Travis Metcalfe

Travis Metcalfe

Senior Research Scientist

Center for Solar-Stellar Connections
9020 Brumm Trail, Golden CO 80403
travis@wdrc.org | 720-310-5180

Curriculum Vitae

Supported Research

NASA

Calibrating the stellar Rossby number

ADAP grant 80NSSC25K7563

NSF

Magnetic Complexity in Old Sun-like Stars

AAG grant AST-2205919

TESS

Asteroseismology of Bright Solar-type Stars

TESS GI grant 80NSSC25K7898

PEPSI

Magnetic morphology shift in Sun-like stars

LBT polarimetry program

NOAO

Evolution of Sun-like Activity Cycles

LCO key project 2020B-010

TeraGrid

Asteroseismic Modeling Portal

TeraGrid project TG-AST090107

Public Outreach

Eos

Stars don’t slow down with age like...

Scientific American, January 2024

Science Magazine

Star's midlife crisis illuminates the future

Science, August 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

Know Thy Star 2

Spectropolarimetry: a tool to characterize exoplanet host stars (video)

IAU Focus Meeting 8

Weakened Magnetic Braking: what it tells us about stellar dynamos (video)

TASC7 Workshop

Probing Magnetic Stellar Evolution with Asteroseismology (video)

INI Workshop

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

Cool Stars 21

The Origin of Weakened Magnetic Braking (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