NIGHT SKY METRICS - Key Persons
Educated in the United Kingdom, Simon Balm has a wide range of interests including chemistry, experimental physics, astronomy, computer science and education. In graduate school at the University of Sussex he worked with the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Harold Kroto and held postdoctoral research positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the past decade he has been collaborating with the National Park Service in the development of advanced instrumentation and software for the collection and analysis of sky brightness.