Space Sciences Career

Where, When, and What

Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley, USA 1980-82, 1986-90, 1991-95, 2000-02, 2004-05, 2008-10, 2014

Development Technician, Engineer; designing, building,
and maintaining vacuum test facilities, MCP detectors, and vacuum test equipment. Calibrating flight detectors with ultraviolet to x-ray sources. Creating LabView control panels, C++ code for image analysis and manipulator control.

EUVE Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer		THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
COS Cosmic Origins Spectrograph		BVIT Berkeley Visible Image Tube (installed on the South African Large Telescope)
Others: MiniSat, SPIN, NIH MiniSat, with EURD detector		CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer