Chelen Johnson
Mining current optical and infrared databases to find variable active galactic nuclei.
Science is hard! ;-) Also, it is worth the work!
I have begun to grasp the mind-boggling amount of data being produced by this [astronomical] infrastructure.
It was very special to be in the room when the announcement of planet Kepler 10b (an estimated 1.4 X the size of the Earth) was discovered. I turned to my student Inga and asked, "How does it feel to be one of the first people on planet Earth to know about this discovery?" She replied, "I never thought of it like that ... it's pretty cool."
