel Award – NASA LCROSS Astronomer Meeting, Ames Research Center, CA

Scholarship for Cosmos in the Classroom 2007 from The Spitzer Science Center and Astronomical Society of the Pacific – Pomona CA

Commendation for Excellence in Technical Communication –

Competitive grant to attend the XXIII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Kyoto, Japan.

Laser Focus World

NASA Skylab Student Experiment Project – National Finalist (25) to fly an experiment (ED-23 UV from Quasars) onboard orbiting manned space station Skylab. Participated in pre-launch design reviews, launch activities, and post-launch data analysis with Dr. Karl Henize (scientist-astronaut) and his team at University of Texas at Austin and Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-401/ch2.htm

Hawaii State Delegate, National Youth Science Camp - http://www.sciencecamp.org/index.html One of 2 State delegares

LANGUAGES

Working knowledge in French, Spanish and Ōlelō Hawai΄i. Programming Languages - Fortran, EPICS, Linix, & Python


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Marianne Y. TakamiyaASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ASTRONOMY AT UHH

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, 200 Kāwili Street, Hilo, HI 96720 (808) 333-9508 | [email protected] | www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu | takamiya

Formal EducationThe University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USAPH.D. IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Jul. 1993 - Aug. 1998

Galaxy Structural Parameters: Star Formation Rate and Evolution with Redshift(advisor: Dr. Richard Kron)

The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USAM.S. IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Aug. 1992 - Jul. 1993

The faint Globular Cluster Pal 13 (advisor: Dr. Kyle Cudworth)

Universidad de Chile - School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Santiago, ChileM.S. IN ASTRONOMY Mar. 1989 - Aug. 1992

ESO 207-61: A brown dwarf candidates in the Hyades moving group (advisor: Dr. Maria Teresa Ruiz)

Universidad de Chile - School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Santiago, ChileB.S. IN PHYSICS Mar. 1985 - Dec. 1989

Employment HistoryDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Hilo, HI, USACHAIR DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Aug. 2014 - present

• Develops course schedule of physics and astronomy classes• Calls bi-weekly meetings with all faculty• Responds to students’ concerns• Responds to faculty, lecturers’, and APT concerns• Manages access to offices and research spaces and use of two Departmental vehicles• Responds to concerns of Division Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Dean and Associate Dean, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs onmatters related to class and major enrollments and on Department budget

• Triggered, negotiated, and secured guaranteed access to telescopes through agreement with the Institute for Astronomy from the Univer-sity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa that culmitated with the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by University of Hawai‘i President Lassner

• Triggered and secured particiation of UHH as single undergraduate instutition as part of the 10+10 collaboration of the China ScholarshipCouncil for exchange of students, researchers and faculty from ten Chinese Universities to ten US universities

• Negotiated with Chancellor Straney the purchase of the 0.7m PlaneWave telescope as part of the Capital Improvement Projects as a re-placement of the inoperable 0.9m telescope on Maunakea

• Iincrease visibility of the Department and increase collaborative opportunities for faculty and students with University of Hawai‘i at Mānoaand Maunakea observatories by meeting with Subaru, CFHT, and Gemini observatory directors

• Further developed the undergraduate program in astronomy to incorporate more laboratory courses through unique opportunities withthe Subaru observatory

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Hilo, HI, USAASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Aug. 2013 - present

• From a total of 23 required courses for our majors and non-majors, taught 20 of them• Gained access to several nights on Maunakea telescopes to carry out research on star formation in nearby galaxies and on the propertiesof distant galaxies detected as intervening sources against the light of quasar at Keck, Gemini, Subaru, CFHT, UKIRT, and the UH2.2m

• Manage awarded extramural (NSF, Cottrell Scholar) and two intramural grants to carry out research while heavily involving several under-graduate students

• Developed freshman astronomy lab ASTR 110L; trained lecturers and faculty, and student lab assistants on experiments and equipmentin ASTR 110L

• Developed a course on Communicating Astronomy to the Public as a special topics course

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Hilo, HI, USAASSISTANT PROFESSOR Aug. 2008 - Jul. 2013

• Taught service and major courses in physics and astronomy to undergraduate students and in 2012 recognized with the Francis DavisAward for excellence in teaching at the UH system level

• Through a competitive time allocation process, received 3-5 nights per semester to use Maunakea telescopes to carry out research ongalaxies and the interstellar medium

• Awarded National Science Foundation, Cottrell Scholars funding and intramural grants adding up to $• Lead internal assessment of the status of the University of Hawai‘i Hilo telescope commissioning process• Included 17 undergraduate students in research experiences at University of Hawai‘i Hilo and Maria Mitchel Observatory in Nantucket• Prepare them to deliver presentations as first authors in professional astronomy meetings, such as the American Astronomical Societymeeting in 2010 in Washington, D.C. and 2011 in Seattle, WA, and the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu in2015

• Developed two special topics courses for astronomymajors on the interstellar medium of extragalactic sources and data processing• Served in UH Hilo committees including various selection committees (UHH hiring committeed, 3 years in the Telescope allocation com-mittee, Akamai internship) and UHH strategic plan implementation committees

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Hilo, HI, USA

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - NON TERNURE TRACK Aug. 2006 - Jul. 2008

• Taught service and major courses in physics and astronomy to undergraduate students• Develop research on star formation in distant galaxies using Maunakea telescopes in particular the Gemini, and Subaru telescopes; andresearch on globular cluster population statistics in the Virgo cluster of galaxies using Maunakea telescopes in particular Keck as well asspace-based Hubble Space Telescope

