Channon Visscher

Description A paid research assistantship in the area of faith and science is available to Dordt College students during the 2018-2019 academic year. The research assistant will work under the direction of Dr. Channon Visscher (Chemistry & Planetary Sciences) as part of the SCIO/CCCU Bridging the Two Cultures II program... [Read More]

The draft of our Science for all Christians essay collection is ready just in time for class! This booklet will be used in CHEM/BIO 180 “First Term Seminar” for freshman science majors. [Read More]

A nice summary of our recent work on new substellar atmosphere and evolution models can be found here. This talk was presented by Mark Marley at the Cool Stars 20 conference.

A writeup of some our recent work on “ultrahot Jupiters” can be found in this NASA JPL press release These are extremely hot giant planets that orbit very close to their host stars, so that molecules break apart on their dayside but cool to form clouds on their nightside. This... [Read More]

Converting mathematical expressions between markdown, latex, and html is relatively straightforward using tools such as pandoc. This page has useful instructions for implementing mathjax within the jekyll template on github pages, allowing easy conversion from markdown to html. [Read More]