Kurtz Miller, Ph.D., is an energetic career science educator who loves astronomy and space science. He has bachelor and master's degrees in geology. As a child, he saw Halley's Comet in 1986. This inspired him to first pursue amateur astronomy as a high school student and later became a high school science teacher. He had the opportunity to view the 2017 eclipse. He loves to share his passions for astronomy, space science, and the geosciences with his students as well as the general public.