Curriculum Vitae + Professional Sites
Please click the buttons below to view my CV and resume (both updated September 2023) and my professional sites.
Graduate Research
My research focuses on Doppler imaging seismology of the Gas Giants in an effort to constrain both their internal structure and atmospheric dynamics, coupled with development and build of astronomical instrumentation (which we have named PMODE: the Planetary Multilevel Oscillations and Dynamics Experiment) to collect these measurements.
More information can be found in a recorded presentation linked to the right, presented at the 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, and a paper linked to the right, detailing design of a new instrument (PMODE) to search for Jovian oscillations, the corresponding observational campaign, and first results regarding my search for Jupiter-quakes.
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Top trio of images:
The ray-tracing (Zemax) design, CAD model, and breadboard assembly for the original version of PMODE.
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Bottom trio of images:
Data collected during a 24-day observing run using PMODE on the AEOS 3.6m telescope, atop Mt. Haleakala, Maui, HI displaying (left to right), the MOF image displaying velocity sensitivity as a dark band, the continuum image recorded simultaneously with no velocity sensitivity, and finally, a Dopplergram (the velocity image divided by the continuum image), where pixel intensity values correspond to Doppler velocities towards and away from the observer within the dark absorption band.
Undergraduate Research
My undergraduate research was done at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on spectroscopic reductions, modeling, and analysis of white dwarf stars, a highly valuable calibration source for data.
The work I did was primarily used to support calibrations for the Dark Energy Survey. More information can be found at a presentation linked below, presented at the 2018 Kentucky Regional AAS meeting, and a poster linked below, presented at the 2018 National AAS meeting in Washington, D.C.
Shown to the right is an example of a DA (pure hydrogen atmosphere) white dwarf, with two different atmosphere models fit to it.
