Travis’s primary interest areas are star formation, climate change advocacy, and astronomy education research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Trinity University in 1992 and his master’s (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in Astrophysics from the University of Colorado. His UAA Faculty website lists his many publications. He also works with a team to make color astronomical images, which you can see in the NOIRLab image gallery. Paola Banchero is a journalist and Professor of Journalism and Public Communications at UAA. She worked as a reporter and editor at the Kansas City Star, the Kansas City Business Journal, the Wichita Eagle, the Arizona Daily Star, and the Anchorage Daily News, as well as in strategic communications for a large agribusiness. Paola is the chair of JPC and has taught various courses, from Corporate Communications to Documentary Filmmakers and Filmmaking, to Magazines to Media Literacy. She is a faculty adviser to The Northern Light and a member of the UAA Media Board. She serves on the Alaska Public Media Board of Directors. She earned master’s degrees in Journalism (Northwestern) and Business Administration (Benedictine).

Travis and Paola have one daughter and enjoy the outdoors in Alaska.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ua7t5p0bvcry2y2e1dp6i/AUUFJuly2024.pdf?rlkey=pnpfq0uwt6ca05qfze6u3hz24&dl=0

Some interesting websites -

http://www.citizensclimatelobby.org

http://www.ThirdAct.org

http://www.350.org

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-record-breaking-heat-in-the-atlantic/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1cdf50Zt6ph8l26eXPl8Q80GjHIgHBajfpaQPNjSKcK1IBSikaEAzcw5A_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/10/what-can-you-do-about-climate-change-take-this-quiz-to-find-out/

https://drawdown.org

Travis;s pubs -https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/physics-and-astronomy/faculty/rector.cshtml

Color astronomical images - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/