Student Research Mentoring
I have served as a research mentor to several talented undergraduate and graduate students, as summarized here. If you are a student who is looking to work with me on a project, head over to my page which summarizes my current student research opportunities. At present, I am currently collaborating with these students on projects:
Zach is an undergraduate at the University of Washington. He worked with Amanda Lukens and David Timmis on a project in the fall of 2008 which investigated the death and rebirth of a circumstellar disk surrounding the massive star 60 Cygni. Zach is continuing with this research project in 2009.
Amanda & David are undergraduate students at the University of Washington. Along with fellow undergrad Zach Draper, they studied the death and rebirth of a circumstellar disk surrounding the massive star 60 Cyg in the fall of 2008, under the auspices of the astronomy department’s pre-MAP program.
James is a graduate student at the University of Toledo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is currently working with me (and others) on two projects. The first involves the analysis of FUSE UV spectroscopic observations of post-main-sequence B[e] disk systems in the SMC/LMC, from program H045. The second involves analysis of the first spectropolarimetric observations of candidate intermediate-mass pre-main-sequence stars in the SMC/LMC.
Brad is a graduate student at the University of Toledo’s Physics & Astronomy Department. He did a summer research internship with me at NASA GSFC in 2007, where he analyzed HST ACS WFC images of young stellar associations in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This work is ongoing, along with another project which is analyzing the IR emission from intermediate-mass pre-Main-Sequence stars in the Magellanic Clouds.
Erica is another of Karen Bjorkman’s PhD students at the University of Toledo. She is leading the analysis of a large contemporaneous optical/IR spectroscopic observing campaign on classical Be star disks. Portions of this work represents a follow-up of our 2007 ApJL paper which outlined how such contemporaneous observations could be used to diagnose the density structure of classical Be circumstellar disk systems.
Adam is a PhD student of Suzanne Hawley at the University of Washington. I co-mentored him for a REU project he did while he was an undergraduate, which led to this ApJL paper. He also did a summer RA with me in 2007 as a 1st-year graduate student, involving high contrast imaging of protoplanetary disks with the UKIRT UIST coronagraphic imaging polarimeter.