• Involve undergraduate student in research and prepare them to deliver presentations as first author in professional astronomy meetingsat the American Astronomical Society meeting in 2007 in Honolulu


NSF RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Aug. 2003 - Jul. 2006

• Lead the research on globular clusters population statistics in the field of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies using data obtainedwith the HubbleSpace Telescope to calibrate the galaxy globular cluster contents

• Carry out imaging observations at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile and infrared and visible imaging observations at CFHTand Keck

• Develop own research path on distant galaxies’ interstellar medium using Maunakea telescopes through a competitive selection processwhile including undergraduate students in the research process


VISITING FACULTY Aug. 2002 - Jul. 2003

• Taught physics and astronomy courses to majors and non-majors while developing own research path on distant galaxies’ interstellarmedium using Maunakea telescopes

Gemini Observatories - Gemini North Headquarters Hilo, HI, USA

GEMINI SCIENCE FELLOW - POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER Mar. 1998 - Jul. 2002

• Member of the commissioning team of the Gemini North telescope meeting the expected first light date• Member of the commissioning team of various astronomical instruments: CIRPASS, GMOS, NIRI• Develop and test data reduction software in IRAF scripts for various visible and near infrared imagers and spectrographs• Carry out monthly one-week observations at the summit of Maunakea with various instruments on Gemini North• Develop web-based documentation for instrumentation and exposure time calculator

Carnegie Instution of Washington - Las Campanas Observatory La Serena, Chile

OBSERVER 1991

• Carry out multi-band CCD imaging observations of open clusters at Las Campanas Observatory using the Swope 1m telescope as one ofthe first chilean master degree students to be employed by the observatory

University of Toronto - Las Campanas Observatory La Serena, Chile

OBSERVER 1991

• Carry out multi-band plate imaging observations of globular clusters at Las Campanas Observatory using the University of Toronto 60cmtelescope

Universidad de Chile - Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas Santiago, Chile

RESEARCH ASSISTANT 1990-1991

• Carry our spectroscopic observations with the 4.0 telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory while delivering reduced spectro-scopic data before the end of the night



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RESEARCH ASSISTANT 1989-1990

• As senior student, carry our imaging CCD observations with the 0.9m telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory and with the1m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory

• Carry out data reduction using IRAF to determine flux and colors of quasars


TEACHING ASSISTANT 1986-1991

• Deliver recitation sessions to engineering, physics and mathematics students in freshman physics and astronomy courses whie a sopho-more, junior and senior undergraduate student

Grants & AwardsUHH $8,000

SEED GRANT 2016-2017

The ISM in Nearby Galaxies

NSF - AST $142,000

EXTRAMURAL GRANT 2008-2013

Star Formation Rates: Near and Far

UHH $15,000

SEED GRANT 2008-2009

Star Formation Rates in Nearby Galaxies

AURA $15,000

EXTRAMURAL GRANT 1995-2000

Structural Parameters of Distant Galaxies

Government of ChileBECA PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA 1985

Universidad de Chile

Professional AffiliationsAmerican Astronomical Society US

MEMBER 1995 - present

• Participate in annual or bi-annual meetings, exchange ideas with collaborators while fostering new collaborations

Community/Civil InvolvementJourney Through The Universe, AstroDay, Onizuka, UHH Hilo, HI

PRESENTER OF ASTRONOMY OUTREACH EVENTS since 2003

• Engagedpublic in various astronomyandphysics hands-on activities in K-12 classrooms, at theHilo PrinceKuhioMall, at theUHHcampus,and various high school groups from Japan, Korea, and USmainland at UHH

• Lead the first official representation of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo at AstroDay in 2010by organizing the faculty and students and producing material to inspire astronomy to the public



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Public Forums Hilo and Honolulu, HI

THIRTY METER TELESCOPE AND DECOMMISSIONING OF UHH TELESCOPE since 2008

• Since 2008, met and discussed the issue of the TMT with UHH faculty and staff, including Native Hawaiian faculty and staff, the public (Mr.Richard Ha), and kept UHH astronomymajors informed about the situation

• June 2014, provided testimony toDLNRhearing inHonolulu onTMT fromavery personal perspective as amother of two, teacher,minority,and member of the Hilo community

• June 2016, met with PUEO, Perpetuating Unique Educational Opportunities, a group of Native Hawaiians in support of education at alllevels for the local community, to exchange ideas of how to balance educational opportunities and technological advances while caringfor our community as a whole

Professional DevelopmentISEE Akamai Mentor Workshop Waikoloa, HI

PARTICIPANT 13-14 May 2016

• Organized by the Institute for Scientists & Engineer Educators, ISEE, provided coaching and mentor skills to scientists and engineers foreffective work with young undergraduates engaged in projects

Hawai’i National Great Teachers Seminar Volcano National Park, HI

PARTICIPANT 5-10 August 2012

• Organized by Leeward Community College; tuition fully funded by UH system

Coaching Skills for Leaders University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, HI

PARTICIPANT 27 April 2016

• Initiated and organized by Ms. Sulma Ghandi from UHH, it introduced various leadership skills by Ms. Mary Kuentz and Sydney Wieckingwith a follow up one-on-one coaching session

Center for Astronomy Education - Astro 101 Teaching Excellence Workshop Washington, D.C.

PARTICIPANT 2-3 January 2016

• Program to understand how non-majors learn and to learn skills that develop critical thinking process through astronomy

Conferences & SymposiaPROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS (LAST TWO YEARS)

• SPIE - Edinburgh June 2016• China Scholarship Council - Beijing June 2016• TMT Science Meeting - Kyoto May 2016• IAU - Honolulu August 2015

Public Talks

• Maunakea Visitor Information Center: Astronomy at UHH - January 2017• Maunakea Skies Talk Imiloa: Future of UH Hilo Astronomy Program - August 2016• Office of Maunakea Management: Star formation in Galaxies - 2014• Year-round talks to national and international highschool students on astronomy - 2012 - present

Publications

Refereed Articles

[1] B. Li, E. W. Peng, H.-x. Zhang, J. P. Blakeslee, P. Côté, L. Ferrarese, A. Jordán, C. Liu, S. Mei, T. H. Puzia,M. Takamiya, G. Trancho, and M. J. West. A Gemini/GMOS Study of Intermediate Luminosity Early-type



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Virgo Cluster Galaxies. I. Globular Cluster and Stellar Kinematics. ApJ, 806:133, June 2015.

[2] J. Vanderbeke, M. J. West, R. De Propris, E. W. Peng, J. P. Blakeslee, A. Jordán, P. Côté, M. Gregg,L. Ferrarese, M. Takamiya, and M. Baes. G2C2 - II. Integrated colour-metallicity relations for Galacticglobular clusters in SDSS passbands. MNRAS, 437:1734–1749, January 2014.

[3] J. Vanderbeke, M. J. West, R. De Propris, E. W. Peng, J. P. Blakeslee, A. Jordán, P. Côté, M. Gregg,L. Ferrarese, M. Takamiya, and M. Baes. G2C2 - I. Homogeneous photometry for Galactic globular clustersin SDSS passbands. MNRAS, 437:1725–1733, January 2014.

[4] M. Takamiya, M. Chun, V. P. Kulkarni, and S. Gharanfoli. The Nature of a Galaxy along the Sight Line toPKS 0454+039. AJ, 144:111, October 2012.

[5] M. J. West, A. Jordán, J. P. Blakeslee, P. Côté, M. D. Gregg, M. Takamiya, and R. O. Marzke. The globularcluster systems of Abell 1185. A&A, 528:A115, April 2011.

[6] J. Vanderbeke, M. West, P. CÙté, E. Peng, J. Blakeslee, A. Jordán, M. Gregg, M. Takamiya, and M. Baes.New look at the Galactic Globular Cluster System. Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia La PlataArgentina, 54:163–166, 2011.

[7] M. R. Chun, V. P. Kulkarni, S. Gharanfoli, and M. Takamiya. Adaptive Optics Imaging of a Massive GalaxyAssociated With a Metal-Rich Absorber. AJ, 139:296–301, January 2010.

[8] E. W. Peng, A. Jordán, P. Côté, M. Takamiya, M. J. West, J. P. Blakeslee, C.-W. Chen, L. Ferrarese, S. Mei,J. L. Tonry, and A. A. West. The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. The Formation Efficiencies of GlobularClusters in Early-Type Galaxies: The Effects of Mass and Environment. ApJ, 681:197–224, July 2008.

[9] S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni, M. R. Chun, and M. Takamiya. Emission-Line Spectroscopy of a DampedLy -absorbing Galaxy at z = 0.437. AJ, 133:130–138, January 2007.

[10] M. R. Chun, S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni, and M. Takamiya. Adaptive Optics Imaging of Low-RedshiftDamped Ly Quasar Absorbers. AJ, 131:686–700, February 2006.

[11] I. Jørgensen, M. Bergmann, R. Davies, J. Barr, M. Takamiya, and D. Crampton. RX J0152.7-1357: StellarPopulations in an X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Cluster at z = 0.83. AJ, 129:1249–1286, March 2005.

[12] B. J. Weiner, A. C. Phillips, S. M. Faber, C. N. A. Willmer, N. P. Vogt, L. Simard, K. Gebhardt, M. Im,D. C. Koo, V. L. Sarajedini, K. L. Wu, D. A. Forbes, C. Gronwall, E. J. Groth, G. D. Illingworth, R. G. Kron,J. Rhodes, A. S. Szalay, and M. Takamiya. The DEEP Groth Strip Galaxy Redshift Survey. III. RedshiftCatalog and Properties of Galaxies. ApJ, 620:595–617, February 2005.

[13] G. P. Smith, I. Smail, J.-P. Kneib, C. J. Davis, M. Takamiya, H. Ebeling, and O. Czoske. A Hubble SpaceTelescope lensing survey of X-ray luminous galaxy clusters - III. A multiply imaged extremely red galaxy atz=1.6. MNRAS, 333:L16–L20, June 2002.

[14] S. D. Ryder, J. H. Knapen, and M. Takamiya. Near-infrared spectroscopy of the circumnuclear star formationregions in M100: evidence for sequential triggering. MNRAS, 323:663–671, May 2001.

[15] D. L. Block, I. Puerari, M. Takamiya, R. Abraham, A. Stockton, I. Robson, and W. Holland. Dust-penetratedmorphology in the high-redshift universe: Clues from NGC 922. A&A, 371:393–403, May 2001.

[16] M. H. Siegel, S. R. Majewski, K. M. Cudworth, and M. Takamiya. A Cluster’s Last Stand: The Death ofPalomar 13. AJ, 121:935–950, February 2001.

[17] T. G. Hawarden, S. D. Ryder, R. J. Massey, G. S. Wright, and M. Takamiya. A Near-IR Spectral Atlas ofIR-Selected Nearby Spirals. Ap&SS, 269:501–504, December 1999.

