Greg Bothun

Professor, Department of Physics
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon,
UNITED STATES

Biography

Greg Bothun received a Ph. D. in Astrophysics in 1981 from the University of Washington. He is an inaugural member of ISI's Highly Cited Researchers in Space Sciences in the period of 1980-2000. He was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 2001/2002 and was scientific Editor of the Astrophysical Journal from 1996-2002. He has been using Instructional Technology as a major portion of curriculum delivery in the classroom since 1993 and has been offering courses via Distance Education since 1997. He teaches classes in astronomy, atmospheric science, physics, science and culture, energy policy, and environmental data methods. Via various external funding he has developed a full suite of interactive classroom tools that allow for instructor developed content, simulations and exercises to be pushed out to individual student laptops for analysis and manipulation and then those results are published back to a global canvas in the classroom.