NOAO Office of Public Affairs and Educational Outreach
Katy Garmany
Senior Science Education Specialist - Astronomer
Katy’s scientific interest has focused on massive stars, their evolution and environment. In recent years she has turned to science education, first as Director of Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the U of Colorado, then as Director of an innovative college level astronomy semester run by Colombia University at Biopshere 2 in Arizona, and now as an educator at NOAO. She is currently developing and teaching elementary astronomy at Tohono O’odham Community College in Sells, the nearest community to Kitt Peak National Observatory. She is also a past President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, an organization in which she is still very active.
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Phone: 520-318-8526
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Katy’s CV
Aaron Gundy, 1st place winner in astronomy/physics at SARSEF, with mentor Katy Garmany
Katy Garmany is a Senior Science Education Specialist in the Educational Outreach arm of the PAEO department at NOAO.
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