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Bob Baer

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rbaer@siu.edu
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Physics
Bob Baer is an academic professional staff member in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Physics and Applied Physics.  He is the Director of the Physics’ public astronomy observation program and co-chair of the Southern Illinois Eclipse 2017 - 2024 Steering Committee. He is a board member in the Astronomical Association of Southern Illinois, a member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the NASA SMD Science Activation community and is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Local Planning Working Group on the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force.  Bob is currently working on the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative and other NASA and NSF funded projects involving nation-wide STEM engagement.

Education:

  • B.S. Phyisics, Illinois State University, 1995
  • M.S. Physics, Southern Illinois Univesity Carbondale, 2019

Projects/Activities:

Videos/Documentary Appearances

The Eclipse Effect

The New Yorker Magazine

Countdown to the Eclipse, Lindsay Adams

Director: Lindsay Adams

You'll need to know this if you're going to Carbondale for the Eclipse

Belleville News-Democrat

In the Shadow, SIU Eclipse documentary by H. D. Motyl and Mark Stoffel

SIU News

Publications:

2019, Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma in the Low Corona as Measured by the Citizen CATE Experiment, , , , https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab558c

2019, Eclipse 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Celebrating the 2017 Great American Eclipse: Lessons Learned from the Path of Totality, ASP Conference Series Vol 516.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2019ASPC..516...23B

2019, Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions, https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07716

2019, Thesis: OBSERVING EXOPLANET TRANSITS WITH THE CITIZEN CONTINENTAL-AMERICA TELESCOPIC ECLIPSE (CATE) EXPERIMENT TELESCOPE NETWORK.

2016, Instrumentation for the Citizen {CATE} Experiment: Faroe Islands and Indonesia,