Current and former students


Evan Rich (MS 2016 (expected), PhD 2018 (expected))
Steven Silverberg (MS 2016, PhD 2018 (expected))
Brennan Kerkstra
Kellen Lawson
 

Current OU grad students:

Former students:



Adam Kowalski (University of Toledo REU student; research co-mentor)

Adam went on to get his PhD at the University of Washington in 2012, and now is a NPP fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.  Adam has mad breakdancing skills and taught me two intro freeze moves, which I can still do somewhat adequately!  He also survived a 17-mile open-ocean kayak excursion along Kauai’s Napali coast with me following an observing run.


Adam & I have been on observing runs at the UKIRT, Subaru, KPNO 2.1m, WIYN 0.9m, DAO 1.8m, and APO 3.5m+0.5m (remotely) telescope facilities.



Ben Tofflemire (University of Washington undergrad; primary mentor)

Ben is currently an astronomy graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  As an undergraduate, he narrowly survived an encounter with a Kona shark before our planned Subaru observing run.  He won two Mary Gates Research scholarships at UW to support his undergraduate research, and also did a summer REU at the University of Wisconsin.


Ben & I have been on observing runs at the KPNO 2.1m and APO 3.5m (onsite and remotely) telescope facilities.



Zack Draper (University of Washington undergrad; primary mentor)

Zack is now an astronomy graduate student at the University of Victoria.  He worked with me for 4 years at UW on analyzing archival spectropolarimetric observations of classical Be stars.  He won departmental and University-wide research awards as a result of this work, was a Washington Space Grant SURP intern, and did a summer REU at the University of Toledo.




Brad Rush (University of Toledo grad student; science mentor)

After getting his MS in physics, Brad went on to work with the Spitz planetarium company.



Amanda Lukens & David Timmins (University of Washington undergrads; primary mentor)



Raina D’Aleo (University of Washington undergrad; primary mentor)



Anthony Paat (University of Washington undergrad; primary mentor)



Keaton Bell (University of Washington undergrad; primary mentor)

Keaton is currently an astronomy graduate student at the University of Texas.


Heather Gunning (Univ of Washington undergrad; primary mentor) Heather is currently a research analyst at Space Telescope Science Institute.
 

Current OU undergraduate students:


Matthew Peters
Anthony Burrow
 

Former OU group members:


Jodi Berdis (BS; current graduate student at NMSU); Marcus Keil (BS; current graduate student at U. Bonn); Matt Scheffler (BS); Josiah Purdum; Jared Brown; Jamie Miller (BS); Steven Ferguson (BS); Libby Dabrowski (REU); Jun Hashimoto (postdoc); Jamie Lomax (postdoc)