Independent journalism
Pop Rocks, Sweet Tarts ↗
Profiles Wax Models and traces Ruby’s earlier bands.
Dan Ruby (Oregon)
Sources & public record
Selected reporting, research and original work behind the biography.
Independent reporting sits alongside institutional histories, public records and first-person accounts. The labels below distinguish those sources and identify research authorship separately from field contributions.
Music, art & creative work
Independent journalism
Rock Together ↗
Connects his music, record-cover art and work at Fleischmann Planetarium.
Independent journalism
Eco-Event: Winter Riding Workshop ↗
Documents Ruby teaching bicycle skills with Reno Bike Project.
Published event announcement
Holland presents third annual Forage event ↗
Event announcement documenting the original live score directed by Ruby and performed by more than 15 musicians.
Institutional source
Stay Gold ↗
Archives a collaboration between the arts, bicycling and planetarium communities.
Institutional source
Summer Rooftop Blowout Party ↗
Institutional record of Stay Gold programming.
Journalism · relationship disclosed
The Voyage Home ↗
Profiles 33–45 and its musical, visual and space-exploration influences. The author discloses a longstanding friendship with Ruby.
Creative-work documentation / artist reaction
Poster Children Unboxing Dan Ruby and Friends: 33–45 ↗
Poster Children examine the limited-edition LP’s artwork and accompanying manual, offering a firsthand view of its visual, literary and space-exploration references.
Music catalog
Dan Ruby — artist profile ↗
Lists 33–45 (2018) and later recordings.
Institutional program announcement
Snowed in: winter 2017 residency recap ↗
Documents Ruby working with interdisciplinary arts graduate students to make and screen experimental video in a digital projection dome.
Original creative work
Overture: Voyage A Travers L’Impossible ↗
Recording from Ruby’s YouTube channel.
Original creative work
Reprise: Die Endeckung des Nordpols ↗
Recording from Ruby’s YouTube channel; title follows the published video.
Archived institutional event announcement
Rhizome Digest: November 8, 2006 ↗
Archives an institutional announcement for the first Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media. Ruby is listed as the planetarium contact for a program of experimental video and animation designed for 360-degree dome projection.
Independent journalism
Ride on ↗
Documents the recurring Dan’s Night bicycle-maintenance program at Reno Bike Project, begun during the recession and still running in 2016.
First-person article by Dan Ruby
Ride on ↗
Ruby’s first-person article offers practical guidance on winter bicycle commuting and describes winter-riding education.
Research & fieldwork
Institutional source
Planetarium’s associate director takes part in NASA project ↗
Documents Ruby’s participation in Spaceward Bound.
Institutional source
Associate director named to NASA research expedition ↗
Describes the Earth-Mars Cave Detection expedition and Ruby’s mapping work.
Expedition account
2009 Atacama Desert Expedition, Earth-Mars Cave Detection Project ↗
Identifies Ruby as cartography lead and describes his contributions to cave-volume estimation.
Expedition account
Rapa Nui Cave Biodiversity Expedition Successful! ↗
Records the separate biological expedition, including field sampling and photography.
Research report
Biological Sampling of Rapa Nui Caves ↗
Identifies Ruby as communications officer and field technician.
Peer-reviewed research
Rapa Nui terrestrial isopod research ↗
Later research acknowledging expedition field assistance; Ruby is not an author of this paper.
Institutional source
Educators Selected to Fly on NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Observatory ↗
Lists Ruby among the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors.
Co-authored journal article
Results from the 2014 November 15th Multi-chord Stellar Occultation by the TNO (229762) 2007 UK126 ↗
Co-authored paper reporting observations by RECON and International Occultation Timing Association collaborators; Ruby is credited as D. W. Ruby.
Co-authored conference abstract
Novel Volumetric Cave Mapping Process Utilizing Existing Technologies ↗
Conference abstract 8031, co-authored by Ruby, Wynne and Titus. A copy is also available on ResearchGate.
Institutional bibliography
Cave Ecology Laboratory — publications ↗
Lists the 2011 mapping abstract and the co-authored 2010 abstract The Atacama Desert Cave Shredder: A Case for Conduction Thermodynamics.
Science education
Institutional source
Student engineering team wins top honors at Inaugural NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge ↗
Documents the AACT partnership and its student engineering work.
Institutional source
Washoe County student engineering team comes in third at NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge ↗
Documents the AACT team’s third-place finish and System Safety Award, and identifies Ruby as team advisor. Excerpted from University of Nevada, Reno reporting.
Independent journalism
Space Cadets ↗
Reports on Ruby’s role bringing the NASA challenge to AACT and the program’s interdisciplinary approach.
Institutional report
Campus Sustainability Report ↗
Lists Ruby as a participant in the Campus Life Working Group on printed page 62. This documents working-group participation, rather than sole authorship of the report.
Institutional announcement
Free Admission Day at the Planetarium and Science Center ↗
Quotes Ruby on the educational purpose of the planetarium’s solar-panel and wind-turbine installation. It documents public education about renewable energy, without attributing installation or design to him.
Independent interview
Rocket man ↗
Interview about Ruby’s SOFIA application with Matt Oates, training and plans to connect airborne astronomy with education.
Independent trade reporting
Miami and Reno pubcasters partner for lunar eclipse webcast in December ↗
Announces Ruby’s planned hosting role in a lunar-eclipse webcast involving KNPB, WPBT2’s Star Gazers and Cincinnati Observatory. The announcement establishes the planned role, rather than confirming the completed broadcast.
Oregon & community leadership
Institutional source
Dan Ruby, director of the Fleischmann Planetarium, accepts job at a science museum in Oregon ↗
Documents more than 12 years at Fleischmann and the transition to Scienceworks Museum in Ashland.
Public-radio interview
Be a Maker, For a Day ↗
Interview about Scienceworks Museum and hands-on making.
First-person article by Dan Ruby
Apollo 50: New Perspectives ↗
Ruby’s first-person account of ScienceWorks’ Apollo anniversary exhibit, combining a historic NASA mission-control console with hands-on simulations.
Official public record
Board of Education meeting minutes ↗
Records Ruby serving as Foundation executive director.
Institutional source
Dan Ruby — Business Development Lead ↗
Background on his earlier career and former Geos contract. The staff page has not been updated to reflect the end of that work; it is not evidence of current employment.
Institutional source
Advisory Board ↗
Lists Ruby as a member of the advisory board.
Independent journalism
Ruby named executive director of Southern Oregon Climate Now ↗
Reports on Ruby’s appointment as executive director of Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN), effective October 1, 2026, and his background in science education and nonprofit leadership.
Public service & identity
Official public record
Ashland School Board directory ↗
Lists Dan Ruby in School Board Position 2.
Endorsing organization’s candidate profile
Dan Ruby — LGBTQ+ Victory Fund ↗
Documents Ruby’s candidacy and presents a biography covering science education, museum leadership, housing and school-board service.
Political reference
Dan Ruby (Oregon) ↗
Records education, school-board tenure and the 2024 congressional election. Some biographical material is candidate supplied.
Candidate-supplied statement
2024 Primary Election voters’ pamphlet ↗
Candidate-supplied statement listing education, occupational history and Sunstone Housing Collaborative. Publication in an official pamphlet is not independent verification.
Self-published
About Dan Ruby ↗
First-person account of housing and public-service work, including the City Council campaign.
Political reference
Dan Ruby — 2026 Ashland City Council candidate profile ↗
Documents the November 3, 2026 election for four at-large seats. Biographical information is candidate-supplied; the page also reproduces campaign material.