Jennifer Lynn Bartlett is an American astronomer, the Kinnear Chair of Physics at theUnited States Naval Academy,[1] and former Chief of the Software Products Division in the Astronomical Applications Department of theUnited States Naval Observatory.[2] Her interests include the development of software forastrometry, the accurate measurements of distances to nearby stars,celestial navigation, the effects of the atmosphere on the brightness of the sky and celestial objects, thehistory of astronomy, and the preservation of historical astronomical data.[2][3][4]
Bartlett has held a lifelong interest in astronomy and was given her first telescope as a teenager. After beginning her undergraduate education at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, she transferred to theRensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and earned a bachelor's degree in physics there, in 1990.[5][6] After working in the computer and aerospace industries,[5] she returned to graduate study at theUniversity of Virginia in 1997, and earned a Ph.D. there in 2007.[5][6] Her dissertation,Knowing Our Neighbors: Fundamental Properties of Nearby Stars, was directed by Philip A. Ianna.[7]
While completing her doctorate, Bartlett was a visiting assistant professor atHampden–Sydney College in Virginia. She began working for theUnited States Naval Observatory in 2007, and in 2010 became Chief of the Software Products Division in the Astronomical Applications Department.[6] She moved to theUnited States Naval Academy as Kinnear Chair of Physics in 2021.[3][6]
Bartlett is a coauthor of the bookSolar System: Between Fire and Ice (with Thomas Hockey and Daniel C. Boice, CRC Press, 2021).
She became co-editor-in-chief of theBiographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers in 2020.[6]
Bartlett was named a Legacy Fellow of theAmerican Astronomical Society in 2020.[2]
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