Lei
Gina's lei on our balcony at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
Beachside deck
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
Walkways
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
W. M. Keck Observatory
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.
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.
NIRC
The Keck near-infrared camera. I used this instrument in grad school, and now it's a museum piece.
Torches
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii. These were lit each evening by a man blowing a conch shell.
Ground Floor
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
Hale Pohaku visitors' center
At 9000 feet elevation, on the way to the Mauna Kea summit.
Hale Pohaku from nearby caldera
"I'll take the coral necklace, please"
Spouting Horn market, Kauai
Kīlauea Point NWR
Kauai
Kīlauea Point Lighthouse
Kauai
Rebuildable
Self-portrait with minerals
Under the spell of the Freemasons