J.F. Helmboldt


It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

- Bill Hicks





My name is Joe Helmboldt , and this is my home page. I graduated with my Ph.D. in Astronomy from New Mexico State University in December, 2005. I recently completed a postdoc with Greg Taylor in the physics and astronomy department of the University of New Mexico. I am currently a National Research Council fellow in the Remote Sensing division of the Naval Research Laboratory. For a look at my past and current research on galaxy evolution, star formation, and the interstellar medium, see my RESEARCH page. For more information about my career, see my CV (as a PDF).




Astronomy related links:
 Software:
Alphabetical list of IDL routines
The IDL astronomer's library
ATV for IDL
Super Mongo
Numerical Recipes
GIM2D
LaTeX Help
AASTeX

Databases:
NASA Astrophysics Data System
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
Lyon Extragalactic Database
Astronomer's Bazaar
International Astronomy Meetings
The Astronomical Almanac

Publications:
The Astrophysical Journal
The Astronomical Journal
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pasific
astro-ph

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (some pages password protected):
C4 cluster catalog
Princeton/MIT spectroscopic data
MPA Garching derived galaxy properties
Matches to HST observations
Pitt/CMU value-added catalog
NYU value-added catalog
u-band galaxy survey
SDSS photometric equations
M. Blanton K-correction software
The supplemental data release


Some pages regarding independent thinking:
 The MOND Pages
The Skeptic's Dictionary
Bill Hicks
Sacred Cow Productions
GNN
Axis of Justice

Some superfluous band links:
 Sutures
The Tool Pæge
Toolshed
A Perfect Circle
The Primus Homepage
Charles Mingus
U2
Audioslave
The Rockit King
The Last Vegas