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- Hale Pohaku from nearby caldera
- Hale Pohaku visitors' center
At 9000 feet elevation, on the way to the Mauna Kea summit. - Ground Floor
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Torches
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii. These were lit each evening by a man blowing a conch shell. - Insurance saleslizard
Big Island Brewhaus, Waimea, Hawaii - NIRC
The Keck near-infrared camera. I used this instrument in grad school, and now it's a museum piece. - Keck logo window
Window in the rear of the visitors' center, facing the ops rooms. When observing, we would spend the night in the ops rooms, directing the observations and reviewing the data. - LRIS slitmask
A slitmask for the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer at Keck. A lot of my time in grad school was spent designing these slitmasks. Each of the slits corresponded to a (candidate) high-redshift galaxy whose spectrum we wanted to collect. - W. M. Keck Observatory
- Walkways
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Beachside deck
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Lei
Gina's lei on our balcony at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Martian waterfall
Waimea Canyon, Kauai - Mokihana Valley
Kauai - Waimea Canyon overlook
Kauai - Spouting Horn
At this lava tube on the south shore of Kauai, the waves are redirected upwards, producing a geyser-like effect. - Tide pool
Punaluʻu Beach, Hawaii - Pahoehoe
Punaluʻu Beach, Hawaii - Waves on black sand
Punaluʻu Beach, Hawaii - Need ID
Anyone know what this is?