Ethan Gutmann
[an error occurred while processing this directive] This site is moving to EthanGutmann.com, please redirect links by Sept. 15th. In theory, aster.colorado.edu will disappear on Aug 12th (it hasn't yet). CU is shutting down outside website access, and I will be moving to NCAR.
I am currently a Post-doc at the University of Colorado in sunny Boulder, Colorado. I grew up in Middletown, CT, and went to high school at Middletown Public High School. From there I went to Williams College in Massachusettes. In 1999, I graduated with a bachelors in geology and computer science. Shortly thereafter I moved to Boulder for graduate school and haven't left yet.
An aster is a star shaped flower, though it may refer to any star shaped object (asterisk, astronomy, asteroid?... ah, etymology). As I began my graduate career in remote sensing, and one star in particular is the source of most of the light we are interested in from the satellites point of view, aster became my computer name, and this site was born. More recently, aster is the name of a sensor on the Terra satellite (which I don't use, go figure).
The Photography section contains numerous photos I have taken over the past several years, many with a small pentax digital camera and a casio z750, some were scanned from fuji provia and velvia slides taken with a pentax K1000. I have finally gone through and divided my photos into galleries of some of my favorite shots (that really need to be updated). If you don't see your favorite shot, check the archive. Recently, I entered the world of digital SLRs with a Nikon D80.
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The Professional section contains information about this whole graduate school thing, what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, relevant links, and a short CV. There are also links to PDFs of published papers/posters/abstracts. I also occasionally write for Nobel Intent at arstechnica.com
The Software section contains information on software I have written. At the moment it is limited to my wos2bib tool, my TextMate IDL bundle, and my IDL archive. I hope to update this in the future (but first I need to write more software :).
Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.
- The Principia Discordia
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
- Polish proverb
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