Born: April 9, 1958, Oceanside, New York Office Phone: 515-294-9728 e-mail: sdk@iastate.edu
Ph.D., Astronomy: University of Texas at Austin, 1986 M.A., Astronomy: University of Texas at Austin, 1982 B.A., Physics: Cornell University, 1980
2019- Distinguished Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University1997-2019 Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University1993-1997 Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University1989-1993 Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University1986-1989 Associate Research Scientist
Center for Solar and Space Research, Yale University1980-1985 Doctoral Candidate
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin
2020 Fellow: American Astronomical Society 2019 Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Iowa State University2005 Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2002 Award for Excellence in Research/Artistic Creativity
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Iowa State University1999 Master Teacher:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University1999 J.H. Ellis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Introductory Teaching:
Iowa State University1995 By-Fellowship: Churchill College, Cambridge University 1993- Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer: American Astronomical Society 1992 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award 1985 University Fellowship: College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Editorial Scientific Editor, The Astrophysical Journal (2006- )
Lead Editor, AAS Journals (2016- )
Editorial Board, AAS/Institute of Physics eBook Program (2015- ), Chair (2019 - )President I.A.U. Division V: Variable Stars (2009-2012)
I.A.U. Commission 27: Variable Stars (2006-2009, V.P. 2003-2006)
Sigma Xi, ISU Chapter (2009-2010)Director Whole Earth Telescope (1997-2006) Professional
ServiceAAAS Astronomy Steering Committee Member-at-Large (2016-2020)
TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium Steering Committee (2015- )
American Astronomical Society, Councilor (2012-2015)
Kepler Users Panel (KUP) (2012-2014)
Kepler Asteroseismic Invesitigation (KAI) Steering Committee (2010-)
Kepler Asteroseismology Science Consortium (KASC) Steering Committee (2008-)
KASC Working Group on Compact Pulsating Stars (Chair) (2008-2016)
AURA Representative for Iowa State University (2002-2016)
NOAO - ReSTAR Committee (2007)
AURA Managment Council: National Solar Observatory (2004-2007)
Science Advisory Board, Science Center of IowaProfessional Memberships American Astronomical Society
International Astronomical Union
AAAS (Fellow)
Sigma Xi
Referee Astrophysical Journal, Ap.J. (Letters), Astronomical Journal, MNRAS, Nature, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harper-Collins, Wm.C. Brown, Prentice-Hall, ... Review Panels NSF Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics program, NASA ADP Program, NASA LTSA Program, Hubble Space Telescope GO Program, CTIO, Spanish Interministrial Commission on Science and Technology, NSF Young Investigator Program, NASA ATP Program, EUVE TAC panel, Hubble Space Telescope TAC member (Cycle 11), NOAO TAC (2007-2009), NASA-Keck TAC (2018-2020) SOC Membership 2nd Kepler Science Conference (co-chair) (Mountain View, CA - Nov. 2013)
I.A.U. Colloq. #47: Inside the Stars (Vienna, 1992), Joint Discussion on Asteroseismology, I.A.U. General Assembly (The Hague, 1994), 4th Whole Earth Telescope Workshop (Krakow, July 1997), AAAS Symposium Session: A Telescope the Size of the Earth: Global Astronomy Networks (San Francisco, February 2001), Astrophysical Ages and Timescales (Hilo, February 2001), Radial and Nonradial Oscillations as Stellar Probes (Belgium, July 2001). Porto Asteroseismology Meeting (Porto, July 2002), ...OC Chair 3rd Whole Earth Telescope Workshop (Ames, July 1995)
Principal Investigator: NASA K2 GO Program, Cycle 2 (2015): $12,000 for 1 year, entitled "Search for rotational modulation in precise photometry of white dwarf stars"Principal Investigator: NASA K2 GO Program, Cycle 1 (2015): $18,000 for 1 year, entitled "Search for sub-kilogauss magnetic fields in white dwarfs with K2 photometry"
Principal Investigator: NASA Kepler GO Program, Cycle 3 (2011-2013): $37,379 for 1 year, entitled "Continued Photometry of a variable hot subdwarf star in NGC 6791."Co-PI: National Science Foundation (AST) (2010-2013): $77,953 (ISU portion) for 3 years, entitled "Asteroseismology of pulsating Subdwarf B stars via observational mode identification and modeling" (Mike Reed, Missouri State University, PI)
Principal Investigator: NASA Kepler GO Program, Cycle 2 (2010-2011): $40,977 for 1 year, entitled "Photometry of a variable hot subdwarf star in NGC 6791."
