Chuck Wood
Charles A. "Chuck" Wood is executive director of the Center for Educational Technologies® and NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future.
2005-present | Executive director, Center for Educational Technologies and NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV |
2004-present | Senior scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ |
2001-2003 | Director of education, Columbia University—Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ |
1991-2000 | Director, North Dakota Space Grant & NASA EPSCoR programs, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
1990-2000 | Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
1985-1989 | Chief, Space Shuttle Earth Observations Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX |
1980-1985 | Space scientist, Experimental Planetology Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX |
1979-1980 | Senior research associate (Rift Tectonics), National Research Council, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD |
1978-1979 | Smithsonian Research Fellow (Volcanology) Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC |
1975-1978 | Graduate research assistant (Planetary Geology), Department of Geological Science, Brown University, Providence, RI |
1973-1975 | Assistant professor (Research), Geophysical Observatory, Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
1969-1973 | Graduate research assistant (Planetary Science), Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
1967-1968 | Volunteer teacher, Peace Corps, Kenya |
1962-1966 | Undergraduate research assistant (Lunar Mapping), Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
Education
1965 B.S. (Astronomy); 1972 M.S. (Geophysics), University of Arizona, Tucson
1977 M.S. (Geology); 1979 Ph.D. (Planetary Geology) Brown University, Providence, RI
Publications
Wood, C. A. (2007). The Moon Wiki website.
Wood, C. A. (2005). Chuck Wood's Moon: Compendium of Lunar Science and History website.
Wood, C. A. (2004). Lunar Photo of the Day website.
Wood, C. A. (2003). The New Moon: A personal view. Cambridge, MA: Sky.
Wood, C. A., & Kienle, J. (1990). Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Grieve, R., Wood, C. A., et al. (1988). Astronaut's guide to terrestrial impact craters. Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Plus 50 peer-reviewed papers, about 300 total papers, conference publications, abstracts, and oral presentations at national and international meetings. More than 100 monthly lunar columns in Sky & Telescope since 1999.