Affiliations

• Utah Center for Data Science , Affiliate Faculty, 11/11/2019 - present
• Academic Senate of the University of Utah (ASUU), Senator, 05/02/2016 - 05/03/2019
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), Data Archivist, 07/01/2013 - present
• Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), Architect, 02/2010 - present
• The American Physical Society (APS), Member, 01/2009 - present
• The Institute of Physics (IOP), Member, 01/2009 - present
• The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-Computer), Engineer, 05/2001 - present
• The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Member, 05/2001 - present
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Engineer, 05/2001 - present

In the Media

• Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) discovered evidence for what they call the “Barbenheimer Star”—an enormous ancient star that exploded in a way previously thought impossible, resulting in an unusual pattern of elemental ashes that left behind a trail of evidence still visible billions of years later. 01/17/2024. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/the-barbenhei...
• SDSS-V’s robots turn their eyes to the sky. 01/13/2022. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/sdss-vs-robot...
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has given its 2021 Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Award to Joel Brownstein, research associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department. The award recognizes the work of Brownstein and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Team’s efforts in providing “an early and influential demonstration of the power of data science to transform a scientific domain.” . 09/01/2021. https://www.physics.utah.edu/news/posts/2021/all/j...
• SDSS-V: Next-gen astronomical survey makes its first observations. 11/02/2020. https://attheu.utah.edu/uncategorized/next-gen-ast...
• Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of our universe's expansion history and make the largest 3D map of the universe ever created. 07/20/2020. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/largest-3d-ma...
• Joel Brownstein made principal data scientist for the next generation Sloan Digitial Science Survey (SDSS-V). 11/16/2017. https://unews.utah.edu/next-generation-astronomica...
• Improving Data Mobility & Management for International Cosmology. 02/10/2015. http://meetings.internet2.edu/2015-cc-cosmology/de...
• Globus User of the Month for December 2013. 12/10/2013. https://www.globus.org/blog/user-month-december-20...
• Science Daily, When Galaxies Eat Galaxies: Gravity Lenses Suggest Big Collisions Make Galaxies Denser. 10/12/2012. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/12101...
• Royal Astronomical Society, The Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558 evidence shows Modified Gravity in the absence of Dark Matter. 04/07/2010. http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/jbrownst...