Current Courses

Courses I Teach

• CMP 3851 - Dark Sky Studies: Nightscapes
  This course focuses on how our personal relationship with the night creates emergent systems of connections at multiple scales throughout the globe. Students will examine specific case studies of these connections in-depth and in so doing will gain interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in astronomy, biology, anthropology, engineering, and policy-making. At the core of this course are 2 main community-engaged projects. In collaboration with Salt Lake City and an additional Utah based community, students will design, conduct, and present work related to the challenges of maintaining a quality nighttime environment. The course will include some fieldwork, including learning how to use new drone technology to measure lighting impacts in communities inside and outside of Salt Lake City.