Larry Krumenaker

Larry Krumenaker, by training a professional astronomer and planetarium educator, is a science, technology and online services journalist and science/astronomy teacher and popularizer in Atlanta, GA. His latest book is entitled The Characteristics and the Life Cycle of Stars, an anthology of current thought, by Rosen Publishing (2006, but out now). Krumenaker edited and published 13 editions of Net.Journal Directory, a semi-annual listing of full text journals archived on the Web. He also is a co-author of the book Internet at a Glance, 3rd Ed. (1996, Information Today, Inc).

 Krumenaker has also been the staff writer for Rutgers University's Wireless Information Network Laboratory's "Packets" newsletter.

Mr. Krumenaker earned astronomy degrees at Case Western Reserve University and a planetarium education degree from Michigan State University's Abrams Planetarium. He is currently 'on sabbatical' from writing, as a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, working on his dissertation on the existance of astronomy courses at the high school level.

Krumenaker has written for Germany's Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allegemeine Sonntagzeitung, and Moscow's science newspaper Poisk. He has in the past written for Sky and Telescope, Science, Discovery Channel Online and other science magazines as well as computer and library trade journals including Internet World, The Searcher and Online Access. Biographies of astronauts were contributed by him to Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia 1997 CDROM and animation scripts and captions for Byron Preiss Multimedia's Timetables of Technology CDROM (view avi's here!).

Larry Krumenaker is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and was cybrarian/sysop for NASW's online services on CompuServe and web site from 1994 to 1996. He is now the webmaster for the International Science Writers Association.