Professor’s stargazing leads to top scholarship
UNIVERSITY of Southern Queensland Astronomy Professor Brad Carter will soon be delving deeper into some of the world’s biggest questions as the recipient of a prestigious scholarship to travel to the USA.
The Centre for Astrophysics Director has long looked to the stars to reflect on Earthly problems and, as part of his Fulbright Future Scholarship project, will focus on three key areas.
“For the first part of the project, we will be surveying stars to learn more about our sun and the future of solar activity extremes,” he said.
“Secondly, we will be enhancing a world-leading wildfire and bushfire detection system that began with techniques to detect exploding stars in distant galaxies.”
Professor Carter will travel to the United States next year to conduct his research at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, the University of Louisville, the University of Colorado, and the University of California Berkeley.