[18] M. Takamiya. Morphological Evolution of Galaxies. Ap&SS, 269:339–344, December 1999.

[19] M. Takamiya. Galaxy Structural Parameters: Star Formation Rate and Evolution with Redshift. PASP,111:772–772, June 1999.

[20] M. Takamiya. Galaxy Structural Parameters: Star Formation Rate and Evolution with Redshift. ApJS,122:109–150, May 1999.

[21] M. Y. Takamiya. Galaxy Structural Parameters: Star Formation Rate and Evolution with Redshift. PhD thesis,THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1998.



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[22] R. Guzman, D. C. Koo, S. M. Faber, G. D. Illingworth, M. Takamiya, R. G. Kron, and M. A. Bershady.On the Nature of the Faint Compact Narrow Emission-Line Galaxies: The Half-Light Radius–Velocity WidthDiagram. ApJ, 460:L5, March 1996.

[23] M. Takamiya, R. G. Kron, and G. E. Kron. Photoelectric Photometry of Zwicky Galaxies. AJ, 110:1083,September 1995.

[24] M. T. Ruiz and M. Y. Takamiya. Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Large Proper-Motion Stars in ESO Areas 207,439, and 440. AJ, 109:2817, June 1995.

[25] D. C. Koo, R. Guzman, S. M. Faber, G. D. Illingworth, M. A. Bershady, R. G. Kron, and M. Takamiya.High-resolution spectra of distant compact narrow emission line galaxies: Progrenitors of spheroidal galaxies.ApJ, 440:L49–L52, February 1995.

[26] M. T. Ruiz, M. Y. Takamiya, R. Mendez, J. Maza, and M. Wishnjewsky. Proper motions in the southern ESOareas 207, 439, and 440. AJ, 106:2575–2579, December 1993.

[27] D. L. Welch, M. Mateo, E. W. Olszewski, P. Fischer, and M. Takamiya. The variable stars of the young LMCcluster NGC 2164. AJ, 105:146–154, January 1993.

[28] M. T. Ruiz, M. Y. Takamiya, and M. Roth. ESO 207 - 61: A brown dwarf candidate in the Hyades movinggroup. ApJ, 367:L59–L61, February 1991.

Non-Refereed Articles

[1] C. Baranec, J. R. Lu, S. A. Wright, J. Tonry, R. B. Tully, I. Szapudi, M. Takamiya, L. Hunter, R. Riddle,S. Chen, and M. Chun, “The rapid transient surveyor,” in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers(SPIE) Conference Series, vol. 9909 of Proc. SPIE, p. 99090F, July 2016.

[2] C. Baranec, J. Tonry, S. Wright, R. B. Tully, J. R. Lu, M. Y. Takamiya, and L. Hunter, “The Rapid TransientSurveyor,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 227 of American Astronomical SocietyMeeting Abstracts, p. 427.06, Jan. 2016.

[3] J. Vanderbeke, M. J. West, R. de Propris, E. W. Peng, J. P. Blakeslee, A. Jordan, P. Cote, M. Gregg,L. Ferrarese, M. Takamiya, and M. Baes, “VizieR Online Data Catalog: Galactic globular clusters SDSSphotometry (Vanderbeke+, 2014),” VizieR Online Data Catalog, vol. 743, Oct. 2014.

[4] L. Straka, V. P. Kulkarni, D. G. York, M. R. Chun, M. Takamiya, and B. E. Woodgate, “A Search for GalaxiesProducing Metal-rich Quasar Absorbers,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #216, vol. 41of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 828, May 2010.

[5] M. Takamiya, M. West, P. Côté, A. Jordán, E. Peng, and L. Ferrarese, IGCs in the Virgo Cluster, p. 361.2009.

[6] S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni, M. Chun, and M. Takamiya, “Galaxies Producing Low-redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Quasar Absorbers,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 39 of Bulletin of theAmerican Astronomical Society, p. 875, Dec. 2007.

[7] E. Peng, M. Takamiya, P. Cote, M. J. West, J. P. Blakeslee, L. Ferrarese, A. Jordan, and S. Mei, “The SpatialDistributions of Globular Cluster Systems,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 38 ofBulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1062, Dec. 2006.

[8] S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni, M. Chun, and M. Takamiya, “A Search for Emission Lines from a Low-redshiftDamped Lyman-alpha Galaxy with Keck LRIS,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 37of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1362, Dec. 2005.

[9] M. Chun, S. Gharanfoli, V. Kulkarni, and M. Takamiya, “Adaptive Optics Imaging of Low-redshift QuasarAbsorbers with Gemini-North,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 36 of Bulletin of theAmerican Astronomical Society, p. 1556, Dec. 2004.

[10] M. P. Bergmann, I. Jorgensen, J. Barr, R. L. Davies, D. Crampton, M. Takamiya, and B. Miller, “GalaxyEvolution During Half the Age of the Universe,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 35of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1417, Dec. 2003.



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[11] T. G. Hawarden, L. S. Douglas, G. S. Wright, M. Y. Takamiya, and S. D. Ryder, “A near-IR spectral atlasof nearby spiral galaxies: spectral signatures of nuclear activity?,” in American Astronomical Society MeetingAbstracts, vol. 35 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1255, Dec. 2003.

[12] D. L. Block, I. Puerari, M. Takamiya, and R. G. Abraham, “Penetration at high-z of the Greenberg “yellowstuff”: Eyes to the Future with NGST,” ArXiv Astrophysics e-prints, May 2003.

