Featured: 2026 Total Eclipse Cruise Lectures
Onboard Astronomer, Holland America Eclipse Cruise (Aug. 2026)
In August 2026 I sailed as the shipboard astronomer for a two-week Holland America cruise timed to the August 12 total solar eclipse over Iceland. Along the way I gave six public lectures, working from the scale of the universe down to the Sun, the eclipse itself, the aurora, and meteors.
See the full lecture series →Other Public Engagement
A sample of talks, media coverage, and recognitions over the years.
- CEDAR Prize Lecture, 2016 — awarded for contributions to the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) community; the underlying discovery of photoelectron-driven 150 km echoes was reported in Science magazine.
- Physics Today, “Meteor trails track upper atmospheric winds,” by Mark Wilson, 2009, vol. 62, issue 6, p. 16 — coverage of the group’s meteor-wind measurement technique.
- History Channel, appearance on The Universe, 2007, episode 7, discussing atmospheric electricity.
- Public and semi-popular talks on meteor impacts and space plasma physics at venues including the Max Planck Institute for Sun and Solar System Research and BU’s Research on Tap series.
Research in the group runs through the BU Astronomy PhD program: bu.edu/astronomy/graduate.
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