Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory Chief Science Researcher, Center for Science and Public Policy Chief Science Advisor, Science and Public Policy Institute Senior Scientist, Marshall Institute Science Director, Tech Central Station Global Warming Expert, Heartland Institute Receiving Editor, New Astronomy Member, American Astrophysical Society, American Geophysical Union, and the International Astronomical Union Recipient, Peter Beckman Award, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, 2004 Recipient, Graduate Scholastic Award, IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, 1989 Recipient, Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award for most representative PhD thesis, 1989 Physicist, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Education:

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), 1991 MS, University of Southern California BS, University of Southern California