[13] M. Takamiya, M. Chun, I. Jørgensen, and L. Kao, “Masses of Nearby Galaxies from WIYN IFU Spectroscopy,”in The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift (R. Bender and A. Renzini, eds.), p. 117, 2003.

[14] L. Kao, M. Takamiya, M. Chun, and I. Jorgensen, “Star Formation and Mass of NGC 6052 and I Zw 207,”in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #200, vol. 34 of Bulletin of the American AstronomicalSociety, p. 956, June 2002.

[15] B. W. Miller, J. Turner, M. Takamiya, D. Simons, and I. Hook, “Integral Field Spectroscopy with the Gemini8m Telescopes,” in Galaxies: the Third Dimension (M. Rosada, L. Binette, and L. Arias, eds.), vol. 282 ofAstronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, p. 427, Jan. 2002.

[16] T. G. Hawarden, G. S. Wright, S. K. Ramsay-Howat, M. Y. Takamiya, and S. D. Ryder, “Molecular HydrogenEmission (MHE) Galaxies: a New (Near Infrared) Spectroscopic Class,” in Galaxies: the Third Dimension(M. Rosada, L. Binette, and L. Arias, eds.), vol. 282 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series,p. 246, Jan. 2002.

[17] D. L. Block, I. Puerari, M. Takamiya, R. Abraham, A. Stockton, I. Robson, and W. Holland, “Dust penetratedmorphology in the high redshift universe,” in New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: the Link Between Stars andCosmology (M. Chávez, A. Bressan, A. Buzzoni, and D. Mayya, eds.), vol. 274 of Astrophysics and SpaceScience Library, pp. 253–256, 2002.

[18] K. C. Roth, I. Jorgensen, I. M. Hook, and M. Y. Takamiya, “Early Results from the Gemini Multi-ObjectSpectrograph,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 34 of Bulletin of the AmericanAstronomical Society, p. 571, Dec. 2001.

[19] M. Takamiya, M. Chun, I. Jorgensen, and L. Kao, “Masses of Nearby Irregular Galaxies from WIYN IFUdata,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 34 of Bulletin of the American AstronomicalSociety, p. 570, Dec. 2001.

[20] M. Takamiya and M. Chun, “Understanding Galaxies in 3-D,” in Birth and Evolution of the Universe (K. Satoand M. Kawasaki, eds.), p. 419, 2001.

[21] S. D. Ryder, J. H. Knapen, A. Alonso-Herrero, and M. Takamiya, “The Ages of Circumnuclear Starburstsfrom Near-IR Spectroscopy: Bushfires or Mexican Wave?,” in The Central Kiloparsec of Starbursts and AGN:The La Palma Connection (J. H. Knapen, J. E. Beckman, I. Shlosman, and T. J. Mahoney, eds.), vol. 249 ofAstronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, p. 501, 2001.

[22] S. D. Ryder, J. H. Knapen, and M. Takamiya, “Understanding Circumnuclear Star Formation in Spiral Galax-ies,” in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies (J. G. Funes and E. M. Corsini, eds.), vol. 230 of Astronomical Societyof the Pacific Conference Series, pp. 327–328, 2001.

[23] D. L. Block, I. Puerari, R. J. Buta, R. Abraham, M. Takamiya, and A. Stockton, “The Duality of SpiralStructure, and a Quantitative Dust Penetrated Morphological Tuning Fork at Low and High Redshift,” inGalaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies (J. G. Funes and E. M. Corsini, eds.), vol. 230 of Astronomical Society of thePacific Conference Series, pp. 137–144, 2001.

[24] M. Takamiya and M. Chun, “Dissecting Nearby Galaxies,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts,vol. 32 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1525, Dec. 2000.

[25] M. Takamiya, “VizieR Online Data Catalog: Galaxy structural parameters (Takamiya+, 1999),” VizieR OnlineData Catalog, vol. 212, Sept. 1999.

[26] M. Takamiya, “Structural parameters of Hubble Deep Field galaxies,” in American Institute of Physics Con-ference Series (S. S. Holt and L. G. Mundy, eds.), vol. 393 of American Institute of Physics Conference Series,pp. 610–613, Feb. 1997.

[27] M. Takamiya, “Structure and Star Formation Rates in Nearby and Distant Field Galaxies,” in AmericanAstronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 28 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1381,Dec. 1996.



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[28] M. Takamiya and R. G. Kron, “Structural Parameters of field galaxies with HST and ARC 3.5m,” in AmericanAstronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 27 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 1361, Dec.1995.

[29] M. Takamiya, R. G. Kron, and G. E. Kron, “B, V Photoelectric Photometry of Zwicky Galaxies,” in AmericanAstronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, vol. 27 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 766, Dec.1994.

[30] K. Cudworth, M. Takamiya, S. Majewski, and R. Peterson, “The faint globular cluster Pal 13.,” in Bulletin ofthe American Astronomical Society, vol. 25 of BAAS, p. 885, May 1993.

[31] K. Cudworth, M. Takamiya, S. Majewski, and R. Peterson, “The Faint Globular Cluster PAL 13,” in AmericanAstronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #182, vol. 25 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, p. 885,May 1993.

Non-Refereed Articles with UHH students

[1] M. Takamiya, D. Berke, F. Bremer, C. Jones, and G. Poquet, “SFR and Abundances of Nearby Galaxies,” inFrom Interstellar Clouds to Star-Forming Galaxies: Universal Processes? (P. Jablonka, P. André, and F. vander Tak, eds.), vol. 315 of IAU Symposium, p. E73, 2016.

