User:Zandperl

zandperl is a science teacher in New England.

This user is a crazy bird lady.

This user is an astrogeek.

This user is a geek, nerd, and just a bit of a dork.

os This user uses an operating system.

This user is fascinated by science.

This user feels that education is important.

I am familiar with the process of peer review as regards professional papers published in restrictive science journals. I am fascinated to see how a more open process evolves here at Wikipedia. Check out my blog at Modern Science. My birthday is 26 January. I've been a user since 20 October 2003.

Resources

• Wikipedia:Footnotes
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• Wikipedia:Cite#How_to_ask_for_citations
• Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion
• {{citationneeded}}
• {{technical}} (Template:Technical, for the talk page)
• {{wiki}} or {{Wikify-date|March 2006}}
• {{Unreferenced|article|date=February 2007}}
• {{NPOV}}
• {{POV-article}}
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention and Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Userboxen

Current Projects

None

To Do

Things I can work on when I run out of the other stuff above.

• Fix redundancy of Image:Spitzer Valentine.jpg and Image:NGC 7129a.jpg
• Feather-plucking - need more info and citations.
• Lan Mandragoran - reorganize content w/in sections
• Stull Observatory - picture and telescopes
• Omega (cosmology/astronomy) (also density of the universe or density parameter) - page needs creating
• Steward Observatory - Kitt Peak National Observatory - Kitt Peak's 12-meter telescope (page unknown)
• H-alpha
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Telescopes
• Homosexuality in animals (more referenced examples)
• Corning Glass Works
• FCRAO
• Nançay Radio Telescope
• Meudon, France
• Nançay, France
• Alfred University - reinstate things removed w/ documentation
• hero sandwich
• astronomer
• answer
• JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab)

Have contributed

These are pages which I've either started or made a contribution of which I am currently proud, however I am not necessarily sole contributor. That means I really want YOU to make them better yet. Expect this list to change occasionally. Asterisked (*) articles are featured articles. Alphabetized.

• 2MASS
• graduate school
• Hidradenitis suppurativa (skin condition)
• Hubble Space Telescope (*)
• National Science Foundation
• orders of approximation
• Otis Blackwell
• Rock, Paper, Scissors (*) / Rock, Paper, Scissors variations
• Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly known as SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility)
• Greensburg, Kansas / Big Well (Kansas)

Images

Below are the images I've taken and/or uploaded (but taken by others).

Taken by me

Peeper, on Cockatiel	Nançay Radio Telescope primary, on Nançay Radio Telescope	Nançay Radio Telescope carriage, on Nançay Radio Telescope	Cockatiel with a plucked chest, on Feather-plucking
Cockatiel with a plucked shoulder, on Feather-plucking

Taken by others

All images are public domain; further information available on the image page.

IRAS (InfraRed Astronomical Satellite), on IRAS and Portal:Space exploration/Picture/Week 7 2007

NGC 7129, on Spitzer Space Telescope

Spitzer first light image, unused. (Spitzer was formerly called SIRTF, Space InfraRed Telescope Facility.)

Others I haven't yet put here.

Deleted images

The following public domain images that I uploaded are no longer used and therefore deleted.

• Burrowing owl held by a human on burrowing owl.