Professor Jim Beatty leads a group of postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students working on four experiments: AMBER, ANITA, Auger, and CREAM.
Pictured above is the Beatty group in the summer of 2008.
Top row l-r: Nathan Griffiths, Kevin Knobbe, Jim Davis, Terri Brandt, Brian Baughman, Chris Williams, and Chad Morris.
Bottom row l-r: Jake Mayer, Neesha Anderson, Mike Sutherland, Jim Beatty, Kimberly Palladino, and Brian Mercurio.
Professor Jim Beatty heads the ANITA group at OSU. He is pictured here, in the bright shirt, with Hawaii engineer Marc Rosen and the two antennas of ANITA-Lite at the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, TX in August 2003.
Postdoc Brian Baughman splits his time between ANITA, Auger, and GLAST. He joined ANITA in the spring of 2008.
Graduate Student Brian Mercurio focuses on Monte Carlo simulations of the ANITA experiment. Here he is pictured in the white hat in Ft. Sumner working with our UCLA collaborators to to direct calibration pulses at the ANITA balloon payload.
Photo courtesy of Stephen Hoover
Graduate Student Kimberly Palladino works with hardware and software. She is pictured asleep during the long overnight wait for news that ANITA engineering flight could take place.
Photo courtesy of Stephen Hoover
Current University College Lecturer
Ryan Nichol is the collaboration's flight software author. Here he is pictured hard at work during the ANITA engineering flight in Ft. Sumner, NM in August 2005.
Photo courtesy of Stephen Hoover
and former undergraduates Megan Comins, Jennifer Taggart,Ben Trube and Chris Williams.
Graduate and undergraduate students interested in ANITA should contact Prof. Beatty.