Russ Durkee
What I do, where I work
I am an exhibit prototyper at the Science Museum of Minnesota where I create interactive exhibits that I like to view as “teaching machines”. I have had the good fortune of working at SMM for over 10 years on exibits for our museum and our traveling exhibitions on subjects ranging from calculus to combustion. Lately I have been working on projects relating to real-time signal aquisition and processing, robotics, linux systems, and wrangling our Science On a Sphere.
Current position
Exhibit Prototyper at Science Museum of Minnesota
Director at Shed of Science Observatory
Earlier positions
Meteorologist at Raytheon Polar Services Company
Website(s)
More about me
In my spare time I enjoy teaching, traveling, and doing science. I operate a privately funded observatory I call the Shed of Science where I search for binary near Earth asteroids along with a world-wide network of professional and amateur astronomers. I also assist organizations and individuals to create state of the art robotic video telescope systems for education outreach. I am a life long student and have earned degrees in Physics, Astrophysics, and a masters degree in Meteorology. Currently I am working on a masters in teaching.