Stacy Lyall Mader is an Australian astronomer. He is a Senior Experimental Scientist at

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications. CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...

Astronomy and Space Science, and was the first

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to obtain a

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in astronomy.

Early life, education and research

Mader is a Gidja man from

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, in the Kimberly region of

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. He received a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from the

University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, Western Australia, Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UW ...

in 1993, and then Masters (1995) and PhD (2000) degrees from the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

. His PhD thesis, entitled "Giant Herbig-Haro Flows: Identification And Consequences", studied outflows in star-forming regions. His subsequent research has covered neutral and ionized gas in galaxies,

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s, and the

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. Mader was also part of the Voyager II and Mars missions in 2003/2004 respectively.

Career

Mader joined CSIRO's

Parkes Observatory Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It hosts Murriyang, the 64 m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope also known as "The Dish", along with two smaller radio telescopes. T ...

in 1999. He supports astronomical observations and spacecraft tracking with Parkes, and observations with the

Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder The ASKAP radio telescope is a radio telescope array located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The facility began as a technology demonstrator for the ...

. Mader has programmed several astrophysics related tools, an example being a program to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and other planets and any given time.

Honors and awards

* NASA Group Achievement Award (2003) * NASA Group Achievement Award (2013) * CSIRO Chairman’s Medal (2015) *NASA Group Achievement Award (2019)

References

External links

Stacy Mader's personal home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Macy, Stacy Living people 21st-century Australian astronomers Indigenous Australians from Western Australia Year of birth missing (living people) University of Western Australia alumni University of Wollongong alumni