Research
Interests
I work in the Astronomy Department in Jim Houck's
group with Jeronimo Bernard-Salas determining the amounts of elements
and looking at dust properties in planetary nebulae and HII regions in
our galaxy and nearby galaxies.
Papers
Presentations
- star2map.pdf star2map, IRS Science Team Meeting in Ithaca July 16, 2004
- wolfrayet.pdf Wolf-Rayet Galaxies, Galaxy Lunch September 24, 2004
- aas205.pdf Infrared Line Ratios in Starburst Galaxies, poster at the 205th Meeting of the AAS January 2005
- abundgrad.pdf Abundance Gradients and the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way, Galaxy Lunch February 11, 2005
- ngc1569.pdf Metallic X-Ray Winds in NGC1569 , Galaxy Lunch September 30, 2005
- BCD_Intro.pdf Introduction to Blue Compact Dwarfs , Astronomy 671, 20 minute talk, February 13, 2006
- planetary_nebulae.pdf Spitzer IRS Observation of LMC Planetary Nebula SMP 83, Astronomy 671, 20 minute talk, March 6, 2006
- m82_xray.pdf Stellar and Gaseous Abundances in M82, Galaxy Lunch March 10, 2006
- casA.pdf Infrared Echoes Near the Supernova Remnant Casseopeia A , Astronomy 671, 20 minute talk, April 3, 2006
- enceladus.pdf Cassini Encounters Enceladus: Background and the Discovery of a South Polar Hot Spot , Astronomy 671, 20 minute talk, April 10, 2006
- C+SF.pdf The 158 Micron [C II] Line: A Measure of Global Star Formation Activity in Galaxies, Astronomy 671, 20 minute talk, April 24, 2006
- ngc646.pdf Abundances in Starburst Galaxies: The Case of NGC 6946, Galaxy Lunch February 9, 2007
- aas210.pdf Tracing Abundance Gradients in Galaxies with the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Spectrograph, poster at the 210th Meeting of the AAS May 2007
- pseudobulges.pdf Galaxies with Pseudobulges: Rebels that Break the Rules, Galaxy Lunch September 7, 2007
- dissertation_talk.pdf Chemical Abundances and Dust in Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Bulge, B Exam April 16, 2008