User:KarenLMasters

I'm a Professor of Astronomy and Physics working at Haverford College. I used to be also affiliated with the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth (2008-2019). You can find out more about me and my work in astronomy on my [https://klmasters.sites.haverford.edu/ personal website]. I am the Principle Investigator for the Galaxy Zoo project, and also the Spokesperson for Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV. I maintain a personal blog where I write occasional articles about science, science engagement and issues surrounding women in science http://thebeautifulstars.blogspot.co.uk/ Beautiful Stars. I am active on Twitter, where you can follow me as [https://twitter.com/KarenLMasters @KarenLMasters].

I am not a frequently wikipedia editor, but I dabble sometimes. I joined in with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADA | Royal Society Wiki-a-thon] to improve articles on women in science. So far so good with this, and it was exciting that Isis Pogson was listed as a Did You Know fact on 15th November 2012. I also just edited the page on Sgr A* with some new information about a possible infalling gas cloud. My articles on astronomy for the [http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/ Curious? Ask an Astronomer] site from Cornell University are widely cited in wikipedia articles.

On 13th September 2014 I helped run a Wiki-a-thon style event for improving coverage of Citizen Science on Wikipedia User:Mike Peel/Zooniverse.

I've updated the article on Mary Somerville, which was used to create content for Lottie Stargzer Doll. I've also written a book chapter about Mary Somerville which appears in the anthology [http://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Passion-Science-Journeys-into-ebook/dp/B016IPLS4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450267073&sr=8-1&keywords=more+passion+for+science More Passion for Science: Journeys into the Unknown] (available as a Kindle book on Amazon), published in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day.

After a long discussion within the project, I was pleased that as of August 2017 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Sloan_Digital_Sky_Survey_Images SDSS images have been changed to CCBY license] - which I hope will enable broader use on Wikipedia. Link to SDSS category on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sloan_Digital_Sky_Survey

===== Articles about people (mostly women in astronomy) I have edited/created =====

• Martha Haynes
• Lisa Kaltenegger
• Anne Walker (astronomer) - worked at Cambridge Observatory for years. May have been first women (after Caroline Herschel) to have participated in formal night observing
• Isis Pogson - worked with her father for 24 years, has asteroid named after her (42 Isis)
• Mary Evershed (nee Orr) - expert on astronomy in the works on Dante (among other things)
• Ayanna Howard - who builds cool robots (and had a flag about needing better citations on her page).
• Martha-Elizabeth Baylor - Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Carleton College and Chair of the American Physical Society Committee on Education needs a page.
• David Matravers - Founder of the ICG.