Billy L. Quarles, PhD

Student Engagement

I have a passion for sharing my experience with students by assisting them in engaging research.  My mentoring style seeks to foster skill building so that the students I engage with can apply their knowledge to many different areas.  Below is a list of students who I have mentored as a postdoc, where several of these students have published our work in a major research journal in Astronomy or Astrobiology. 

After my first postdoc at NASA, I spent a full academic year teaching and learning from students a the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK).  As a Visiting Professor, I was able to develop a curriculum for introductory courses in Physics & Astronomy.  Moreover I was able to develop and build new lab experiences, where the video on the right shows one lab I developed.  In this lab, the students learned about streams, floods, and erosion, where they measured the flow rate using a stream table.

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Below is a list of courses that I taught at UNK:

Fall 2015

• Introductory Physics for Non-majors

  • Mechanics, Heat, & Sound​

• Conceptual Physical Science​

Spring 2016

• Introductory Physics for Non-majors

  • Electricity, Magnetism, Optics, & Relativity

• Introductory Astronomy​

  • Planets, Stars, & Cosmology​

• Conceptual Physical Science​

Service is an integral part of the maintenance for a well-functioning academy.  Below is a list of service activities that I have performed for various institutions. 

• Georgia Tech

  • Cosmic Coffee organizer​ for the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics
     

• American Astronomical Society Session Chair​

  • 2018 DPS meeting

  • 2019 DDA meeting​
     

• Academic Journal Reviewer​

  • ​Icarus

  • Astronomical Journal

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

  • Advances in Space Research

  • Physical Letters A

  • Advances in Astronomy
     

• Kepler Working Group​

  • ​Eclipsing Binaries

  • Transit Timing Variations & Multiple Bodies

  • Threshold Crossing Event Review Team (TCERT)
     

• TESS Working Group​

  • Circumbinary Planets​