Dbenford

User:Dbenford/userboxes/barnstars

About Me

This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 10 months and 20 days.

PhD

This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

This user is a member of the Astronomy WikiProject.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Maryland.

This user is a scientist.

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

This user drives a
BMW Z3 Roadster.

prog

This user is a programmer.

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This user can write HTML.

Unix

This user can program in Unix.

BASIC

This user can program in BASIC.

This user lives for
science!

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user has a keen interest in physics.

This user loves abandoned buildings and ghost towns.

This user is interested in The Whirlpool Galaxy.

This user is interested in the Roman Republic.

This user is interested in
Archeology

This user, based on observational evidence and current scientific consensus, believes the universe began with a bang.

This user supports the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ASTR

This user is an expert in Astronomy.

This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.

TCP/IP

The user was active on the Internet before the World Wide Web was invented.

WWW

I am mostly interested in helping to improve astronomy-related articles. I am a NASA astrophysicist and tend to create/edit articles about people and projects that are familiar to me. If you feel any article I work on is too close to me, please let me know.

COI

My work on Wikipedia via this account is my own, entirely voluntary, and does not relate to positions I hold at NASA or on any astronomy projects or astronomy organizations. Nothing I write or do via this account reflect the official position of any of the aforementioned organizations.

My authorships:

Entries to which I have contributed include:

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
NGC 6872 and IC 4970
Childebert I
Childebert II
Ermengarde of Anjou
House of Ingelger
Seaxburh of Wessex
Nancy Grace Roman
Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope now Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Noise-equivalent flux density
Gariannonum
Henry Wriothesley 3rd duke & his mother, Mary Browne
(and my to-do list) Robert Curthose, Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye
Need to look at fixing: Vortigern, Fastrada, Theodrada, Luitgard, Ingerman, Count of Hesbaye.

Edits

I am part of a course taught by Wiki Education that trains scholars in how to edit Wikipedia. Learn more at wikiedu.org. All of my contributions are my own and I take responsibility for them.