Duane Hamacher - PhD Candidate in Aboriginal Astronomy
Affiliation: Department of Indigenous Studies (Warawara) - Macquarie University
Education: BSc in Physics (Missouri), MSc in Astrophysics (New South Wales)
Website: www.academia.edu/DuaneHamacher
E-mail: duane.hamacher @ mq.edu.au
Papers: ADS Search
About Duane Hamacher
Duane is an astronomer working in the young field of Aboriginal Astronomy. Born and raised in the USA, he graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in physics before moving to Sydney to study observational astronomy at the University of New South Wales. After finishing a master's thesis on transiting exoplanets, he was awarded a Research Excellence Scholarship to study Aboriginal Astronomy at Macquarie University. His main thesis topics are Aboriginal views of meteoritic phenomena and the archaeoastronomy of rock art and stone arrangements in southeast Australia. He also works as an astronomy educator at Sydney Observatory and the Foundation for Astronomy at Macquarie University, and is the co-founder and president of the Macquarie Skeptics Society.
