Scientific Research Projects
Items below are listed earliest first. Those with no links are referenced in my CV. Some are rather old, but the publications are freely available, as all science and knowledge ought to be.
Continental Water Flow for Global General Circulation Models of the Earth
The New York Academy of Sciences Summer Internship for High School Students
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York
Tidal Bores: When a River Runs Backwards
Westinghouse Science Talent Search
Horace Mann High School and Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University
Pulsars as Probes of the Interstellar Medium
National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Arecibo Observatory, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Puerto Rico
The Geometry of Active Galactic Nuclei
National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates
The Very Large Array, National Radio Astronomy Observatories, Socorro, New Mexico
Direct Detection of Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars
PhD Thesis, California Institute of Technology with the Johns Hopkins Adaptive Optics Coronagraph
Palomar 60-inch Oscar Mayer and D-78 at the 200-inch Hale Telescopes, Palomar Observatory
“This thesis presents the first direct detection of a substellar companion of a star other than the Sun.”
California institute of Technology, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Palomar 200-Inch Hale Telescope, Palomar Observatory
Adaptive Optics Coronagraphy-PHARO
California institute of Technology, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Cornell University
Palomar 200-Inch Hale Telescope, Palomar Observatory
Faint White Dwarfs in the Galaxy’s Halo
Cambridge University, University of California—Berkeley, Edinburgh University’s Institute for Astronomy
The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile
American Museum of Natural History’s Department of Astrophysics, Cornell University, University of Hawaii
Advanced Electro-Optical System, United States Air Force, Haleakala Observatory, Maui, Hawaii
American Museum of Natural History, California Institute of Technology, Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Palomar 200-Inch Hale Telescope, Palomar Observatory
This project, commissioned by the International Gemini Observatories, involved my team at AMNH, and others at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the University of Montreal, and the University of California, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz.
At AMNH, we built the starlight suppression system, at the core of several upcoming NASA Great Observatories.
The Palomar Radial Velocity Instrument (PARVI)
This is a collaboration between my group and Dr. Vasisht’s at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Although the instrument is designed to study stars in the night, during the day we collect data on a star called the Sun as though it were distant and unresolved.