Mr. Robert (Bob) Baer
Specialist
Short Bio
Bob Baer is an academic professional staff member in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Physics and Applied Physics. He is the Director of the Physics Department’s public astronomy observation program and co-chair of the Southern Illinois Eclipse 2017 - 2024 Steering Committee. He is a board member in the Astronomical Association of Southern Illinois, a member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the NASA SMD Science Activation community and is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Local Planning Working Group on the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force. Bob is currently working on the Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative and other NASA and NSF funded projects involving nation-wide STEM engagement.
Education
B.S. Phyisics, Illinois State University, 1995
M.S. Physics, Southern Illinois Univesity Carbondale, 2019
Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/bob.baer.969
https://twitter.com/b__baer
@b__baer
https://www.facebook.com/SIUC.Physics/
https://twitter.com/siucphysics
Projects / Activities
Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative:
https://debinitiative.org
https://www.facebook.com/groups/debinitiative
Exoplanet Watch:
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-watch/
Eclipse 2017 - 2024, SIU Carbondale
http://eclipse.siu.edu
SIU Carbondale Public Astronomy Observations
http://www.physics.siu.edu/events/astronomy.php
NASA Science Mission Directorate
Profile
Citizen CATE Experiment (past):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1528770144065465/ web: citizencate.org
Videos / Documentary Appearances
The Eclipse Effect, The New Yorker Magazine
NASA EDGE: Solar Eclipse 2017 Preview Show
NASA EDGE Megacast: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
Eclipse Across America, Curiosity Stream
Countdown to the Eclipse, Lindsay Adams
You'll need to know this if you're going to Carbondale for the Eclipse, Belleville News-Democrat
2:38: A Glimpse into the Eclipse (SIU Students Malea Bailey and Marcia Kuhlman Eclipse Documentary)
In the Shadow, SIU Eclipse documentary by H. D. Motyl and Mark Stoffel
Publications
2019, Acceleration of Coronal Mass Ejection Plasma in the Low Corona as Measured by the Citizen CATE Experiment, , ,
2019, Eclipse 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Celebrating the 2017 Great American Eclipse: Lessons Learned from the Path of Totality, ASP Conference Series Vol 516.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2019ASPC..516...23B
2019, Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions, https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07716
2019, Thesis: OBSERVING EXOPLANET TRANSITS WITH THE CITIZEN CONTINENTAL-AMERICA TELESCOPIC ECLIPSE (CATE) EXPERIMENT TELESCOPE NETWORK.
2016, Instrumentation for the Citizen {CATE} Experiment: Faroe Islands and Indonesia,