STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS IN ASTRONOMY
Summer Off-Campus
(Since 1990)
Summer 2005
Summer 2004
Summer 2003
Summer 2002
Summer 2001
- Michelle Caler '02 (Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Haverford College, advisor: R. Bruce Partridge):
- Joseph Converse '03 (New York Science Education Program at Union College, advisor: Jon Marr):
- Michael Fine '02 (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM, advisor: Frazer Owen):
- Jeyhan Kartaltepe '03 (Space Telescope Science Institute, advisor: Henry Ferguson):
- Marko Krco '02 (National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center - Arecibo Observatory, advisor: Snezana Stanimirovic):
- Jennifer Ward '01 (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Undergraduate Research Program, advisor: Bonnie Buratti):
Summer 2000
- Michael Fine '02 *#(Space Telescope Science Institute, advisor: Maur
o Giavalisco): Galaxy Clustering at Redshift z ~ 3
- Andrew N. Hock '00 (NASA Academy, Ames Research Center, advisor: ):
- Mariah Lyndaker '01 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Middleb
ury College, advisor: Frank Winkler): Identification of Possible Supernova R
emnants in the Galaxy M33
- Garrett Mason '03 (New York / NASA Space Grant at Cornell University
, advisor: Steve Eikenberry): Infared Studies of Binary Blackhole and neutro
n Star Systems"
- Jennifer Ward '01 *%(Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, adv
isor: Laurel Kirkland): Surface Composition of Mars: Examination of Syrtis m
ajor Using Thermal Infrared Data
Summer 1999
- Michael Fine '02 *#(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Vassar Co
llege, advisor: Debra Meloy Elmegreen): Deep, Wide-Field Mosaicking and Anal
ysis of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies
- Lauren Heilig '01 (New York / NASA Space Grant at Cornell University
, advisor: Bill Bottke): Modeling Terrestrial Asteroid Impacts
- Timothy Glotch '99 (New York / NASA Space Grant at Cornell Universit
y, advisor: Jim Bell):
- Andrew N. Hock '00 *#%(New York / NASA Space Grant at Cornell Univer
sity, advisor: Peter J. Gierasch): Analysis of Jovian Cloud Structure from G
alileo Image Mosaics
- Meredith Tanguay '02 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Welles
ley College, advisor: Priscilla Benson): Photometric Observations of Classic
al and Beta Cepheids
- Jennifer Ward '01 (Cornell University REU program, advisor: Jim Bell
): Data Reduction and Methods of Analysis of Main Belt Asteroid Images
Summer 1998
- Laurel Brown '99 *%(Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, advi
sor: Joseph M. Hahn): A Source for the Centaurs
- Kelli Corrado '99 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Williams
College, advisor: Karen Kwitter): Chemical Abundances of a Sample of Planeta
ry Nebulae
- Timothy Glotch '99 *%(New York / NASA Space Grant at Cornell Univers
ity, advisor: Bill Bottke): Survey of Elliptical Craters on Venus and the Lu
nar Mare
- Jennifer Heldmann '98 (NASA Academy, Ames Research Center, advisor:
):
Summer 1997
- Laurel Brown '99 *(National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, advisor:
Matthew Penn): Chromospheric Loop Flows in He I 1083 nm
- Kelli Corrado '99 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Vassar Co
llege, advisor: Debra Meloy Elmegreen): A Flocculent Galaxy with a density W
ave? A Study of NGC 4298
- Timothy Glotch '99 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Williams
College, advisor: Jay M. Pasachoff): Coma Morphology of Comet C/1995 O1 (Ha
le-Bopp)
- Jennifer Heldmann '98 *(Space Telescope Science Institute, advisor:
Claus Leitherer): I Zw 18: Low Metal Lab
- Ian Hoffman '98 *(National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank,
WV, advisor: Jay Lockman): The NRAO 140-foot Galactic Plane Neutral Hydrogen
Survey
- Dan Marshall '98 *(SARA Program at Florida Institute of Technology,
advisor: Terry Oswalt): Photometry and Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs in Wide
Binary Systems
Summer 1996
- David Berger '97 *(National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM, advisor:
John Varsik): Experimental Design of Dust Measurements on Glass Durfaces
- Laurel Brown '99 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Wellesley
College, advisor: Priscilla Benson): hey, Those Stars are Varying: technique
s for the Discovery of Variable Stars
- Ian Hoffman '98 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Wellesley
College, advisor: R. Lee Hawkins): Optimization of the Data Collection and C
ontrol Systems on the Wellesley College 24" Sawyer Telescope
- Dan Marshall '98 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Vassar Col
lege, advisor: Debra Meloy Elmegreen): Star-Forming Regions in the Center of
NGC 5248
- Matthew Pickard '98 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at William
s College, advisor: Jay M. Pasachoff): Determining the Temperature of the So
lar Corona from the Electron-Scattering Continuum
- Jonathan Wong '98 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Haverford
College, advisor: Stephen P. Boughn): Photometry of the Rich Cluster Abell
2029
Summer 1995
- David Berger '97 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Wellesley
College, advisor: R. Lee Hawkins): The Instrumentation of the 14-inch Telesc
ope at Whitin Observatory
- Stacey M. Davis '97 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Wesleya
n University, advisor: William Herbst): The Period of T Tauri Stars
- Jennifer Heldmann '98 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Willi
ams College, advisor: Deborah Maraziti): On a Crash Course: Galaxy-Galaxy In
teractions
- Daniel Pierkowski '96 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Willi
ams College, advisor: Karen Kwitter): Carbon Abundances in Planetary nebulae
: A Case Study of NGC 1535
Summer 1994
- David Helms '95 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Wellesley C
ollege, advisor: Hank Donnelly): Reducing Galaxy Clusters: Abell Cluster 278
as a test Case
- Jeff Kern '95 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Vassar Colleg
e, advisor: Fred Chromey): Absorption by Dust in the Central regions of M81<
/i>
- Dan Pierkowski '96 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Vassar C
ollege, advisor: Debra Elmegreen): Spiral Structure in the Edhe-On Spiral ga
laxy NGC 891
- Eric Spaulding '96 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Williams
College, advisor: Jay M. Pasachoff): Determining the Galactic Deuterium Abu
ndance
Summer 1993
- Jennifer Bastolla '96 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Swart
hmore College, advisor: Wulff Heintz): Astrometry of Dwarf and Binary Stars<
/I>
- Chris Strom '94 *(Pew New York State Cluster at Cornell University,
advisor: Martha Haynes): The Galaxy Luminosity Function in the Galaxy Cluste
r Abell 1367
- Christy Tremonti '94 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Willia
ms College, advisor: Jay M. Pasachoff): The Search for Deuterium in Molecula
r Clouds and B Stars
Summer 1992
- Chris Strom '94 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Swarthmore
College, advisor: Wulff Heintz): Astrometry of Dwarf and Binary Stars
Summer 1991
Summer 1990
- Rob Curran '91 *(Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium at Wellesley Co
llege, advisor: Priscilla Benson): Looking at Ammonia in Dark Molecular Clou
ds
*#% indicates Research Paper Presented at Meeting
(*Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium Student Research Symposium,
#National Conference on Undergraduate Research,
%Professional Meeting [Lunar and Planetary Conference, Astrobiology Confernece])
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