Television Series Appearances
We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) S2 E2 Scary Space S*** (2024). Hard to watch in the USA due to it being only on Crave. Heard one can get access to it on Apple TV, at least for the moment. I will update this post when the episode is released more widely.
The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters S2 E3 Into the Magnetic Storm (2023). This series was an eye-opening dive into space weather forensics during several of the most active solar cycles we have on record in the space age.
The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters S2 E8 Pirates in the Caribbean (2023). This series was an eye-opening dive into space weather forensics during several of the most active solar cycles we have on record in the space age.
42: The Answer to Almost Everything– How dangerous is space weather? (2022). I shared this documentary with friends and colleagues Antti Pulkkinen, Juha-Pekka Luntama, and Herwig Renner. (German language documentary with English subtitles)
The History Channel: Doomsday S2 E4 Solar Storm (2016). This was early in my TV career. I did my best to talk about real issues instead of fearmongering and because I wouldn’t answer questions about an impending apocalypse, they got theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku, and paleontologist, Trevor Valle, to very inaccurately discuss the impacts of a massive Space Weather event. Talk about misinformation! Oh well, lessons learned.
The Weather Channel: Secrets of the Earth S2 E4 Strange Skies and E8 Birth and Death of the Planet (2014). My very first television series. Big thanks to Dr. Todd Hoeksema, who originally pointed the production crew (Flight 33) in my direction.
Selected Live Television Weather Broadcasts
Fox Weather Powerful solar storms impact globe (10 May 2024). Live coverage during the onset of the 10 May 2024 Super Solar Storm.
Weather Nation G5 Geomagnetic Storm Reaches Earth (10 May 2024). Live coverage during the onset of the 10 May 2024 Super Solar Storm.
The Weather Channel: Solar Storm (16 July 2017). Perhaps the world’s first solar storm forecast ever broadcast as a “weather report” on live television. Lets hope this starts a trend.
Ham Nation on TWiT TV and now HRCC (weekly/biweekly since 2015). Bob Heil’s award-winning show for amateur radio operators. I do a space weather forecast segment during the Amateur Radio Newsline report, alongside a cast of amazing people.
Other Selected Media and Conference Appearances
NASA at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Solar Hazards in Exploration, STEREO 10th Anniversary (2016). I am joined by good friends and colleagues Janet Luhman, Barbara Thompson, Lika Guhathakurta, and John Grunsfeld for a lecture on the different aspects of Space Weather followed by a Q&A session. More pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHskKfryvE
NASA TV Live Eclipse Across America (21 August 2017). I was part of the NASA Glenn Research Center team as we broadcasted LIVE from Jefferson City, Missouri in the path of totality on August 21, 2017 for the Eclipse. Catch the replay of the entire NASA TV broadcast here: https://www.nasa.gov/eclipselive.
Contest University: The Wonderful World of Space Weather (2017). A tutorial on Space Weather phenomena and how it affects us at Earth with a focus on amateur radio.
I have included the awards announcement. I had included the official live recording of my acceptance speech during the Hamvention Virtual Forums, but it seems to be restricted to some. Here is the link anyway, just in case: https://youtu.be/DZhL979mgas?t=3805 . It was a true honor to be in the company of Angel Vasquez WP3R from Arecibo Radio Observatory, and moderators Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF(of HamSCI.org fame) and Joe Taylor K1JT (Nobel Laureate).
Driving Space Environment Research and Education via a New Paradigm. My talk focused on how we must switch paradigms when it comes to training the Next Generation workforce in applied space-related engineering and science fields. Entry-level workers need a much more synoptic view of space materials, the space environment, and the resources available to them to remain engaged and competitive in this new world of commercial space. Traditional, compartmented methodologies for teaching different academic disciplines is no longer viable.
This is all about my history, when I first got interested in space and our Sun, how being an artist ultimately enabled me to become a physicist, and the inspiration that caused me to embark on creating a new field of broadcast Space Weather.