Research Interests
I (finally) graduate from LSU in May
of 2000 with a wonderful group
of people. LSU was a great experience. Now, I am at The University of
Alabama, which has greatly exceeded my expectations. They have
given me wonderful
opportunites that I might not have gotten at another graduate school. For
example, this fall I will be teaching my first lecture course.
I passed the qualifying exam in January of 2002 and promptly asked
Dr. Buta
if he would be willing to advise me through the dissertation process.
He focuses on galactic morphology, which I find fascinating as well as
comprehensible.
We have two projects that we are working on simultaneously.
The Properties of non-barred ringed galaxies
We have just been awarded five nights to image 36 galaxies in
five filters on the 1.5m telescope at the
Cerro Tololo observatory
in Chile.
We propose
to connect barred and non-barred galaxies through evolutionary
processes by focusing of galactic rings
Finding leading structure in spiral galaxies
NGC 4622 is
an example of this extremely rare leading structure.
| Location |
Date |
Telescope + Instrument |
| CTIO |
August 2002 |
1.5-m TEK 2K direct imager |
| CTIO |
December 2003 |
0.9-m TEK 2K direct imager |
| CTIO |
June 2004 |
4.0-m RC Spectrograph |