You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand this . . .

I am an experimental physicist.

• That means when I do research, I spend most of my time playing with things in the laboratory and trying to make experiments work.

• More specifically I have worked on developing mass spectrometers that have and will be used to learn more about the Earth's atmosphere and atmospheres around other objects in the solar system.

•  University of Minnesota:  A space shuttle project
•  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center:  planetary exploration missions
• Concordia College:  cosmic dust studies