Nahks Tr'Ehnl : Résumé

Nahks Tr'Ehnl

Email:
Homepage: http://nahks.com/

Education:

BA in Art with minor in Japanese, May 2001
BS in Astronomy and Astrophysics, May 2003

Experience:
Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics:	Summer 1999 - Fall 2006
web design Web design, illustration, and story writing for online version of introductory astronomy course Illustration for "Exotic Earths: Forming Habitable Worlds with Giant Planet Migration" (Science 8 September 2006) Penn State group webpage for Hubble Space Telescope Project GO-8267: "Taking the Measure of Planets in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae": http://nahks.com/astro/ graphic design Poster designs for the Friedman Lecture Series: 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2006-2007 Logo designs for the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer: X-Ray Telescope, Ultraviolet-Optical Telescope, and Ground Network for Swift public outreach Planning, publicity coordination, and astronomical art exhibit during "AstroFest": 4-night open houses run during Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Summers 1999-2001, 2006 Coordinated free public stargazing events, clear Friday nights during the regular school year Planned trips to observatories, meteor shower viewing parties, and organized programs at regular meetings of the Penn State Astronomy Club (president, Fall 1999 - Spring 2000)
Penn State Centers of Gravity:	Fall 2001 - Fall 2004
graphic design Program cover design for the Graduate Summer School on General Relativistic Hydrodynamics web design Center for Gravitational Wave Physics: http://cgwp.gravity.psu.edu/ Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry: http://igpg.gravity.psu.edu/about.shtml Fourth International LISA Symposium: http://cgwp.gravity.psu.edu/events/lisa/ Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, Director, IGPG: http://igpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/
Penn State Department of Geosciences:	Summer 2003
paleoclimates research Research and computer modeling of greenhouse effects and other parameters of the "Snowball Earth"

Skills:

  Artistic:
    2-D media: pencil, charcoal, pastel, conté, inks, oils, acrylics
    3-D media: metal and ceramic sculpture, glazing, jewelry
    digital media: digital painting, 3-D modeling and animation, photo editing, movie editing
    art history: Japanese, Chinese, Western

  Computer:
    systems: Mac OSX, OS9; Microsoft Windows 95, 98, XP; Unix
    productivity software: Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint; Adobe Acrobat; OpenOffice.org
    graphics packages: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere; Gimp; Strata Studio; DAZ Bryce
    web design: web-optimized graphics, HTML; Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, HomeSite; basic CSS, Javascript