BA in Physics, Math/Computer Science, Augustana College, May 1984.
MS equivalent in Physics, University of New Mexico, August 1987.
MS in Astronomy, University of Arizona, December 1999.

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp., Kamuela (Waimea), HI. Observing Assistant, Scientific Staff, 1999-present. Duties: operate telescope, queue observer, researcher, writing manuals.
University Of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Teaching and Research Assistant, 1994-1998. Duties: instruction of astronomy labs, completing research projects in progress, see publications below.
Kitt Peak National Observatory/Central Computing Services, Tucson Arizona. Data Reduction Specialist, Observer Support Staff, 1992-1994. Duties: instruction in the use of IRAF, Finder/Astro, Grant Machine, GASP, and UNIX, writing of IRAF reduction manuals for specific tasks, and management of the KPNO tape archive.
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena, Chile. Data Reduction Specialist, Observer Support Staff, 1987-1992. Duties: instruction in the use of IRAF, GASP, and other UNIX commands, and the writing of IRAF reduction manuals for specific instruments used at CTIO.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. GRA, summers of 1985 and 1986. Duties: running hydrodynamical simulations in different morphological regimes to produce simulated radio maps to compare with observed radio jets.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graduate assistant in physics and astronomy, 1984-1987. Duties: instruction of astronomy labs, running the weekly campus observatory open house during the approach of Halley's comet, and instruction in the use of AIPS for data reduction.
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Laboratory assistant in physics, 1983-1984. Duties: set up and instruction of physics labs, grading.

DAR Award for Excellence in History, 1976; 1st Prize in the Modern Woodmen of America Speech Contest, 1976; Induction in the National Honorary Society, 1980; Varsity Letter, 1980; Induction in two Honorary Fraternities, Alpha Psi Omega (National Honorary Dramatics Fraternity), 1983 and Pi Kappa Delta (National Honorary Forensics Fraternity), 1984. Graduate Student Association Travel Grant (University of New Mexico) to attend the AAS Meeting #168 in Ames, Iowa. AAS Small Travel Grant to attend the IAU Colloquium #145 in Xian, China, 1993. NSF International Travel Grant and Women In Science and Engineering Grant to attend the NATO ASI on Thermonuclear Supernovae in Aigua Blava, Spain, 1995. Theoretical Astrophysics Program Award for travel to attend the ESO/CTIO/LCO Workshop on SN 1987A in La Serena, Chile, 1997.

Research projects currently underway are: The extensive photometric coverage of SN 1993J from the KPNO 0.9 meter telescope must be calculated and added to the light curves published by Balonek et al., 1993, to fill in gaps in the Schmidt coverage of the light evolution (Wells, et al.). Good IR coverage in JHK was obtained by visiting observers at KPNO for inclusion in a paper presenting the IR light curves for SN 1993J (Wells, et al.). Calculating the distance to SN1991al using EPM (Wells, Hamuy).

I am currently working as an Observing Assistant at CFHT in Hawaii. My duties include running the telescope during nighttime operations, service observing, writing manuals, website development, and instruction in the use of IRAF to reduce data taken with CFHT instruments. I worked at CTIO for 5 years and at KPNO for 2 years as a Data Reduction Specialist. My duties included helping visiting astronomers, using NOAO telescopes, reduce their data with IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility), writing reduction manuals for IRAF, managing the tape archive, and updating and writing software for general use. I helped with the reduction of data from the CTIO 4-meter echelle instrument for the determination of grating efficiencies. At KPNO, I worked with data from the solar magnetograph at NSO, and helped visitors use the new automated spectral reduction tasks for reducing Hydra and Coude Feed data. I wrote many manuals for general use of IRAF such as registering images, removal of cosmic rays, a quick guide to photometry packages available, and use of the mountain computers.

I have service observed at the CFHT using the 12K Imager. I have used the blue spectrograph on the MMT. I have also observed at the CTIO 4-meter, 1.5-meter, 1-meter, 36-inch, and Curtis Schmidt telescopes using the echelle spectrograph, Argus fiber feed spectrograph, CS/CCD, IR Imager, 2dFrutti, CF/CCD, and photographic plates; and the KPNO 4.0-meter, 2.1-meter, Coude Feed, 0.9-meter, and Burrell Schmidt telescopes using the IR Imager, CF/CCD, Coude spectrograph, and photographic plates. The resulting research projects involved searching thin prism plates taken in void regions for emission line galaxies, finding supernovae (SNe) in the rebirth of the CTIO/Cerro Calan SN Search, obtaining images and photoelectric photometry to produce light curves for SNe, obtaining good spectral coverage of the evolution of SNe, determining the radial velocities of a large sample of bulge stars, comparing JHK galaxy intensity profiles (using GASP) with published BV data, and searching for SN events in starburst nucleii using I band imaging, (see work in progress and publications below).

While in New Mexico, I worked as a GRA at Los Alamos National Laboratory with Michael L. Norman. This work entailed calculating hydrodynamical flows using the Cray/CTSS system, to produce brightness distributions of radio jets. We then used the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS) on a VAX/VMS system to make observationally comparable images.

My computer experience includes work on the Sun, Cray, VAX, Zenith, Apple, and PDP 11/70 computers. I am familiar with UNIX, CTSS, VMS, MS-Dos, and RSTS operating systems, and I have extensive programming skills in BASIC, and FORTRAN programming languages with some experience in C. Besides extensive knowledge of IRAF, I have also worked with AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System), and the GASP package (GAlaxy Surface Photometry). I have also acquired skills in JAVA, HTML, and web site management.

I have been a member of the AAS since 1986, and am fluent in French and Spanish.

