Maikalani Public Talks Video Archive

2024
Guy Jette	University of Arizona	Feb 16	The Captivating Polar Lights
2018
Mark Willman	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 19	Climate Predictions: What Should We Do?
Dan Tepfer		Feb 08	Listening to Planetary Orbits: Finding Music in the Solar System and Beyond
Günther Hasinger	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jan 26	Astronomy’s Limitless Journey
2017
Paul Schumacher	Air Force Research Labs	Nov 17	The Future Satellite Catalog
Mark Willman	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 27	The Scientific Climate
Thomas Lowe	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jul 28	Pan-STARRS — A Maui Marvel
Claire Raftery	National Solar Observatory	Jun 16	Building Solar Spectacles
Mark Willman	UH Institute for Astronomy	Apr 28	Seven Seas for Seven Brothers
Erica Sawczynec, Nakoa Gerard, Celeste Jongeneelen		Mar 31	The Interest In Our Stars
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	Feb 24	There and Back Again: An Astronomer’s Tale
Russ Genet	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jan 27	Small Telescope Research Communities of Practice
2016
Sarah Jaeggli	UH Institute for Astronomy	Dec 02	When Sunspots Collide
Gary Greenberg	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 07	Sand Grains in Space in 3D
Sifan Kahale	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 07	Pan-STARRS
Joe Ritter	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 07	Advanced Starship Propulsion
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	Sep 16	Exoplanets Discovering New Worlds
Tom Schad	UH Institute for Astronomy	Aug 26	I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Rain — on the Sun
Svetlana Berdyugina	University of Freiburg, Germany and UH NASA Astrobiology Institute Senior Fellow	Jul 15	Communication With Alien Life
Laura Ulibarri	AMOS	Jun 10	AMOS: a sampling of random interesting historical facts about the AMOS site on Haleakala
Marc Millis	NASA	May 13	Challenges and Approaches to Star Flight
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	Apr 09	Armstrong’s Guide To The Universe
Marcelo Emilio	Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil	Mar 04	New Discoveries In The Solar System
Juan M. Uson	Observatoire de Paris	Feb 05	The Universe in 2016 — A House of Cards
2015
Mizuki Yoneda	UH Institute for Astronomy	Nov 20	Astronomy With A Small Telescope
Jeff Kuhn	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 23	Existential Education
Tom Schad	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 23	How to Take a Half Million Pictures of the Sun Every Day
Gary Greenberg	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 23	Sand From the Earth to the Moon
Sifan Kahale	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 23	A Virtual Tour of the Observatories
Sifan Kahale	UH Institute for Astronomy	Sep 25	PanSTARRs Operations Using Avatars in the Virtual World
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	Aug 28	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, How Do We Know What You Are?
Gary Greenberg	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jun 26	The Art & History of the Microscope
Dan O’Gara	UH Institute for Astronomy	May 29	Laser Ranging at Haleakalā Observatories
Tom Schad	UH Institute for Astronomy	Apr 24	Life Around Our Active Star
Jeff Kuhn	UH Institute for Astronomy	Mar 20	Making Telescopes to Look for Life in the Universe
Paul Coleman	UH Institute for Astronomy	Feb 20	The Fractal Nature of the Universe
Guy Jette	University of Arizona	Jan 23	Exploring Alien Seas
2014
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	Dec 05	How a Telescope Works
Andre Fehlmann	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 17	How to Build an Instrument for the New Solar Telescope on Haleakalā
Hiromu Nakagawa	Tohoku University	Aug 29	Remote Sensing of Martian Life: Evidence from Mt. Haleakalā
Gary Davis	Joint Astronomy Centre	Aug 01	Beyond the (Visible) Fringe: British Astronomy on Mauna Kea
Jerry Isdale	Maui Makers	Jul 25	The Grand Asteroid Challenge
Idan Ginsburg	Stonehill College	Jun 13	Supermassive Black Holes, Hypervelocity Stars, and Planets... Oh My!
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	May 23	The Properties of Asteroids
Stuart Jeffries	UH Institute for Astronomy	Apr 25	Looking into the Hearts of the Solar System
Doug Turnbull	Science Fiction Author	Apr 11	Mid Century Life on Mars
Mark Willman	UH Institute for Astronomy	Mar 28	Gold Rush in Space
Guy Jette	University of Arizona	Feb 21	Journey to Ancient Star Clusters
Alan Tokunaga	UH Institute for Astronomy, IRTF	Jan 10	Telescopes Big and Small
2013
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy, LCOGT	Nov 22	What Makes the Sun Shine? An Introduction to Solar Physics
PS1 All-Sky-Cam	Haleakalā Summit	Oct 27	An Amazing Lightning Storm!
