I am a student at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. I have been passionate about studying astronomy since I first started learning about physics in high school. My favorite non-strictly-academic aspects of astronomy are watching meteor showers and stargazing with friends and family. One day I would like to work at a radio observatory as a technician or telescope operator.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I run SETI@home on my personal laptop (when it's not overheating) as well as a few computers I've usurped in the astronomy lab at my school so that I can run tasks overnight when no one is using the computers. I know how incredibly unlikely it is for us to be alone in the universe, so I am happy to devote a little of my computing time to helping explore beyond our solar system.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
