August 10 speaker - Craig Nance
Posted by Karen Bogisch
Our speaker August 10 is Craig Nance, the Superintendent of the McDonald Observatory. He started in that position at the beginning of 2015. Mr. Nance came to the McDonald Observatory from The University of Arizona’s Mount Graham International Observatory, where he was the director. Prior to that, he was Operations Engineering Manager at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Nance worked at McDonald Observatory. Among other positions, he served as Facility Manager of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.
The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, hosts multiple telescopes undertaking a wide range of astronomical research under the darkest night skies of any professional observatory in the continental United States. McDonald is home to the consortium-run Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), one of the world's largest, which is now being upgraded to begin the HET Dark Energy Experiment. An internationally known leader in astronomy education and outreach, McDonald Observatory is also pioneering the next generation of astronomical research as a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
