CPSX Spotlight Shines on Crow Emily

CPSX Spotlight: PhD Candidate Emily McCullough

The Centre for Planetary and Space Exploration @westernu puts the spotlight on Crow Emily @uwophysastro. Is she really going to the North Pole every winter to look for Santa? Click the link above for the rest of the story.

Yarn Bomb @westernu

#YarnBomb #westernu @ McIntosh Gallery on Flickr.

UWO Astronomy Student Names an Asteroid after Orchestra London

Man my new office in the P&A building @westernu better have one of these.

and a sandbox would be cool too.

Crow Emily & @cpsxnews: Successful test of lunar analog rover to study #ImpactCratering #westernu

via communications.uwo.ca

Here's an article from Western News on what Crow Emily does in her "spare time" (Emily is shown on the right in the photo, correcting Prof Osinski rather than Prof Sica :-). The group remotely operated a rover that someday will collect lunar samples relating to impact cratering, including a laser ranging imager.

Our New Nd:YAG laser has arrived! 1000 mJ/pulse @ 30Hz, 532 nm #westernu

Ohhh it has been a LOOONNNGGGG wait but the PCL has taken a big step towards getting back in action. Our new laser was trucked in today and Emily and Robin were there to meet it. Fortunately for them so were Caroline from the Western Environmental Field Station and several real nice folks from the ICFAR lab with strong backs and a forklift. As you can see in the picture they were certainly needed. I thought 2 people would be able to lift the laser head, but it was hard to get it on the table with 5! We are hoping to get it operational Monday and have our fingers crossed it will robustly meet its spec of 1000 mJ/pulse at 30 Hz in the green.

More to follow!

Bob

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