Professor
- Office: Weyandt 136
- Email: kcoles@iup.edu
- Office Phone: 724-357-5626
IUP Planetarium Director
Education:
- BS, California Institute of Technology - Geology
- MS, California Institute of Technology - Geology
- MPhil, Columbia University
- PhD, Columbia University - Geology
- Indiana Teaching Certificate (General/Elementary 1-8, Science 1-8)
- Massachusetts First Year Teaching License (Earth Science 8-12)
Courses Taught:
GEOS 105 Exploring the Universe
GEOS 106 Exploring the Universe Lab
GEOS 154 Exploration of Space
GEOS 403/404 Newfoundland Seminar and Field Workshop
GEOS 323 Geophysics
GEOS 341 Planetary Geology
GEOS 342 Stellar Astronomy
Professional Interests:
- Geology of solar system bodies
- Astrometry of asteroids and Moon by occultation of stars
- Eclipses and transits of solar system bodies
- Planetarium education
Recent Publications:
- Coles, K. S., Tanaka, K. L., and Christensen, P. R., 2019, Atlas of Mars: Mapping Its Geography and Geology: Cambridge, England, Cambridge Univ. Press, 289 + x pp., ISBN 8971107036291. Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award of the Association of American Publishers in the category Cosmology and Astronomy.
- Mouginis-Mark, P.J., Burr, D., Byrne P., Coles, K., Crown, D. A., Phillips, M. S., Skinner, J. A., Jr., Williams, D. A., and Zimbelman, J. R., 2021, Planetary Geologic Mapping: White Paper #408 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 of the National Research Council, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, v. 53, no. 4, https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.85a374e2, 7 p.
- Coles, K. S., 2022, Lessons Learned from Outreach for an Annular Solar Eclipse: in Schultz, G., Jensen, J., and Shore, L., eds., Sharing Best Practices: Astronomy Teaching and Public Engagement; ASP Conference Series Vol. 533, p. 126-131.
- Lauretta, D., May, B., Bennett, C., Coles, K. S., Manzoni, C., and Wolner, C. W. V., in press 2023, Anatomy of an Asteroid: Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission: London, England and Tucson, AZ, London Stereoscopic Company/Univ. of Arizona Press, 240 p.