Astrophiz Podcasts

This is the first of our series of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we’ll be publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories. Astrophiz 68: Dr Jane Kaczmarek -Ultra wide band receiver commissioning scientist PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave Today’s feature interview is with Dr Jane Kaczmarek, @jfKaczmarek, who gives us the state of play on the new receivers on the 64m Parkes dish and what it’s like to work climbing way up above the dish to do her work in the focus cabin. Back in June in Episode 60, Jane told us about growing up in Wisconsin and how her love of astronomy developed, and how her penchant for asking questions and her serendipitous move out to Australia and how her PhD on immense magnetic fields spanning the Magellanic Clouds has lead her to work with the CSIRO as the commissioning scientist for the UWL receiver on the 64m Parkes dish that bought us vision of t