Stacy Mader

Stacy Mader
Born
Wyndham, Western Australia
Alma materUniversity of Wollongong
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsCSIRO
Academic advisors
Bill Zealey

Stacy Lyall Mader is an Australian astronomer. He is a Senior Experimental Scientist at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science,[1] and was the first Aboriginal Australian to obtain a PhD in astronomy.[2]

Early life, education and research

Mader is a Gidja man[3][4] from Wyndham,[5] in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. He received a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from the University of Western Australia in 1993,[6] and then Masters (1995) and PhD (2000) degrees from the University of Wollongong.[6] His PhD thesis, entitled "Giant Herbig-Haro Flows: Identification And Consequences", studied outflows in star-forming regions.[7] His subsequent research has covered neutral and ionized gas in galaxies, protostars, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.[8] Mader was also part of the Voyager II and Mars missions in 2003/2004 respectively.[9]

Career

Mader joined CSIRO's Parkes Observatory in 1999. He supports astronomical observations and spacecraft tracking with Parkes, and observations with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder.[1]

Mader has programmed several astrophysics related tools, an example being a program to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and other planets and any given time.[10]

Honors and awards

  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2003)[11]
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2013)[12]
  • CSIRO Chairman’s Medal (2015)[13]
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2019)[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Stacy". Australian Indigenous Astronomy. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. ^ "Indigenous astronomy". Pursuit. July 24, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2020. There's a whole number of students coming through here and of course the only Aboriginal PhD qualified astrophysicist that I even know of is Doctor Stacy Mader.
  3. ^ "Untitled". Twitter. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  4. ^ "Jack Cusack Memorial Lecture 2016 - CSIRO". events.csiro.au. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  5. ^ "From Wyndham, to Parkes and space…". News | The University Of Western Australia. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Dr Stacy Mader". people.csiro.au. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  7. ^ Mader, Stacy (January 1, 2001). Giant Herbig-Haro flows: identification and consequences. University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016 (Thesis).
  8. ^ "NASA/ADS". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  9. ^ "Stacy Mader's Home Page". www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  10. ^ "Planets". www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  11. ^ "NASA - Lending an Improved Ear". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  12. ^ "LinkedIn - Stacy Mader". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  13. ^ "Chairman's Medal". CSIROpedia. January 13, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  14. ^ "Untitled". Twitter. Retrieved June 10, 2020.

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