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Curriculum Vitae

John Caleb Barentine

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Education

​Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin (2013)
M.A. Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin (2008)
​M.S. Physics, Colorado State University (2002)
B.S. Physics, University of Arizona (1998)​

Employment

International Dark Sky Association
Director of Conservation (2018-present)
  • Responsibility for the International Dark Sky Places certification program
  • Lead dark skies and outdoor lighting public policy initiatives
  • IDA liaison to the international artificial light at night scientific research community
Program Manager (2013-2017)

University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Astronomy
Postdoctoral Researcher (2013)
Research Intern (2011-2012)
  • Abundances of Galactic High- and Intermediate-Velocity Clouds from ultraviolet spectroscopy

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Astronomy
Graduate Teaching Assistant (2008-2012)
Graduate Research Assistant (2006-2011)
  • High-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of high-mass star forming regions (2006-2009)
  • Secular evolution of disk galaxies (2009-2011)

Apache Point Observatory
Observer, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004-2006)
  • Operation of the SDSS 2.5m telescope; development of procedures and documentation; quality assurance
Observing Specialist I/II, Astrophysical Research Consortium (2001-2004)
  • Engineering, operations, and remote user support, ARC 3.5-meter telescope
  • Engineering, basic maintenance and observing, New Mexico State University 1-meter telescope
  • APO liaison to the University of Colorado Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) for development of the Near Infrared Camera Fabry-Pérot Spectrometer (NIC-FPS)

Colorado State University, Department of Physics
Graduate Teaching Assistant (1999-2001)
Graduate Research Assistant (1999)
  • Scanning Hall probe microscopy of magnetic flux vortices in superconducting metals

Intel Corporation Digital Imaging Operation
Summer Intern (1996)
  • Research and characterization of consumer digital cameras
  • Design and specification work on the Intel Pocket PC Camera

National Solar Observatory
Research Assistant (1995-1999)
  • Properties of solar active regions and contribution of various activity features to overall solar flux rate (1998-1999)
  • Acoustic holography of terrestrial lightning (1997)
  • Reduction and archival of raw helioseismic imagery collected at the South Pole during the austral summer of 1994-1995 (1995-1997)​

Selected Publications

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ORCID: 0000-0002-7042-068X
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Books
  • Uncharted Constellations (Springer International Publishing, 2016)
  • The Lost Constellations (Springer International Publishing, 2015)

Journal Articles
  • "Skyglow Changes Over Tucson, Arizona, Resulting From A Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversion" (J. Barentine et al.), Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2018), 212, 10. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.038
  • "Going for the Gold: Quantifying and Ranking Visual Night Sky Quality in International Dark Sky Places" (J. Barentine), International Journal of Sustainable Lighting, 35, 1, 9 (2016) doi:10.26607/ijsl.v18i0.16
  • “A Comparative Astrochemical Study of the High Mass Protostellar Objects NGC 7538 IRS 9 and IRS 1” (J. Barentine, J. Lacy), Astrophysical Journal, 757, 111 (2012) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/111
  • “Two Pseudobulges in the ‘Boxy Bulge’ Galaxy NGC 5746” (J. Barentine, J. Kormendy), Astrophysical Journal, 754, 140 (2012) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/140
  • “Detection of a Pseudobulge Hidden Inside the ‘Box-shaped Bulge’ of NGC 4565” (J. Kormendy, J. Barentine), Astrophysical Journal Letters, 715, 176 (2010) doi:10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/140
  • “Capacitive position sensor with simultaneous, linear X-Y readout” (S. Field, J. Barentine), Review of Scientific Instruments, 71, 6, 2603 (2000) doi:10.1063/1.1150656
  • “Barnard’s Merope Nebula (IC 349): an Interstellar Interloper” (J. Barentine, G. Esquerdo), Astronomical Journal, 117, 1402 (1999) doi:10.1086/300760

​Proceedings
  • “Detection of a Distinct Pseudobulge Hidden Inside the ’Box-Shaped Bulge’ of NGC 4565” (Galaxy Evolution: Emerging Insights and Future Challenges, UTexas, November 2008)
  • "Distances to the High Velocity Clouds: A Forty-Year Mystery on the Way to Solution" (Frank N. Bash Symposium, UTexas, 2007) 

Education and
​Public Outreach

Instruction
  • AST 301: Introduction to Astronomy, UT, Spring 2013 (teaching assistant)
  • AST 307: Introductory Astronomy, UT, Fall 2012 (teaching assistant)
  • ​AST 309N: The Lives and Deaths of Stars, UT, Spring 2012 (teaching assistant)
  • AST 352K: Stellar Astronomy, UT, Fall 2011 (teaching assistant)
  • AST 152M: Stellar Astronomy Laboratory, UT, Fall 2011 (teaching assistant)
  • AST 351: Astronomical Instrumentation, UT, Fall 2008 (teaching assistant)
  • AA 101: Astronomy Laboratory, CSU, Fall 2000-Summer 2001 (instructor of record)
  • PH 315: Modern Physics Laboratory, CSU, Spring 2000 (teaching assistant)
  • PH 110: Descriptive Physics, CSU, Fall 1999 (teaching assistant)

Advising
  • Graduate student: Gloria Kaasch-Buerger (University of Colorado at Denver M.S. committee, 2015-16)
  • Undergraduate student: Amy Juan (NOAO; 2014)
  • Graduate student: John Kanemoto (NOAO; 2014)
  • Undergraduate student: Justin Hickey (UT; 2012-13)

Outreach
  • Apache Point Observatory outreach activities (2001-2006)
  • Kitt Peak National Observatory Visitor Center (Docent, 1994-1997)
  • Flandrau Planetarium, University of Arizona (Telescope Operator, 1994-1997)

Professional Affiliations

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993-present)
  • ​American Astronomical Society (2000-present)
    • Historical Astronomy Division (2015-present)
    • Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference and Space Debris (2017-present)
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Dark Skies Advisory Group (2016-present)
  • University of Utah Consortium for Dark Sky Studies Governing Committee (2017-present)
  • Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative Steering Committee (2017-present)

Honors

  • Board of Visitors Graduate Student Endowment Fund Scholarship (UT Austin, 2008-2009 and 2011- 2012)
  • Asteroid (14505) Barentine (2007)
  • 2nd Place, National Outstanding Young Astronomer Award, Astronomical League (1994)
  • 1st Place, Physical Sciences Division, Student Poster Competition, AAAS Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, 1994)
  • Arizona delegate, Honors Research Program, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY, 1994) 
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