Co-Investigator: NASA Kepler GO Program, Cycle 2 (2010-2011): "A search for Asteroids Orbiting White Dwarfs" (Rosanne De Stefano, SAO, PI)
Co-Investigator: NASA Astrophysics Theory Program (2005-2008): $467,620 for 3 years, ISU component $109,959, entitled "Hot Horizontal-branch Stars as Fundamental Tests of Stellar Structure and Evolution" (Marc Pinsonneaut, Ohio State University, PI)
Principal Investigator: NSF Grant AST-0205983 (2002-2006): $313,329 for 3 years, entitled "Coordinated global time-series photometry of variable stars: the Whole Earth Telescope."
Principal Investigator: NSF Grant AST-9876655 (1999-2002): $216,464 for 3 years, entitled "Coordinated global time-series photometry of variable stars: the Whole Earth Telescope."
Principal Investigator: NASA Astrophysics Theory Program NRA-98-03-ATP-078 (1999-2002): $197,883: ``Theoretical Models for Seismological Studies of Hot Compact Stars''
Principal Investigator: NASA Astrophysics Theory Program NRA-96-04-GSFC-052 (1996-1999): $136,200: ``Theoretical Models of Hot Pre-White Dwarfs for Seismological Studies''
NSF Young Investigator Award AST-9257049 (1992-1997): $25,000/yr for 5 years, plus matching funds up to $37.5K/yr. Supports research in stellar seismology.
IITAP/UNESCO (1994-97): $37.5K/yr plus $37.5K/yr NSF NYI match. Stellar seismology with the Whole Earth Telescope.
Hubble Space Telescope Fellowship Program Award HF-1041.01-93A (1993-1996): $160,200 to support postdoctoral research by Dr. J. Christopher Clemens at ISU under my supervision. Though I acted as titular P.I., the award was given to Dr. Clemens in recognition of his research achievements; he chose to use this award to come to ISU.
Principal Investigator, Hubble Space Telescope GO Program 4307 (Cycle 3, 1993-94): $58,000: "Radial and Nonradial Pulsations in Hot White Dwarfs".
Principal Investigator, Hubble Space Telescope GO Program 3798 (Cycle 2, 1992-93): $88,685: "A Search for Radial Pulsations in White Dwarfs".
Principal Investigator, NSF Grant AST-9115213 (1991-93): $94,600 for 2 years, entitled "Theoretical Evolutionary and Seismological Studies of Hot Highly Evolved Stars".
Carl J. Hansen & Steven D. Kawaler, Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution, (New York, Springer-Verlag) (1994).
White Dwarf Stars, Chapter 1 of 3, in Stellar Remnants: Saas Fee Advanced Course 25, Lecture Notes 1995, ed. G. Meynet & D. Schaerer (Berlin, Springer) (1996).
Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler, and Virginia Trimble, Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution: Second Edition, (New York, Springer) (2004).
Steven D. Kawaler, Learning Physics from the Stars: Its All in the Coefficients Chapter in Asteroseismology: The Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Volume XXII, ed. Pere Palle (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) (2011).
Steven D. Kawaler, "Asteroseismology: from the telescope to the modeler's desk"
Chapter 4, in Extraterrestrial Seismology, ed. Rafael Garca and Vincent Tong (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) (2014).