12 Facts About Sallie Baliunas

Sallie Louise Baliunas was born on February 23,1953 and is a retired astrophysicist.

Sallie Baliunas attended public schools in the New York City area and high school in New Jersey.

Sallie Baliunas received a BS in astrophysics from Villanova University in 1974, and an AM and a PhD in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1975 and 1980.

Sallie Baliunas was a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, an adjunct professor at Tennessee State University, and was deputy director of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 to 2003.

Sallie Baliunas has been a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Physical Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, International Astronomical Union, and Sigma XI.

Sallie Baliunas served on both the scientific advisory board and the board of directors of the Marshall Institute, a now defunct conservative think tank.

Sallie Baliunas studied visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars; structure, variations, and activity in cool stars; evolution of stellar angular momentum; solar variability and global change; adaptive optics; exoplanets of Sun-like stars.

Sallie Baliunas has published little in recent years, with only two refereed astronomy papers since 2010.

In 1992, Sallie Baliunas was third author on a Nature paper that used observed variations in sun-like stars as an analogue of possible past variations in the Sun.

In later statements Sallie Baliunas acknowledged the measured warming in the satellite and balloon records, though she disputed that the observed warming reflected human influence.

Soon and Sallie Baliunas attribute the Medieval warm period to such an increase in solar output, and believe that decreases in solar output led to the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling from which the earth has been recovering since 1890.

In 1995, Sallie Baliunas testified before the United States House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment that CFCs were not responsible for ozone depletion.