[2] M. Takamiya, C. Jones, and D. Berke, “Extinction, Star Formation Rates and Nebular Abundances of Star-Forming Regions in Nearby Gala,” IAU General Assembly, vol. 22, p. 2255532, Aug. 2015.

[3] B. Browning, M. Y. Takamiya, M. R. Chun, V. P. Kulkarni, and S. Gharanfoli, “Identifying a Damped Ly-man Alpha Source in the Spectrum of Quasar SDSS J233544.18+150118.3,” in American Astronomical SocietyMeeting Abstracts #224, vol. 224 of American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, p. 318.10, June 2014.

[4] E. Moravec, M. Y. Takamiya, and M. West, “Mapping the Characteristics of NCG 7081 as a Function of GalacticRadius,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #223, vol. 223 of American Astronomical SocietyMeeting Abstracts, p. 246.13, Jan. 2014.

[5] I. Cunnyngham, M. Takamiya, C. Willmer, M. Chun, and M. Young, “Spatial Distribution of Star Formationin High Redshift Galaxies,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #217, vol. 43 of Bulletin ofthe American Astronomical Society, p. 258.33, Jan. 2011.

[6] D. Berke and M. Takamiya, “Calibrating the Star Formation Rate and Extinction at Visible Wavelengths inNearby Galaxies,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #217, vol. 43 of Bulletin of the AmericanAstronomical Society, p. 258.31, Jan. 2011.

[7] M. Y. Takamiya, I. Cunnyngham, C. Willmer, M. Chun, M. Young, and MTakamiyaUHH, “Distribution of StarFormation in Distant Galaxies,” in American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #217, vol. 43 of Bulletinof the American Astronomical Society, p. 114.01, Jan. 2011.

[8] A. Ridenour and M. Takamiya, “Mapping Extinction and Star Formation Rates of Nearby Galaxies,” in Amer-ican Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #215, vol. 42 of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,p. 258, Jan. 2010.

[9] M. Takamiya, C. Willmer, M. Young, and M. Chun, “Disk morphologies at z=0.7,” in The Galaxy Disk in Cos-mological Context (J. Andersen, Nordströara, B. m, and J. Bland-Hawthorn, eds.), vol. 254 of IAU Symposium,p. 72, Mar. 2009.



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VI. Future

VI.1 Program Goals

The goal of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is to develop competitive undergraduate astronomy andphysics programs with emphasis in applied areas. To achieve these goals the department expects to meet thefollowing objectives in the next five years:

subsubsectionObjectives:

1. Maintain and fully support the number of Astronomy majors at about 40: The number ofAstronomy majors has been typically above 40 but is slowly decreasing to below 40 (see Tables 22 and23). Our objective is to keep the number at about 40+. In the last few years, the retention from freshmanto sophomore and sophomore to junior has decreased slightly and the department hopes to control it bybetter supporting students academically, by providing a stronger sense of community in the Department,and engaging students as lab assistants and recitation leaders.

2. Increase the number of Physics majors from below 20 to above 20: The number of physicsgraduates and majors has increased in the last few years (see Table 1, 20, & 21) although these trends couldbe due to inherent noise in small number statistics. One of the efforts the Department is continuing to pursueis to align the astronomy and physics programs closer so that more students opt to double major. The UHHadministration has asked the Department to discontinue the Physics degree because of low numbers ofgraduates. The faculty have discussed the long term damage to all programs if that were to occur. Whilewe attempt to strengthen the physics degree from within by providing more training in problem solving withdedicated recitation sessions, hands-on opportunities in more advanced labs and Robotics, the departmentis also promoting the double major so that Astronomy majors interested in graduate school also obtainthe physics degree and thus take EM and QM I. A major set back occurred when a physics faculty leftbefore applying for tenure in 2014. This position was not replaced until late last year but only after theDepartment repeatedly pleaded for it. UHH administration finally agreed in February 2016 for a search ofan astronomy/physics/science education position which successfully ended in late February 2017 with thehire of a Native Hawaiian astronomer at the Assistant Professor level. With the addition of this new faculty,more students will be able to engage in projects and we expect that more Astronomy majors will opt totake more upper division physics courses as they plan to go to graduate school.

3. Increase Recruitment: With changes in the course alignment with the UH-System, the Departmentexpects that more students from the UH community colleges and universities transfer to UHH. In general,UHH has more general education electives than any other UH campus. Advisers from other campuses,especially from Kapiolani Community College, one of the most STEM-oriented CCs in the system, haveinformed us that students avoid UHH because of of the GE requirements which add more years to theireducation and some courses are not easily transferrable, like the MATH and PHYS sequences which arenumbered differently at UHH. By renumbering the calculus-based physics sequence, we expect more UH-system transfers. We expect that the new agreement with the Chinese government will entice a smallnumber of undergraduates to come as exchange students to UHH and hopefully transfer. This will increasethe enrollments in upper division courses. Finally, the new agreement with Berry College should also helpin populating the Astronomy major and also increase enrollments in upper division courses. We will beseeking new ways to promote our programs and hope that these three new initiatives bear fruit in the nextfive years.

