Travis Metcalfe

Travis Metcalfe

Senior Research Scientist

White Dwarf Research Corporation
9020 Brumm Trail, Golden CO 80403
travis@wdrc.org | 720-310-5180

Curriculum Vitae

Supported Research

NASA

Calibrating the activity-age relation

ADAP grant 80NSSC22K0475

NSF

Evolution of Magnetic Complexity in Old Stars

AAG grant AST-2205919

Chandra

The Deaths of Stellar Dynamos

Chandra program 21200121

PEPSI

Magnetic morphology shift in Sun-like stars

LBT polarimetry program

NOAO

Evolution of Sun-like Activity Cycles

LCO key project 2020B-010

TeraGrid

The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal

TeraGrid project TG-AST090107

Public Outreach

Science Magazine

Star's midlife crisis illuminates the future

Science, August 2022

Eos

Why Did Sunspots Disappear for 70 Years?

Eos, June 2022

Boulder Weekly

Newspaper column:
Lab Notes

Science news series (2015-2021)

NPR

Radio segment: The Magnetic Sun

NPR Marketplace Tech, July 2016

Ignite Boulder

Are we alone in the Universe?

Public talk, December 2015

WDRC

Nonprofit Adopt a Star

All proceeds support the search for Earth-like planets

Recent Presentations

IfA Colloquium

Magnetic Stellar Evolution and Planetary Habitability (video)

INI Workshop

Constraints on the Magnetic Morphology of Old Sun-like Stars (video)

Cool Stars 21

The Origin of Weakened Magnetic Braking (video)

TESS Conference

TESS asteroseismology and LBT spectropolarimetry of ρ CrB (video)

Cool Stars 20.5

A New Understanding of Magnetic Stellar Evolution (video)

Talks at Google

Crowdfunding Astronomy with Google Sky (video)

Scientific Publications

arXiv

Preprints

Open access through arXiv

ADS

Published papers

Refereed / First-author / Other

UT Austin

Ph.D. Thesis

Computational Asteroseismology