Merriot, Ivy

n 1994, Ivy Merriot earned her Montana teaching certificate in Broadfield Science, grades 5-12. She taught physics and astronomy in public and private schools. For professional development, she worked with solar astronomers Dr. Piet Martens and Dr. Alexei Pevtsov, researching solar prominences at the National Solar Observatory at Sunspot, NM, later creating a web database, with the programming expertise of Dain P. White, to make images of H-alpha accessible to the global community. Ivy learned the operation of large telescopes with stellar and black hole astronomers at the Kitt Peak Observator...