A. William Neely
EDUCATION
Undergraduate
Dartmouth College A.B. in Physics with honors 1972Graduate
University of New Mexico, M.D. 1977Post Doc
Residency in Internal Medicine UCLA 1977 - 1978Certification
Board Certified in Emergency Medicine 1985 - current
WORK EXPERIENCE
Director of 'Network for Astronomy in Education' 1995 - current
President NF/ Observatory Ltd 1990 - current
Adjunct Professor Western New Mexico University 1993 - 1996
ER Physician Los Angeles, California 1978 - 1980
ER Physician Hillcrest Hospital, Silver City NM 1980 - 1984
ER Physician Gila Region MC, Silver City NM 1984 - current
Gila Regional Medical Center, Chief of Staff 1993
Director of Emergency Services GRMC 1984 - 2007
Directory of Pre-hospital Emergency Services
Hidalgo County 1985 - 1998
Grant, Catron Counties 1985 - current
GRANTS
Support from the Aksansas Space Grant Consortium 2002-present
IDEAS Grant 1998, "Network for Astronomy in Education"
Slifer Fund from the Americal Academy of Science 1997
AAS Small Grant Program 1996
Local Grants from Phelps Dodge Corporation 1998-2003
IDEAS Grant 2006-2009, "NFO Webscope for grades 8-12"
Local Grants from Phelps Dodge Corporation 2006
AWARDS
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society 1976
Mosbey Medical Student Book Award 1977
Fellow in the American Academy of Emerg. Med 1985
NM State Medical Director of the Year 1990 and 2002
COUNTY COMMITTEES
Grant County Emergency liaison Committee for
Emergency Medicine - President Since 1982
Grant County Emergency Preparedness 1990
Grant County Enhanced 911 1991
STATE COMMITTEES
Region II EMS Board of Directors for New Mexico Since 1981
PUBLICATIONS
1. B. Neely and F. Treasure, "The Automatic Radio-Linked Telescope
(ARLT) at the NF/ Observatory", Remote Access Automatic Telescopes,
D. Hayes and R. Genet ed., Fairborn Press 1989.2. B. Neely and F. Treasure, "Progress on the Automatic
Radio-Linked Telescope (ARLT) at the NF/ Observatory - A CCD
Primer", Advances on Robotic Telescopes, M. A. Seeds and John L.
Richards ed., Fairborn Press 1991.3. B. Neely and D. Epand, "A Proposal for an ATIS Command Set
Extension for CCD Cameras", IAPPP Communications No. 45 p92-103
Sep.- Nov. 1991.4. B. Neely, "CCD Photometry of Asteroid 16 Psyche", The Minor
Planet Bulletin, Vol. 19, Number 4 p28 Oct.- Nov. 1992.5. B. Neely, "CCD Photometry of Asteroid 487 Venetia", The Minor
Planet Bulletin, Vol. 19 Number 4 p 31-32 Oct.- Nov. 1992.6. A. W. Neely, "CCD Photometry of Asteroid 441 Bathilde", The
Minor Planet Bulletin, Vol. 20, Number 3 p 21-22 July - Sept. 1993.7. A. W. Neely, "Pre-discovery photometry of 1993j", IAU circ.
5740, April 1, 1993.8. A. Porter, A. W. Neely,"Reddening of 1993j", IAU circ. 5742,
April 2, 1993.9. A. W. Neely, "Continued photometry on 1993j", IAU circ. 5847,
August 18, 1993.10. A. W. Neely, Jim Janesick, " A CCD Anti-Blooming technique for
Use in Photometry" PASP 105: 1330-1333, 1993 Nov.11. L.J. Boyd, A. W. Neely, et al "Automatic Telescope Instruction
Set 1993", IAPPP No 52, pp 23-81, Summer 1993.12. A. W. Neely, "Flare of 3C279", IAU circ. 5911, December 20,
1993.13. A. W. Neely, M. Harvanek, J. Stocke, Brightening of 3C279, IAU
circ. 5978, April 23, 1994.14. E. Richmond, A. W. Neely, "CCD Photometry of 9 Metis", The
Minor Planet Bulletin, Vol. 21, Number 3 p 23-24 July - Sept. 1993.
15. E. Richmond, A. W. Neely, "CCD Photometry of 480 Hansa", The
Minor Planet Bulletin, Vol. 21, Number 4 p 37-38 Oct.- Dec. 1994.16. A. W. Neely, "VRI Photometry of Supernova 1993j", IAPPP No. 56,
p448-55, Summer 1994.17. A. W. Neely, "The ARLT (Automatic Radio-Linked Telescope); An Imaging Observatory, IAPPP No. 58,
p 51-59, Winter, 1995.18 . Robert Brown, A. W. Neely, "CCD Photometry of 16 Psyche" Minor Planet Bulletin, Vol. 22, Number 4 p 40-41 Oct. - Dec. 1995.
19. S. J. Bus, S. Xu, R. P. Binzel, A. William Neely, Robert W.
Brown, "Rotationally Resolved Spectra of Asteroid 16 Psyche",
Icarus 1996.20. J. T. Stocke, Steve Penton, Michael Harvanek, A. W. Neely, and J. Chris Blades,"Hubble Space Telescope Spectra of 3C 279: A Lyman Limit System at Low Redshift", AJ, 115, p 451- 459, Feb., 1998.
21. A. W. Neely,"IDEA, The Network for Astronomy in Education in Southwest NM", Oral Presentation, AAS Meeting #193 Austin, TX, January 1999 [114.04]
22. Albert D. Grauer, A. W. Neely, Claud Lacy, " Building an Automated Telescope with High Photometric Accuracy" PASP 120: 992-1000, 2008 Sep.