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I enjoy pursuing astronomy with telescopes both large and small, and have
worked for several years designing and constructing a portable 30-inch
telescope for quick response to transient events. I also enjoy participating
in public observing programs, to help bring astronomy and space down to
Earth for members of local communities.
I have worked with Dr. Tom Harrison and Doug Hoffman at NMSU to study
eclipsing binaries, as part of a project to implement data-mining for future
large automatic survey telescopes. I determined primary eclipse times for a
large set of eclipsing binaries extracted from low signal to noise data taken
from the ROTSE III Skydot
catalog, to explore eclipsing pulsators, Cepheid Variable stars, and Main
Sequence eclipsers. Follow-up observations were then performed with the NMSU 1-meter
telescope.
I began my graduate studies in June 2008, working with Dr. Nicole Vogt
in the extragalactic research group on quantifying changes in galaxy morphology
and structural and spectral parameters with redshift.
I am strongly interested in cosmology, particularly in dark energy, and in
the role of Population III stars in the formation of structure in the early
universe.
