{"id":14,"date":"2017-05-17T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/pages\/template-divisions-departments\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:07:16","slug":"meet-our-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/meet-our-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2020\/01\/Mark-e1579907614381.jpg\" alt=\"Mark R. Lane\" class=\"wp-image-106\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mark R. Lane<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor of Astronomy &amp; Planetarium Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mlane\/\">Course Site <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/239\/2020\/01\/IMG_1643-scaled-1-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Kardel\" class=\"wp-image-121\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7509983412176691;width:149px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scott Kardel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associate Professor of Astronomy &amp; Assistant Planetarium Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/skardel\/\">Course Site <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Emeritus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Pesavento<br>Professor of Astronomy &amp; Planetarium Director<br><a href=\"mailto:jpesavento@palomar.edu\">jpesavento@palomar.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark R. Lane Professor of Astronomy &amp; Planetarium Director Course Site Scott Kardel Associate Professor of Astronomy &amp; Assistant Planetarium Director Course Site Emeritus James PesaventoProfessor of Astronomy &amp; Planetarium Directorjpesavento@palomar.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}