Welcome to the NMSU Astronomy Graduate Student Organization website! The AGSO was created to interface the astronomy graduate students with the more general student organizations (ASNMSU, GSC) and the astronomy department. In this website we've compiled advice and information for incoming and current graduate students. Below you will find information on our current grad students. Curious about previous students? Check out the astronomy department alumi page.

AGSO Officers President: Kenza Arraki Vice-President: Jean McKeever Secretary: Diane Feuillet Treasurer: Nick Ule GSO Representative: Sam Schonfeld Cumulative Exam Czar: Carlos Vargas Website Manager: Jacob Vander Vliet Astro Coffee Kaiser: Teresa Ross, Elizabeth Klimek, and Adam McKay Meteorology Magister: Robert Edmonds Co-op Coordinator: Meredith Rawls Tea Time Overlord: Laura Mayorga Extragalactic Beer Leader: Carlos Vargas Liaison to Undergraduate Affairs: Kyle Uckert

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Kenza Arraki Simulating galactic evolution; QSOs President liaison between astronomy grad students and faculty NSF Graduate Research Fellowship	Malynda "Sparkles" Chizek Astrobiology; methane on Mars HED, New Mexico Space Grant, Pegasus Teaching Award	Kyle "Downstairs" Degrave Extragalactic astronomy; solar astronomy New Mexico Space Grant
Bobby "Stormchaser" Edmonds Atmosphere modeling; storm chasing Meteorology Magister predicts the weather for star parties and campus observatory NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)	Diane "D-Dawg" Feuillet APOGEE, red giant abundance analysis, globular clusters Secretary recharters the GSO, handles outreach bookkeeping	Candace "Meeeer" Gray Planetary atmospheres; formation and evolution of gas giants and satellites; comet composition Pegasus Award, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)
Michael "the Hayd" Hayden The high redshift universe; galactic halos; exoplanet detection	Liz "Little Budgie" Klimek Quasar absorption lines; active galaxy evolution; outreach Astro Coffee Kaiser organizes journal club New Mexico Space Grant, Rappaport Award	Gordon "G-Snizz" MacDonald Solar flares, space weather
Sean "Shark Boy" Markert Simulated dwarf galaxies; Large scale structure	Nigel Mathes Galaxy kinematics and IGM using quasar absorption lines Space Grant	Laura Mayorga Extrasolar planets Tea Time schedules the weekly food and beverages NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, HED
Adam "the cannon" McKay Comets; KBO's; icy satellites; asteroids Astro Coffee Kaiser organizes journal club Graduate Research Enhancement Grant, NASA GSRP	Jean McKeever Asteroseismology; red giants Vice President organizes volunteers for outreach events	Rakesh Nath Helioseismology, asteroseismology
Nikki Nielsen Quasar absorption lines; MgII CGM; Galaxy evolution New Mexico Space Grant, Graduate Research Enhancement Grant	Meredith Rawls Eclipsing binaries; stellar evolution; asteroseismology Co-op maintains kitchen munchie cabinet Space Grant	Teresa "T-Bone" Ross Dwarf galaxies: metallicity and chemical evolution Astro Coffee Kaiser organizes journal club Graduate Assistant Award
Sam "Creampuff" Schonfeld Solar astronomy, stellar astronomy GSO Representative attends GSC meetings Space Grant	Greg Taylor Adaptive optics to study solar prominances; telescope instrumentation Graduate Research Enhancement Award	Sebastian "Seabass" Trujillo Cosmology; galaxy formation and evolution
Kyle "Upstairs" Uckert Ice giant atmospheres, astrobiology, instrumentation Liaison to Undergraduate Affairs helps organize events with the undergraduate astronomy club	Nick "The Axe" Ule Variable stars; star spots; extrasolar planets Treasurer handles group funding requests, organizes Spring cabin trip Space Grant	Jacob "JCB" Vander Vliet Simulated circumgalactic medium; Galaxy evolution Web Admin webmaster for AGSO site Space Grant
Carlos Vargas Cosmology, galaxy evolution Extra Galactic Beer (EGB) organizes fun activities that might or might not involve beer Cume Czar maintains book of cume solutions, arranges solution sessions	Cat "Ninja Cat" Wu Multi-slit spectroscopy of edge-on galaxies; vertical rotation gradients of halo gas from H-alpha observations HED, New Mexico Space Grant, Pegasus Award