Dr. Chick Keller

PEEC News:

Dr. Chick Keller will share stories of eclipse missions in the 1970s during his talk this Friday, March 8 in the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium. Dr. Keller will share insights about the 1970s airborne studies of the sun’s corona during total solar eclipses – conducted at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL). By taking the airborne eclipse observations, lab scientists, including Keller and Art Cox, could extend their totality study and reduce interference from the atmosphere. He will talk about the successes and failures of some of these missions, sharing fantastic photographs of the corona.

Dr. Keller has been a fixture in Los Alamos since 1967 when he first came as a LASL student, and then as an employee from 1969 to 2001. For the last 13 years of his tenure, he was director of the University of California’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics-LANL branch. Dr. Keller is a founder of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), having done everything from building shelves at the initial PEEC location, serving as PEEC Board President, to establishing the Jemez Mountain Herbarium. 

For more information about this PEEC astronomy program, visit the following link, Eclipse Stories with Chick Keller. For other PEEC programs, visit peecnature.org/events, email kristen@peecnature.org, or call 505.662.0460.

About PEEC:

PEEC was founded in 2000 to serve the community of Los Alamos. It offers people of all ages a way to enrich their lives by strengthening their connections to our canyons, mesas, mountains, and skies. PEEC operates the Los Alamos Nature Center at 2600 Canyon Road, holds regular programs and events, and hosts several interest groups, from birding to hiking to butterfly-watching.