AIR Blog

Prof. Mary-Helen Armour is faculty at York University. She teaches a number of science courses in the Natural Science Division. Her background is both Astronomy (Masters in Physics and Astronomy) and Earth Sciences (PhD in near surface geophysics and modelling). She has a interest in a range of astronomy topics - From historical astronomy and how the sky was a resource as a calendar and navigation, to planetary sciences, the possibility of finding life somewhere other than earth and asteroid impact structures.

Mary-Hellen's Blog

Veronika is an astronomy Phd candidate at McMaster University studying globular star cluster populations around distant, massive galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope. She is also a presenter at the W.J. McCallion planetarium and a coordinator for McMaster’s sidewalk astronomy program. She is a life-long hiking, camping, and canoeing enthusiast and is over the moon (pun intended) that she gets to combine her passions for astronomy and the outdoors under the dark skies of Killarney!

Veronika's Blog

Bruce has been teaching astronomy to the public since 1981 and in the provincial park system every year since 1985. He was at the McLaughlin Planetarium as star theatre operator, producer and educator and ran the last public star show with the hope that, one day, the stars would shine down upon Toronto again. He also authored "A camper's guide to the universe" in 2012" and is the author of the Ontario Parks monthly astronomy blog. Finally, he is the co-founder of Stars over Killarney - an annual astronomy program featuring topics that connect to the Park (2018).

Bruce's Blog