4. Increase retention and graduation rates of both majors: Although the Department does not have astudy in place to determine why students majoring in Physics and Astronomy leave, through conversationswith former majors, we can point at a variety of reasons: students did not know that Astronomy covered so

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much Mathematics and Physics, the job market is uncertain and graduate school is highly competitive, formainland students Hawai‘i is too far from their families, students repeat foundational courses in Math orPhysics in their freshman year or place rather low in Mathematics (e.g. one year below Calculus I - MATH205). Former majors have mentioned these as reasons to drop the major. We loose most of our studentsto Computer Science and Mathematics, a few change to a Social Science discipline, and a few disappeareither going back to the mainland or dropping out of school for personal or financial reasons. The facultyhave taken a more aggressive role in advising majors so that those that leave, do so having had at least onecourse in Mathematics, Physics or Astronomy. The long term objective is to increase retention by preparingstudents better in physics, engaging them in projects, advising properly, and offer all required courses inthe Physics degree without cancellation when low-enrolled.

5. Prepare majors beyond the classroom: The Department offers an algebra and a calculus-based fresh-man physics sequence. The calculus track is intended for students in the physics sciences and engineerswhile the algebra-based is intended for the rest. Majors in freshman physics are on average better preparedin mathematics than the Life Science students and thus the pace in the class, especially when elements ofvector calculus and surface and volume integrals are used, needs to cater to both student populations. Thisis hard to achieve especially when most of the enrolled students are in the Life Sciences. This problemsurfaces when students taken PHYS 270 (Introduction to Modern Physics) and all upper division physicscourses. To address this situation, majors are asked to be recitation leaders under the mentorship of the in-structor of record where they are asked to solve problems and thus further develop their training in physics.Students are also asked to be assistants in the Physics and Astronomy freshman labs and also graders inASTR 110. These varied opportunities allow students to revisit material after they have passed the coursesand continue to develop their understanding of physics and astronomy.

6. Develop a hiring plan: While it is out of the control of the Department, we would like to start thediscussion with the administration of keeping the number of faculty position in each Department withoutloosing them. Currently any position vacated by a faculty is redistributed to the College as needed. Thusprograms who have grown tend to take these vacated positions as the administration favors programs withlarge enrollments and graduate rates at the expense of the smaller programs. Being a sum-zero game, smallprograms are impacted most negatively. Since 2012 four vacated faculty positions have been vacated andonly two have been given back to the Department but with large delays of at least two years and withrepeated requests and justification from the Department.

7. Continue to track majors: The Department website contains a link to the Alumni page33 that containsdetail description of the whereabouts of 10 alumni. The Department continues to query alumni and hopesto develop a large database as we move forward. This information helps us also identify the strengths ofour programs.

8. Upgrade of academic programs and courses: The Department will continue to modify the academicprograms and courses as the faculty see fit. This process, done through Curriculum Central34 has becomemore streamlined and better supported by Academic Affairs.

9. Outreach: The Department will continue to have a strong presence in outreach activities with the astron-omy Hilo community involving students and staff.

VI.2 Resource Requirements

To achieve our objectives and realize our long term goal, we expect to increase the number of faculty and APTin our Department. A responsible utilization of the unique resources from Maunakea can only be realized if the

33http://astro.uhh.hawaii.edu/Alumni/Alumni.php34http://hilo.kuali.co/cm

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number of faculty returns to what it was in 2012, i.e. six tenure/tenure-track faculty, two instructors, and oneAPT. In addition, and in order to provide day-time assistance in the physics labs and night-time assistance inthe astronomy labs and support of telescopes, a day-time and a night-time APT are required. In addition, theMOU with IfA, signed by UH President Lassner calls for two new hires. In the next five years, we expect to hirethe following positions:

1. Tenure-track Physics: to replace Dr. Jesse Goldman’s teaching load currently covered by a lecturer witha 12-credit teaching load and the duties of the lab coordinator, currently being covered by a second lecturer;

2. Tenure-track Astronomy: to replace Dr. William Heacox whose teaching load is being covered bylecturers teaching astronomy and physics labs and by the increased teaching load to the Director of theObservatory;

3. Tenure-track Astronomy: to start the growth in the Department and develop new lines of research tofully utilize the resources on Maunakea. A researcher in an area of expertise different from what currentlyexists in the Department would be strategic, e.g. radio astronomy, exoplanet, instrumentation;

4. APT: to help with the upgrades of Hoku Ke‘a and the UH2.2m telescopes and to support the night-timeoperations of the Department;

5. 4WD Car: replacement of one of the two 4WD cars (one was purchased used in 2005 and one was newand purchased in 2007).

VI.3 Department Chair’s Evaluation

The Department of Physics and Astronomy has undergone a drastic transformation since the last Program Reviewin 2006. Most faculty have turned around. Only two faculty were in the Department in 2006. While some ofthe vacated positions were due to accidents and retirement, the young faculty who left points at a problem ofretention by the institution. Notwithstanding, the Department is being recognized by the local observatories andby the flagship campus of UH Manoa now more then ever. Program enrollments have decreased in the last yearspartly due to decrease in enrollments in universities nationwide which has prevented our Department to grow ashad been expected in the last review. Unfortunately, morale is low as faculty recognize the great opportunitiesahead but do not see a way to get there with the resources currently available.

