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Welcome to my home page. For those of you who are
interested, I am a research astronomer at the University of Keele, and
have been doing that job in various places since getting my PhD in
1998.
I have got a job at Swinburne
University of Technology in the Astrophysics and supercomputing
department. This position will be primarily concerned with simulating
aspects of the new radio telescope: The SKA, and I start in Apr
2003.
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I also am the editor and madwebmaster to K-MAD, the Keele Model Atmosphere Directory, along with Allie Ford.
Here are a list of my published papers, in a
research page.
And here are some astronomy references, and useful tables.
From the UK, coming to Australia in the summer was fun! My spider discovery log describes some of the spiders I have found in and around the house. Not been bitten yet!
While I am not doing research, my current interests lie in the past (which is maybe why I am doing astronomy). I love going round historic sites, mainly castles. Luckilly I used to live on the English-Welsh border and so journeyed into Wales a lot.
A comment like this would be incomplete without a link to CADW, the Welsh historic protection site, English Heritage, and my driving in Wales reference.
I also like learning about the history of language, and how language evolves. English is fascinating in that respect since it has such a varied and strong history. So, if you are interested, then I will be putting up a history link sometime otherwise here is the history of French: Académie Française (since they are so closely linked).
Slightly more modern interests of mine are aircraft and flying. This might grow, so I have included a link for it all.
Then I also do computer things, like Linux administration, and a little bit of programming.
A page on file magic numbers.
I have put together a page of the astronomical computing I do. Here are collections of programmes which I have written to help me do parts of my research.
Here are some of my Unix and package tips.
Photos of our housein Melbourne.
Uppsala conference pictures (with pingus).
A few of my friends have homepages, so this is a link to: other people's home pages
Have you ever wondered what the sun does to us? Well, here is the current solar environment. X-rays, and how strong the magnetic field is.
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But don't worry, man (and in that I mean predominantly Americans) will destroy the Earth long before the Sun does. According to The Australia Institute, 14.5 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent emission was released in 1998, America contributed 39.5% with 41% coming from combustion, from just only 24% of the population.
Last Updated: 27 March 2003. Richard Ogley
