Matthew S. Tiscareno

Education:
Ph.D. in Planetary Science, 2004 -- University of Arizona, Tucson
B.S. in Planetary Science, 1998 -- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Research Experience:

2004-present:	Postdoctoral researcher with Joseph A. Burns, Cornell University: Cassini ISS observations of Saturn's Rings, with related modeling; Other projects involving orbital and rotational dynamics.
2000-2004:	Graduate researcher with Renu Malhotra, University of Arizona: Numerical and analytical orbital dynamics of Centaurs, Plutinos, and other resonant Kuiper Belt Objects (Earlier advisors: Carolyn C. Porco, Paul E. Geissler).
1997-1999:	Undergraduate researcher with Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology: Image processing (software development in IDL) for a six-month campaign of ground-based long-slit spectroscopic observations of the Io Plasma Torus (Earlier advisor: G. Edward Danielson).

Teaching Experience:

• Attended Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) two-day workshop: Improving the College Introductory Astronomy Survey Course for Non-Science Majors Through "Active Learning" (October 2007)
• Guest Lecturer: Celestial Mechanics graduate course, Cornell University (Spring 2007)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant: Planetary Science for undergraduate non-science majors, University of Arizona (six semesters, Fall 1999 through Spring 2003), includes several occasions as a Guest Lecturer
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Geology for undergraduate non-geology majors, California Institute of Technology (Spring 1998)
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Intro to Planetary Science for undergraduate geology/planetary majors, California Institute of Technology (Spring 1997)

Awards and Fellowships:
UA Graduate Teaching Award, 2002
LPL Graduate Teaching Award, 2002
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, 2000-2003
UA Graduate College Fellowship, 1999-2000
McLean Brothers Scholarship, 1994-1998

Education and Public Outreach:

• Heavily involved (including selecting images and writing captions) in preparing an exhibit of Cassini images appearing at American Museum of Natural History, New York City; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca; National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC -- 2007/2008
• Presentation of recent Cassini results to Ithaca-area students -- 11/2008
• Guest lectures in undergraduate-level Astro 280 ("Space Exploration") -- 11/2006, 11/2007
• Taught a class ("Science and Faith") at New Life Presbyterian Church, Ithaca -- 21 sessions from 9/2006 to 5/2007
• Presentation of recent Cassini results to K-12 teachers visiting Cornell for an Educator Workshop -- 2/2005, 3/2007, 11/2007
• Presentation of recent Cassini results to high school students visiting Cornell -- 6/2005, 7/2005, 5/2007, 6/2007
• Presentation of recent Cassini results to Cornell alumni -- 5/2005
• Presentation ("Rockets") given to Ithaca-area students -- 10/2007
• Presentation ("What is a planet? Pluto and its place in the solar system") given to Ithaca-area students -- 9/2006 (PPT/MP3)
• Presentation of Student Showcase research to state legislators in Phoenix -- 2/2003
• Science Fair Judge, St. Michael's Elementary School, Tucson -- 2000, 2001, 2003

Service to Science Community:

• DPS Local Organizing Committee, 2008
• Grant Proposal Review Panels: NASA (2008), NSF (2008)
• Manuscript Reviews: Science, Nature, Icarus, Astronomical Journal, Planetary and Space Science, Geophysical Research Letters

Invited Talks:

• "Saturn's Rings: An Accessible Astrophysical Disk", 10 January 2008
  Winter AAS Meeting, Special Session ("The Dynamics of Astrophysical Disks").
• "Knots and Ripples in the Fabric of Saturn's Rings", 5 December 2007
  University of Maryland, Department Colloquium.
• "Ring Reconnaissance with Weak Waves", 13 December 2006
  Fall AGU Meeting, Session P34A ("Planetary Rings: Observation and Theory").

Popular Articles:

• Tiscareno 2007. Ringworld Revelations: NASA's Cassini spacecraft is giving us our best views yet of the structure and dynamics of Saturn's rings. Sky & Telescope 113 (2), 32-39 (February 2007).

Journal Publications:

• Tiscareno and Malhotra 2008. Chaotic diffusion of resonant Kuiper Belt objects. Astron. J., submitted (astro-ph/0807.2835).
• Tiscareno, Burns, Hedman, and Porco 2008. The population of propellers in Saturn's A Ring. Astron. J., 135, 1083-1091 (ADS) (astro-ph/0710.4547).
• Tiscareno, Burns, Nicholson, Hedman, and Porco 2007. Cassini imaging of Saturn's rings II: A wavelet technique for analysis of density waves and other radial structure in the rings. Icarus 189, 14-34 (ADS) (astro-ph/0610242).
• Hedman, Burns, Tiscareno, Porco, Jones, Roussos, Krupp, Paranicas, and Kempf 2007. The source of Saturn's G ring. Science 317, 653-656. (ADS)
• Hedman and 10 colleagues (including Tiscareno) 2007. Saturn's dynamic D ring. Icarus 188, 89-107. (ADS)
• Tiscareno, Nicholson, Burns, Hedman, and Porco 2006. Unravelling Temporal Variability in Saturn's Spiral Density Waves: Results and Predictions. Astrophys. J. 651, L65-L68 (ADS) (astro-ph/0609242).
• Tiscareno, Burns, Hedman, Porco, Weiss, Dones, Richardson, and Murray 2006. 100-metre-diameter moonlets in Saturn's A ring from observations of 'propeller' structures. Nature 440, 648-650 (ADS) (podcast here).
• Porco and 34 colleagues (including Tiscareno) 2005. Cassini Imaging Science: Initial Results on Saturn's Rings and Small Satellites. Science 307, 1226-1236. (ADS)
• Tiscareno 2004. Chaotic Diffusion in the Outer Solar System, and Other Topics. PhD Thesis, University of Arizona (ADS) (PDF).
• Tiscareno and Malhotra 2003. The Dynamics of Known Centaurs. Astron. J. 126, 3122-3131 (ADS) (astro-ph/0211076).
• Tiscareno and Geissler 2003. Can redistribution of material by sputtering explain the hemispheric dichotomy of Europa? Icarus 161, 90-101. (ADS)
• Porco and 23 colleagues (including Tiscareno) 2003. Cassini Imaging of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings. Science 299, 1541-1547. (ADS)

Memberships:
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS)
AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Scientific Affiliation (ASA)

Conference Attendance:
American Astronomical Society (AAS) -- 2008
AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) -- 2000-2008
AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) -- 2003, 2006-2008
American Geophysical Union (AGU) -- Fall 2004, Fall 2006
Gordon Research Conference, Origins of Solar Systems -- 2003
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) -- 2001, 2002

For full list of papers and abstracts, see http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~matthewt/papers.html