The Bolometric Light of SN 1993J in M81, L. A. Wells. Given at the ESO/CTIO/LCO Workshop on "SN 1987A: Tens Years After" in La Serena, Chile, February 1997.
SN 1993J in M81: The UBVRI Light Curves During the First 450 Days, N. M. Silvestri, T. J. Balonek, L. A. Wells, R. Tweedy, E. G. Hintz, M. D. Joner, J. W. Moody, J. L. Koch, T. A. Boroson, and A. C. Porter. Given at the 185th AAS Meeting, Tucson, AZ., January 1995.
Reddening Correction and the Bolometric Light Curve of SN 1989B, by L. A. Wells, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, and Mark M. Phillips. IAU Colloquium #145: Supernovae and Supernova Remnants, Xian, China, May 1993, in Proceedings, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
The Early Light of SN 1993J, by L. A. Wells, et al. IAU Colloquium #145: Supernovae and Supernova Remnants, Xian, China, May 1993, in Proceedings, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Photometry and Spectroscopy of SN1989B, by L. A. Wells, and Mark M. Phillips. Given at the 176th AAS Meeting, Albuquerque, N.M., June 1990.
CTIO Observations of SN 1987A in the LMC, by J. E. Elias, B. Gregory, M. Hamuy, S. R. Heathcote, S. Kirhakos, M. Navarette, M. M. Phillips, N. B. Suntzeff, and L. A. Wells. Given at the CTIO 25th Anniversary Celebration Symposium, La Serena, Chile, January 1988, in Proceedings, BYU Press, 1988.
Hydrodynamical Models of Radio Galaxies: Simulated Radio Brightness Maps, by L. A. Wells, Michael L. Norman, and Jack O. Burns. Given at the 168th AAS Meeting, Ames, Iowa, June 1986.

The Statistical Identification of Extragalactic Gamma Ray Sources, L. A. Wells & C. Impey, Submitted to AJ, March 2001.
The Type Ic SN 1990B in NGC 4568, A. Clocchiatti, et al., Submitted to ApJ, June 2000.
Optical Light Curves of the Type Ia Supernovae SN 1990N and SN 1991T, P. Lira, et al., 1998, AJ, 115, 234.
BVRI Light Curves for 29 Type Ia Supernovae, M. Hamuy, et al., 1996, AJ, 112, 2408.
Photometry and Spectroscopy of Supernova 1989B, by L. A. Wells, et al., 1994, AJ, 108, 2233.
SN 1992K: A Twin to the Subluminous Type Ia SN 1991bg, M. Hamuy, et al., 1994, AJ, 108, 2226.
Two Views of the Andromeda Galaxy H-alpha and Far Infrared, Nicholas A. Devereux, Rob Price, L. A. Wells, & Neb Duric, 1994, AJ, 108, 1667.
SN1991T: Reflections of Past Glory, Brian P. Schmidt, et. al, 1994, ApJL, 434, L19.
Infrared Imaging of Spiral Galaxies: Colors and Luminosity Profiles, by Don M. Terndrup, R. L. Davies, Jay A. Frogel, Darren L. DePoy, and L. A. Wells, 1994, ApJ, 432, 518.
The 1990 Calan/Tololo Supernova Search, M. Hamuy, et al., 1993, AJ, 106, 2392.
K-Corrections for Type Ia Supernovae, Mario Hamuy, M. M. Phillips, L. A. Wells, and Jose Maza, 1993, PASP, 105, 787.
Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of SN 1990E in NGC 1035: Observational Constraints for Models of Type II Supernovae, Brian P. Schmidt, et al., 1993, AJ, 105, 2236.
SN 1991bg: A Type Ia Supernova with a Difference, Bruno Leibundgut, R. P. Kirshner, M. M. Phillips, L. A. Wells, et al., 1993, AJ, 105, 301.
SN 1991T: Further Evidence of the Heterogeneous Nature of Type Ia Supernovae, by M. M. Phillips, L. A. Wells, N. B. Suntzeff, M. Hamuy, B. Leibundgut, R. P. Kirshner, and C. B. Foltz, 1991, AJ, 103, 1632.
The Evolution and Classification of Postoutburst Novae Spectra, by R. E. Williams, M. Hamuy, M. M. Phillips, S. R. Heathcote, L. A. Wells, and M. Navarrete, 1991, ApJ, 376, 721.

Supernova 1993J in NGC 3031, R. Tweedy, T. Balonek, and L. Wells, 1993, IAU Circular No. 5769.
Supernova 1993J in NGC 3031, A. C. Porter, and L. A. Wells, 1993, IAU Circular No. 5748.
Supernova 1992bd, C. Smith, and L. Wells, 1992, IAU Circular No. 5638.
Supernova 1992as, J. Maza, and L. Wells, 1992, IAU Circular No. 5575.
Supernovae 1992ae and 1992af, L. Wells, and J. Maza, 1992, IAU Circular No. 5554.
The ABCs of CCDs in Astronomy II: Image Reduction, by L. A. Wells, 1992, IAPPP Communications, No. 47.
Supernova 1991al in Anonymous Galaxy, L. Wells, and J. Maza, 1991, IAU Circular No. 5310.
The ABCs of CCDs in Astronomy I: How a CCD Works, by L. Wells, 1990, IAPPP Communications, No. 39.

The EPM Distance to SN 1991al, by Lisa A. Wells, & M. Hamuy. In progress.
The Highly Obscured Supernova 1992bd in NGC 1097, Lisa A. Wells and R. Chris Smith. In progress.
The Bolometric Light Curve of SN 1989B and SN 1991bg, by Lisa A. Wells, A. C. Porter, P. A. Pinto, W. D. Arnett, N. B. Suntzeff, and M. M. Phillips. In progress.
The Bolometric Light Curve of SN 1993J, by Lisa A. Wells, W. D. Arnett, P. A. Pinto, & Nicholas B. Suntzeff. In progress.