Welcome to my little corner of the Web. The background is a photograph of the Orion Nebula taken by the Big Throughput Camera, mounted on the 4-meter Blanco Telescope on Cerro Tololo, Chile.
Some diving photos are here .
I am in my fourth year of graduate school here at Caltech. I study space physics. This is where the background comes from. The University of Maryland , my somewhat more recent alma mater. Here, the planes are so close that if you're not careful, you'll bang your head on WWII steel.