MARTIN GASKELL
PERSONAL HOMEPAGE
This is me with the family
after the 2009 3M half marathon in Austin, TX.
(I’m wearing a medal because
they gave one to everybody at the finish – not because I won anything!)
NEW: YouTube music videos: “Pi Acres” Suite
(complete) Performance
of "Fantasia for Viola and Orchestra" O Haupt voll Blut
und Wunden
I
am currently an astrophysicist in the Astronomy Department at the University of
Texas. However, our family is preparing
for the big adventure of moving down to South America where I have recently accepted
a professorship in Chile. Chile is
where a large fraction of the world’s largest telescopes are, so it’s an
exciting place for astronomy! My wife,
Barbara, lived in Chile a long time ago very near where we’re moving. If you want to learn about my research you
can go to my current astrophysics home page at http://www.as.utexas.edu/~gaskell/.
We’re a pretty scientific family. Barbara is a micropaleontologist
by training (likes to look at little dead critters from millions of years
ago). Our eldest son is a sophomore honors
computer science major, our middle son is applying to universities to study
geosciences, and our daughter wants to be a biological researcher (interested
in critters that are still alive!).
I am also a composer of what is popularly called
“classical” music. If you are interested in my
music go to http://incolor.inebraska.com/gaskell/compose.html
(you can hear MP3s and download
some PDF files of sample pages of sheet music).
We sing and play music together a lot as a family.
OTHER
INTERESTS:
Running –
long distance (between 5 km and half marathons). Our whole family runs.
Dancing
– I love American square and contra dancing (contras are my favorite) and
English country dancing. I’ve also done
some Irish and Scottish country dancing.
Our family helped start the Lincoln Contra Dances.
Telescope
making – see here for some picture
of telescope mirror making parties.
Relationship
between faith and science – Modern
Astronomy, the Bible, and Creation [web page link]
– Modern
Astronomy, the Bible, and Creation [printable PDF
file]
–
list of Bible verses about astronomy, the origin of the
universe, etc. [PDF file]
E-mail
me: gaskell [at] astro.as.utexas.edu