Perhaps the most significant achievements over the past ten years are the new building where the Physics andAstronomy Department resides on the second floor of the Science and Technology Building. New physics andastronomy labs, with new equipment have allowed us to streamline the freshman physics labs (PHYS 170Land PHYS 171L) and astronomy lab (ASTR 110L). The ’Imiloa Astronomy Center on campus also plays animportant role in our academic program. The ASTR 110L has a session once in the semester where students usethe Planetarium for one of their activities. Other courses take students regularly to the exhibits and planetariumto render data in 2D or 3D and also foster discussions on topics displayed at ’Imiloa. New lab rooms also existupper division labs especially the Optics Lab that has been taught once and the Department hopes to create thisnew course in the next few years. New equipment for a Modern Physics lab has allowed faculty to teach it twiceas a special topics course. As new physics faculty are hired, these two courses may be added as required labs inthe two degree programs. The sophomore astronomy lab ASTR 250L was made a requirement for the Astronomydegree only recently and with the purchase of two 9.25 in Celestron telescopes, they are now an importantcomponent of this lab. The computer lab room that holds 10 computers running linux are regularly used forPHYS/ASTR 260 and its lab and for research projects that faculty carry out with students. The computers havea suite of software tools regularly used at various observatories and research institutions (IDL35, python with

35Interactive Data Language software used for reduction and analysis of data delivered by many of the instruments on Maunakea

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most relevant libraries, several compilers, IRAF36).

The Department has moved forward in many ways and the typical comments from alumni visiting the 2nd floorof STB is that the Department is looking better with more student-faculty interactions, more open discussions,regular faculty meetings, beginning-of-semester gatherings to welcome new students, more science talks, bothpublic and for experts, and more interactions with the other observatories and institutions in Hilo. Below is alist of recent activities and accomplishments that highlight the work of the faculty and students:

• numerous student presentations at national and international conventions;

• several Hawaii NASA Space Grant awards to students mentored by faculty in the Department;

• many students securing summer internships nationwide;

• faculty recognition at national and international level;

• two Frances Davis Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Undergraduate Level;

• substantial extramural grants (NSF, NASA, State of Hawai‘i).

The annual budget for the Department is inadequate when considered on an absolute scale and when comparedto other laboratory sciences on campus. The maintenance of equipment in the astronomy and physics labs caneasily empty the Department allocation especially as many of the sensors are delicate and tend to last short inthe hands of freshman or non-majors students. Field trips are also a big ticket item as the Department managestwo 4WD cars to access the mountain but have the current budget does not allow us to service them on a timelymanner especially when big problems arise as they have. The responsibility of managing an observatory on thesummit of Maunakea or any other place in the island requires a significant budget. The observatory has neverhad a budget assigned by the University but has had to make ends meet with extramural funds or help from otherinstitutions, all of which are not sustainable in the long run. The faculty are convinced that the level of fundingis inconsistent with the way in which the University advertises Astronomy as a unique program for UH Hilo.

The quality and preparation of declared majors has remained steady since the last program review. The mainproblem freshman students face when declaring Astronomy or Physics as their major is passing freshman physicsand being able to enroll in Calculus I. To enroll in MATH 205, students need to take a placement exam beforeregistration begins. Many of the freshman students do not do so and end up taking a lower level mathematicscourse and no physics course. Most of the students who fall behind in their first semester find it increasinglyharder to enroll and pass math courses and may at best be behind by one year. There is a natural attritionof freshman and sophomore students moving into the upper division courses. The number of students in upperdivision physics and astronomy courses have shrunk which comes from the drop in progress at the freshman andsophomore level. Frequently, the Department receives transfer students who populate the upper division electivesand allow these classes to be offered. Faculty feel uncertain and powerless as to how to increase these numbersthat shape the long term health of a program. The number of students in upper division courses was growingwhen the last program review was done and thus it is not clear what the faculty can do given that the researchactivity now is higher than ever, more students are being admitted into graduate school, more students securejobs after graduation.

The future of the Department will continue to be centered around Astronomy. The Department has been asked atleast three times in the last 5 years to discontinue the physics program on account of the low number of graduates.Astronomy requires so many physics courses that the savings are at the level of two regular courses which would

36Data reduction software developed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and used by the Hubble Space Telescope,Gemini, Subaru

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amount to a minimal saving while reducing the quality of the program for those students opting to go to graduateschool. With the new agreements, guaranteed access to Maunakea telescopes, and new UHH observatory, thefaculty expect that more students will be engaged activities and decide to remain in the program. As our programdevelops as the only undergraduate astronomy program to have guaranteed access to all telescopes on Maunakeamore students will be attracted to our program.

Finally, the micromanagement of the administration to question every academic decision the Department makesdiminishes the returns of the institution as a whole. Every new administrator questions the need for a physicsprogram, the relation between astronomy and physics, and simply does not have an understanding of what it takesto do research in highly remote sites like Maunakea. Thus, the faculty have met with every new administratorwhen they step in to explain what we do. This has become tedious and ineffective especially when the mainproblem the administration faces are budget cuts. The Department does sympathize with it but it is not possibleto be fiscally responsible if there is nothing else to cut. The Department has accommodated as needed by allowingno limits in seats in the General Astronomy course ASTR 110 while other Departments are allowed to count doubleteaching load when the enrollments are above 80. The Department combined all sections of PHYS 170 and PHYS171 into a single large one with small problem solving sessions and decrease the expense to the institution. TheDepartment has increased the caps in the physics labs from 12 to 20. The Department has reacted to the needsof the institution while trying to maintain high academic standards. The faculty are not comfortable with theadministration and would like that new administrators take time to learn about each program before demandingprogram and class cancellations.

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VII. External Review

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VIII. Memorandum Of Understanding

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IX. Approvals

Departmental Approvals:

Marianne Takamiya, Chair

Rene Pierre Martin

Kathy Cooksey

Philippe Binder

John Hamilton

Norman Purves

Administration Approvals:

Jim Beets, Natural Sciences Division Chair

Susan Brown, CAS Dean

Matthew Platz, VCAA

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