Meetings

Mar 10, 2014
1 min

Planet Hunters at the Citizen Science in Astronomy Workshop

Last week, I co-hosted and co-organized the workshop on Citizen Science in Astronomy in Taiwan at my home institute, the Institute of...

Jan 7, 2014
1 min

AAS Talk – Planet Hunters: Kepler by Eye

Yesterday I gave a talk at the 223rd American Astronomical Society meeting titled ‘Planet Hunters: Kepler by Eye’ at the National Harbor...

Jan 6, 2014
2 min

Planet Hunters at the 223rd American Astronomical Society Meeting

Today is the first day of the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) 223rd meeting. This 4 day conference is being held at the National...

Sep 16, 2013
2 min

Heading to the 2nd Kepler Science Conference in November

The 2nd Kepler Science Conference is 7 weeks away on November 4-8th. From the science team, Ji, Tabetha, and I will be heading to...

Aug 11, 2013
1 min

More from Protostars and Planets

Last month, many of the Planet Hunters science team attended the Protostars & Planets VI conference in Heidelberg, Germany. The...

Jul 18, 2013
1 min

Protostars & Planets

Greetings from Heidelberg, Germany. I’m here with most of the Planet Hunters science team for the Protostars and Planets VI conference....

Jul 10, 2013
7 min

ZooCon 13

Today we have a guest post from Jo Echo Syan (echo-lily-mai) , one of our dedicated Talk moderators, who attended ZooCon13 in Oxford, UK...

Jun 11, 2013
1 min

Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data

Greetings from Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. For the next two weeks, I’ll be hanging out at the Statistical and Applied...

May 9, 2013
7 min

2nd Zooniverse Project Workshop Part 2

Image credit: David Miller Photographer: Katy Maloney Today we have Part 2 of a two-part series from Katy Maloney who attended the 2nd...

May 4, 2013
9 min

2nd Zooniverse Project Workshop

Image credit: Adler Planetarium/Zooniverse/David Miller Today we have a guest post from Katy Maloney who attended the 2nd Zooniverse...

Jan 3, 2013
1 min

AAS Meeting in Long Beach California

Tomorrow I’m heading to sunny southern California. I’m heading to the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) 221st meeting in Long...

Nov 27, 2012
1 min

Poster for the Kavli Frontiers of Science Japanese-American Symposium

I’m attending the Kavli Frontiers of Science 13th Japanese-American Symposium in Irvine, California this weekend. I’m going to present a...

Oct 14, 2012
1 min

Q7, DPS, and more

Just a quick note to say that we’ve uploaded Q7 light curves. This is the first of the latest Kepler Quarters from the July 2012 data...

Aug 25, 2012
2 min

Mind the Gap

As I write this, I’m sitting on a train from London in the middle of the English countryside bound for Oxford. I’ll be spending the next...

Aug 16, 2012
2 min

Zoonibot

Today’s guest blog is from Adrian Price-Whelan. Adrian is a graduate student at Columbia University’s Department of Astronomy. As a...

Jul 27, 2012
2 min

Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop

Greetings from sunny warm southern California. I’ve been spending the week at Caltech in Pasadena, CA for the Sagan Exoplanet Summer...

May 21, 2012
2 min

Awesome People: More from ZooCon1

Today we have a guest post by Jules, fellow Planet Hunter and zooite who attended the ZooCon1. Jules is a lead moderator and blogger for...

May 10, 2012
1 min

Zooniverse Science Conference

Greetings from Adler Planetarium in Chicago. I’m at the first Zooniverse Science Conference. I’m here representing the Planet Hunters...

Jan 5, 2012
2 min

A Good Start to 2012

Happy New Year and Happy 2012 Everyone – We’ve got lots in store for 2012. I wanted to give you a quick update on what the team’s been up...

Dec 22, 2011
5 min

Kepler Science Conference Part 5

Today’s blog is a guest post by fellow Planet Hunter and frequent contributor on PH Talk, Daryll (nighthawk_black) who also attended...