Senior Director, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, California Academy of Sciences
Wyatt assumed his role as Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization director at the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) in April 2007. Before arriving in San Francisco, Wyatt worked for six years as Science Visualizer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; previously, he opened technologically advanced planetariums in Phoenix, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Wyatt’s professional interests include making research data sets accessible to the general public and developing standards and best practices in the full-dome video community. A paper co-written for Natural History magazine reflects on the role of modern planetariums in bringing cutting-edge science to various audiences, and his “Visualizing Science” blog provides an informal look at his ideas and opinions related to visual representations of science. Wyatt also has an avid enthusiasm for archeoastronomy, the history of science, and the intersections between art and science.