Preview: Mars rover ‘Perseverance’ lands (2021 Feb 18), KTLA5 Morning News [link]
8th Anniversary of the Arrival of Space Shuttle Endeavour (2020 Oct 29), KTLA5 Morning News [link]
Episode 6 – Perry Roth-Johnson (2020 Oct 16), Tidbits of Research podcast [link]
Space shuttle rocket boosters roll into California for Endeavour orbiter exhibit (2020 Sep 11), SPACE.com [link]
Shuttle-used rockets roll into California to stand up Endeavour exhibit (2020 Sep 11), collectSPACE.com [link]
Take a Free, From-Home Tour of Endeavour (2020 Jun 8), NBC Los Angeles [link]
Chatting with Dr. Perry (2020 Jun 1), Stuck at Home Science | California Science Center [link]
Interview for ‘Inside Endeavour’ Tour (2020 May 15) KPCC 89.3 FM/NPR Morning Edition [clip]
Stay At Home and Explore Space Shuttle Endeavour (2020 May 11), NBC Los Angeles [link]
Painting ET-94 with Dr. Perry (2020 May 5), Stuck at Home Science | California Science Center [link]
Innovative ‘Biplane’ Design Could Lead To Next Generation Of Wind Turbines (2019 Dec 16), UCLA Samueli School of Engineering [link]
California Science Center Celebrates Apollo 11 Moon Landing 50th Anniversary (2019 Jul 20), KTLA 5 Weekend Morning News [link]
Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Celebration (2019 Jul 20), KFI AM 640 “The Fork Report with Neil Saavedra,” [clip] [full episode]
AkzoNobel and United Airlines help inspire US students (2019 Feb 20), AkzoNobel [link]
Bob Conover talks about building Ranger, a JPL spacecraft that went to the Moon in the 1960s, then restoring it again 50 years later (2018 Sep 18), StoryCorps Archive [link]
Historic Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft gets new display at CA Science Center (2018 Feb 23), Space.com [link]
Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft gets new display at CA Science Center (2018 Feb 22), collectSPACE [link]
How museum work can combine research and public engagement (2017 Dec 12), Nature [link] [pdf]
Will STEM education be the child left behind? (2015 Oct 28), NPR Morning Edition [link]
GSR Episode 13 (2014 Dec 08), GradSquare Radio podcast [link]
UCLA Students Promote STEM Education in Local Schools (2014 Oct 15), UCLA IS Associates [link]
Campus mobilizes to prepare graduate students, postdocs for careers (2014 May 20), UCLA Newsroom [link]
UCLA BEAM engineers hands-on mentorship for young students (2012 May 30), Daily Bruin [link]
writing
Volunteers restore Smithsonian’s Ranger spacecraft in Los Angeles (2015 Dec 13), Smithsonian Affiliate Newsletter [link]
Hiring success story: Aero engineer hired as Exhibit Researcher in a space museum (2014 Sep 06), VersatilePhD.com [link (paywall)]
invited talks
Talking about drones: how to start a productive conversation with guests in science centers (2017 Oct 23), ASTC 2017 Conference [link] [pptx]
Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center (2017 Jul 19), Del Amo Flyers
Volunteers restore 50-year-old Ranger spacecraft (2015 Nov 01), SpaceFest [pptx]
UCLA SciComm Career Panel (2015 Jul 07), UCLA [pptx]
Careers in Informal Science Education (2015 Apr 24), DaVinci Science High School
published research
P. Chiu, P. Roth-Johnson, R. Wirz (2020), “Optimal structural design of biplane wind turbine blades,” Renewable Energy, 147: 2440-2452, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.143 [link]
P. Roth-Johnson, R. Wirz (2017), “Wind turbine blade with biplane section,” U.S. Patent 9739259B2 [link] [pdf]
P. Roth-Johnson (2014), “Aero-structural design investigations for biplane wind turbine blades,” UCLA, Ph.D. dissertation [link] [pdf]
P. Roth-Johnson, R. Wirz, E. Lin (2014), “Structural design of spars for 100-meter biplane wind turbine blades,” Renewable Energy, 71: 133-135, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.05.030 [link] [pdf]
P. Roth-Johnson, R. Wirz (2014), “Aero-structural investigation of biplane wind turbine blades,” Wind Energy, 17: 397-411, doi: 10.1002/we.1583 [link] [pdf]
R. Wirz, P. Johnson, (2011), “Aero-structural performance of multiplane wind turbine blades,” 29th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA 2011-3025, Honolulu, HI, June 27, 2011, doi: 10.2514/6.2011-3025 [link] [pdf]
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