projects
I work independently, collaborating with researchers, scientists and AI initiatives on creative and scientific projects. As a volunteer citizen scientist, I share data and assist with data classification efforts to further our understanding of Space.
Blending traditional artistry with cutting-edge AI, I create immersive experiences that explore the beauty of nature, the mysteries of the cosmos, and the boundless potential of imagination. My work spans serene reflections, ethereal landscapes, and bold abstractions, capturing the interplay of light, color, and emotion to evoke wonder and timelessness. Explore my creations on design.imagineittech.com, available as wall art, home decor, apparel and more.
This innovative project collection blends the art of photography with AI-driven creativity. Each piece tells a story, capturing the interplay of light, color and emotion while evoking a sense of wonder and timelessness. Every artwork is available at design.imagineItTech.com as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, home decor, apparel and more, ensuring there is something for every space and style, and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Solar observation data that I contribute to the AAVSO Solar Section, an international group of observers dedicated to observing our Sun, the closest variable star in the sky. The AAVSO Solar Section monitors and records sunspots from which the monthly American Relative Sunspot Numbers (RA) are computed and used by scientific and academic organizations.
The Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) is a NASA funded project supported by the Near Earth Object Observation Program (NEOO) under the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) that is dedicated to discovering and tracking near-Earth asteroids. Its Daily Minor Planet project harnesses the power of high-resolution astronomy, artificial intelligence and human observers to confirm that the objects are likely to be asteroids and to train the AI.
NASA Solar Jet Hunter (CitSci) 2024 completed
This NASA citizen science project aims to create a comprehensive database of solar jets, small yet significant ejections of solar material, by analyzing data from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory. Utilizing high-resolution images in extreme ultraviolet light, the initiative seeks to enhance our understanding of the Sun's behavior and its impact on space weather and deepens our knowledge of solar phenomena and their effects on our solar system.
Custom GPT models developed 2023 completed
"Cosmic Quest Adventure": An interactive research game
"Cosmic Weaver": An art assistant for visualizing a timeless, spatial universe
"Astro Light Explorer": An expert-level astronomy research assistant
Identify and classify Moon craters and contribute to the advancement of lunar science. Moon Mappers' objective is to provide a large, scientifically robust and geographically broad catalog of lunar craters and other features. Specifically, the identification, cataloging, classification, and analysis of small impact craters (10-1000 m in size), atypical impact formations (e.g., elliptical, exogenic dark-haloed, and concentric craters; bright rays; ejecta exclusion zones), volcanic structures (e.g., vents, endogenic dark-haloed craters, domes, rilles), and other unusual/interesting geologic features that can be used to help answer several fundamental questions in lunar science.
Help NASA scientists identify clouds types, cloud cover, and sky color.
The latest galaxy images come from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS). Because it uses a larger telescope, DECaLS is 10 times more sensitive to light than the survey that supplied images to the first iteration of Galaxy Zoo, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. That means that we can see more detail. In an effort to speed up classifications to cope with the large number of galaxies we expect to receive from new surveys, we've been working on ways to combine human classifications with those of machines, inspired by the idea that the combination of both automatic and human classification may be more powerful than either alone.
Gamma rays are the most energetic radiation in the universe and we study them to explore the most exotic and extreme processes and physical conditions. Objects that emit gamma rays include supernova remnants (the remains of stars that exploded at the end of their life), active galactic nuclei (supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are accreting matter to produce jets thousands of light years long) and potentially even dark matter (an unidentified type of matter comprising approximately 27% of the mass and energy in the observable universe). In fact, this emission offers the only direct probe of the extreme conditions in these exciting phenomena.
Gravitational lenses are useful for putting constraints on values of the Hubble constant, the dark energy equation of state, dark matter halo substructure, and for studying high-redshift galaxies at high spatial and flux magnification. Rare lens systems, for example the Jackpot lens, are particularly useful for dark energy and halo profiles. There is a need to find rare lens configurations to obtain statistics on lens and source parameters and to improve cosmological parameters. However rare lens systems can only be found with large lens samples, and large survey samples are also needed to remove small number statistics. The Euclid telescope performs an imaging and slitless spectroscopy survey over half the sky, to map baryon wiggles and weak lensing. During the survey Euclid is expected to resolve 100,000 strong gravitational lens systems. This is ideal to find rare lens configurations, provided they can be identified reliably and on a reasonable timescale.
The field of quantum cosmology attempts to blend the principles of quantum mechanics with those of general relativity. My interest in anomalous light phenomena and the fusion of concept art with Nature's light and energy anomalies explores profound cosmological ideas and fuels new inspirations for my AI-infused conceptual artwork, bridging the esoteric with the empirical. The blend of quantum cosmology, art and my experience in capturing Light and energy anomalies could lead to a fascinating exploration of the universe's mysteries, while potentially offering new visually compelling perspectives both in the scientific and artistic domains. Technology, like my iPhone camera, serves as a crucial mediator to bridge the gap between different levels of perception, capturing and translating my experiences into a form that others can understand and witness. This interplay of science, technology, and spirituality opens up new discussions about the nature of reality and the limitations of human perception.
My observations of galaxies, star clusters, globular clusters and nebulae in the Herschel 400, NGC, Messier, Abell, Barnard, Harvard, Perek-Kohoutek, Sharpless, Stephenson, Stock and several other celestial catalogues.
Observations of New England native plants, herbs, wildflowers, berries, ferns, evergreens, lichens, seaweed, algae and geology that I contribute to iNaturalist.org. Observations are reviewed and those that are categorized as Research grade are used by scientific and academic organizations
Custom GPT models I built for research scientists and artists
"Cosmic Quest Adventure": An interactive research game
"Cosmic Weaver": An art assistant for visualizing a timeless, spatial universe
"Astro Light Explorer": An expert-level astronomy research assistant