Kate Becker

I graduated from Cornell University in 2005 with an MS in astronomy. I currently work in the education and public outreach office of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Here is my resume, in pdf format.

Science writing for a general audience

Recent editions of The Visible Universe, my column in The Boulder Daily Camera (Requires free login.)
Stories in The Cornell Chronicle
Ask an Astronomer answers by Me

Co-authored journal publications

Discovery of radio emission from the brown dwarf LP944-20, Berger, E; Ball, S;, Becker, K.M.; Clarke, M; Frail, D.A.; Fukuda, T.A., Hoffman, I.M.; Mellon, R; Momjian, E; Murphy, N.W.; Teng, S.H., Woodruff, T.; Zauderer, B.A.; Zavala, R.T.
Nature, Volume 410, Issue 6826, pp. 338-340 (2001)

A Search for Afterglow Emission from the Short Duration Burst GRB 000607, Becker, K.M.; Frail,D.A.; Berger,E.
American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #73.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1519

Faint Scattering Around Pulsars: Probing the Interstellar Medium on Solar System Size Scales, Stinebring,D.R.; McLaughlin,M.A.; Cordes,J.M.; Becker,K.M.; Goodman,J.E.Espinoza; Kramer,M.A.; Sheckard,J.L.; Smith, C.T.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 549, Issue 1, pp. L97-L100

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Other projects

SuburbanUnderground
How On Earth

Biography in Links

Home Huntington Woods, MI
Berkley High School 1997
Universe Semester, Columbia University Biosphere 2 Center
Oberlin College B.A. in physics with high honors, 2001
Americorps*VISTA with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, 2001-2002

kate at astro.cornell.edu