Click here to see a presentation on exoplanets -- planets around other stars. This presentation was created before the launch of the Kepler probe and shows a cross section of planets discovered using the transit and radial velocity methods of detection. I've presented this show to the Julian Starfest on August 2010.
Click here for the illustrations I used in a presentation to the Temecula Valley Astronomers (4/6/09), Thompson Middle School (4/23/09), and Explore the Stars (5/16/09). The presentation loosely follows the first chapter of Ray Pierrehumbert's book, Principles of Planetary Climate, but also illustrates radiative balance as described in Trenberth et al.'s Earth's Global Energy Budgets. In addition to these main courses, the presentation also compares and contrasts atmospheric CO2 to water vapor, and ends with my attempts to understand how orbital forcing plus changes in the carbon cycle create and destroy ice sheets. This version contains the illustrations and lacks a narrative, which I'll be adding as I can.
Click here an interactive illustration of long-term changes in Earth's orbit..
This illustration is a pre-cursor to the Earth, Orbit, and Climate presentation listed above, and is included within the presentation.
Corrections, comments, and suggestions are welcome here:
http://brightstarswildomar.blogspot.com/2009/01/earth-orbit-and-climate.html
Click here to view an interactive demonstration of the moon's change in apparent size over 26 days.
Corrections, comments, and suggestions are welcome here:
http://brightstarswildomar.blogspot.com/2008/07/lunar-month-sequence-for-june-2008.html
Click here a work in progress summarizing the history or earth's formation.
Corrections, comments, and suggestions are welcome here:
http://brightstarswildomar.blogspot.com/2008/11/geological-timeline.html