Dr. Jason Best,
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and
Observatory Director

Telephone: 304-876-5331

Email: jbest@shepherd.edu

Personal WWW:
http://webpages.shepherd.edu/jbest/

Education:
  • B.S. Indiana University 
  • Ph.D. Penn State University

 

Recent Papers

Changuris, Andrea, Smith, Travis, Tice, Elijah, Ellis, Justin, and Best, Jason. 2007. The Development of an Initial Light Pollution Map for the Area surrounding the Shepherd University Observatory (published in the Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science in the July 2007 issue, Vol. 78, No. 2, p. 1)

Stritch, Teresa, and Best, Jason. 2005. A Java 3D Visualization Application For Research Use In Astronomy (published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges in the December 2005 issue, Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 49)