Monday, September 15 from 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Observing the Universe with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
Ray A. Lucas grew up on a farm north of Hillsborough, NC, attending Orange High School. He attended UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, and later Johns Hopkins University while an employee at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied not only astronomy, but also geology, oceanography, and various biological and related sciences, as well as classical archaeology. He plays music, loves photography, art, and drawing, and was briefly on the last UNC freshman basketball team in the Fall of 1971 until a pre-season career-ending ankle injury.
Ray has worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute in a number of different areas since July 1985 and was a member of the original Hubble Deep Field Team. He was one of the 17 co-authors of the Astronomical Journal article about Hubble, which was judged by some as one of the 100 most important publications in Astronomy in the past 2,000 years. He has also taken part as a co-Investigator in many other peer-selected Hubble programs and is currently a co-Investigator on approximately 15 peer-selected James Webb Science Telescope science programs.