Loren Anderson
Professor
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Education
Ph.D., Boston University, 2009
B.A., Whitman College, 2002
Research
Dr. Anderson's research concerns Galactic HII regions the plasma spheres surrounding massive stars, and what they can teach us about the structure of our Galaxy. He has led the GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey, the WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions, and the HII Region Discovery Survey.
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He also leads the astrophysics REU program, which brings ~8 undergraduate researchers to our department every summer, and the Mapping the Milky Way outreach project, where West Virginian high school students discover new Galactic HII regions with the Green Bank Telescope.
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