Marcelo Emilio	Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil	Oct 25	A Thousand Worlds
Jeff Kuhn	UH Institute for Astronomy	Sep 27	How to Find an Alien
Gary Greenberg	UH Institute for Astronomy	Sep 27	The Universe in a Grain of Sand
Joe Ritter	UH Institute for Astronomy	Sep 27	Laboratory Melange
Sifan Kahale	PS1 Software Engineer	Sep 27	PanSTARRS Observing
Ron Garan	Astronaut	Jul 05	The Orbital Perspective
Alex Filippenko	US Berkeley	Jul 02	Beautiful Atmospheric Sights
Paul Coleman	UH Institute for Astronomy	May 24	Hawaiians and Astronomers
Karen Meech	UH NASA Astrobiology Institute	Apr 26	Cosmic Snowballs
Gary Greenberg	UH Institute for Astronomy	Mar 22	The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things: How Science Has Changed Our Perception of Light, Space, and Time.
Jeff Kuhn	UH Institute for Astronomy	Feb 19	Fermi’s Paradox Revisited
Guy Jette	University of Arizona	Jan 18	Kitt Peak and the Observatories of Southern Arizona
Syun-Ichi Akasofu	International Arctic Research Center	Jan 18	Auroral Substorms
2012
Sho Okano	Tohoku University, Japan	Nov 16	Observing Planets from Haleakalā: Looking for traces of life on other planets
Svetlana Berdyugina	University of Freiburg, Germany and UH NASA Astrobiology Institute Senior Fellow	Oct 19	How to Find Life on Other Planets
Alex Filippenko	UC Berkeley	Aug 02	A Universe of Universes? Reflections on Life and the Cosmos
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy, LCOGT	Jul 20	Student Research with the Faulkes Telescopes
Debra Fischer	Yale University	Jun 04	Searching for Earths
Stuart Jeffries	UH Institute for Astronomy	May 18	A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (As Long As It Is Not Too Blurred)
Marcelo Emilio	Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil	Apr 21	The New Solar System
Joe Ritter	UH Institute for Astronomy	Mar 16	Light Pollution on Maui
Transit of Venus	Maui Astronomy Club & Haleakalā Amateur Astronomers	Jan 27	Amateur Astronomy
2011
Günther Hasinger	UH Institute for Astronomy	Nov 16	Black Holes and the Fate of the Universe
Dr. David Dearborn	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Nov 11	Armageddon
Dr. Dave Sanders	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 14	Galactic Cannibalism
Alex Filippenko	UC Berkeley	Aug 15	Hearts of Darkness Black Holes in Space
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jul 22	Exoplanets Discovering New Worlds
Don Kurtz	University of Central Lancashire	Jun 02	Songs of the Stars
Cooper Downs	UH Institute for Astronomy	May 21	Solar Tsunamis
Adalbert Ding	Technische Universitat Berlin	Apr 08	Physics of Music
JD Armstrong	UH Institute for Astronomy, LCOGT	Mar 24	Ninja Asteroids
Garrett Lisi	Independent Researcher	Feb 25	The Geometric Theory of Everything
Rob Ratkowski (HAA) Rebecca Sydney (MAC) Casey Fukuda (HAA) Steve McGee (HAA)	Haleakalā Amateur Astronomers & Maui Astronomy Club	Jan 21	Amateur Astronomy Night
2010
Marcelo Emilio	São Paulo University (Brazil)	Nov 19	Astrobiology
Haosheng Lin	UH Institute for Astronomy	Oct 22	Solar Eclipse French Polynesia July 11
Klaus Keil	School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), UH Manoa	Aug 13	Meteorites - Probes of the Early History of the Solar System
Gareth Wynn-Williams	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jul 23	The Antikythera Mechanism: An Ancient Astronomical Computer
Alex Filippenko	UC Berkeley	Jun 24	Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe
Gary Greenberg	UH Institute for Astronomy	May 21	The Art of Science: From Cave Paintings to Computers
John Pye	UH Maui College	Apr 16	Astronomy Research and Internship Opportunities at UH Maui College
Wayne Rosing	Las Cumbres Observatory	Feb 12	Las Cumbres Observatory: We Keep You in the Dark!
Jeff Kuhn	UH Institute for Astronomy	Jan 22	Could the Sun be Shrinking?
2007
Jeff Kuhn	São Paulo University (Brazil)	May 21	Important Truth