Zachary Felker

Zachary Felker

Physics Lecturer

Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Experience

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    Lecturer

    The Ohio State University

    - Present 10 months

    Columbus, Ohio, United States

  • University of Central Florida

    University of Central Florida

    5 years 1 month

  • Docent

    University of Michigan Detroit Observatory

    - 3 years 8 months

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

    ● Assisted in the operation of the Fitz Telescope, original to 1857.
    ● Helped develop and implement policy for preservation of artifacts.
    ● Informed guests at open houses about Astronomy and the Observatory.
    ● Assisted in crowd control and safety considerations.

  • Planetarium Operator

    University of Michigan Museum of Natural History

    - 1 year 8 months

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

    ● Operated planetarium and delivered live educational shows.
    ● Developed new content for shows.

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    Telescope Operator

    University of Michigan

    - 2 years

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

    Operated and troubleshot telescopes at Angell Hall Student Observatory.
    Explained basic astronomy and optics to groups of 8-12.
    Answered astronomy questions for introductory students.

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    Planetarium Presenter

    Grand Rapids Public Museum

    - 5 months

    Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

    Delivered live planetarium shows to audiences as large as 140 people.
    Collaboratively developed content for shows.
    Was responsible for troubleshooting $1.25 million planetarium equipment.

Education

Projects

  • Measuring and Reducing Procrastination Behavior using Educational Data Mining

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  • Evaluating Tools for Analyzing Vertical Structure of the Aerosols on Saturn using Cassini Data

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    Used Fortran and Python to constrain aerosols in atmospheric models of Saturn. Project relied on data from the Cassini space probe.

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    • Michael Roman
    • Emily Rauscher

  • Orbital and Physical Constraint of Near-Earth Transients

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    Used the MDM 1.3m McGraw-Hill Telescope atop Kitt Peak (Arizona) to constrain the orbits an physical properties of several near-Earth objects. Project was done as part of a course taken in residence at Kitt Peak National Observatory.

    Other creators
    • Sally Oey

  • Finding New Main Belt Asteroids with the Dark Energy Survey

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    I wrote Python code that identified thousands of asteroids present in Dark Energy Survey image data. The majority of these were new to science.

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