Jeff Kanipe

Jeff will be an astronomy lecturer aboard Princess Cruises' Ruby Princess ship, traveling to the eastern Caribbean from Nov. 4-14, 2009. Lecture topics include 'Cruising the Cosmos'; 'Are We Alone?'; and 'The Cosmic Connection'.

Jeff will be the featured guest in the 1-2 pm hour of the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU-FM in Washington DC on Feb. 23. He'll be talking about 'Cosmic Events and Cosmic Connections'. A live webcast is available at Kojo's website: http://wamu.org/programs/kn/.

Jeff and his coauthor Dennis Webb will be the featured guests on Jefferson Exchange on Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon, on Friday, January 30 in the 9-10 am hour (Pacific time). You can listen to it live during broadcast or sign up for the station's podcasts to listen to recent archived shows. Check it out here.

Jeff and Dennis Webb continue their Ashland blitz at 3 pm on Friday, January 30, on the campus of Southern Oregon University. Their talk is part of the College of Arts and Sciences Friday seminar series, in Meese auditorium on the SOU campus. More details available here.

Jeff's review of The Seventh Landing: Going Back to the Moon, This Time to Stay, by Michael Carroll, appeared in the July 16, 2009, issue of Nature.

Jeff has an article in the 1 January 2009 issue of Nature, on 'four telescopes that will change the next 40 years' - a riff off the 400 years since Galileo invented the telescope, the reason why 2009 is designated as the International Year of Astronomy.

The article covers the James Webb Space Telescope, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the European Extra-Large Telescope, and the Square Kilometre Array. Lynette Cook provided the stunning accompanying artwork. Check out the article here (subscription may be required).

The January 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM, the flagship publication of the Association for Computing Machinery, has an article by Jeff about the virtual observatories WorldWide Telescope and GoogleSky.