Current Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Post-Secondary Education:
2002 Ph.D., Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin
1998 M.A., Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin
1996 Honours B.Sc., University of Toronto, With Distinction
Observing Allocations:
Hubble Space Telescope
Keck Observatory, Hawaii:
10-m Keck I HIRES échelle spectrograph
McDonald Observatory, Texas:
9.2-m H.E.T. HRS échelle spectrograph
2.7-m 2d-coudé échelle & LCS spectrographs
2.1-m Sandiford échelle spectrograph
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hawaii:
8.2-m Subaru HDS échelle spectrograph
Paranal Observatory, Chile:
8.2-m VLT FLAMES-UVES spectrograph
Gemini Observatory South, Chile:
8.1-m Gemini South Phoenix high resolution spectrometer
Las Campanas Observatory, Chile:
Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona:
4.0-m cassegrain échelle spectrograph
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile:
4.0-m cassegrain échelle spectrograph
Anglo-Australian Observatory, Siding Spring, Australia:
3.9-m UCLES and UHRF spectrographs
Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico:
3.5-m ARC echelle spectrograph
Mount Stromlo Siding Spring Observatory, Australia:
2.3-m ATT Double-Beam Spectrograph
Mount Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia:
74-inch échelle spectrograph
Palomar Observatory, California:
60-inch échelle spectrograph
Conferences & Workshops:
- SDSS+SEGUE Technical Meetings
March/April 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- GMT High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy Workshop
March 2007, Cambridge, MS, USA
- 4th VISTARS Workshop on Nuclear Physics
March 2007, Russbach, Austria
- International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics: Nuclei in the Cosmos IX
June 2006, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Nuclei in Globular Clusters -- Satellite Workshop of Nuclei in the Cosmos IX
June 2006, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland
- SDSS/SEGUE Technical Meeting
March 2006, Sante Fe, NM, USA
- 3rd VISTARS Workshop on Nuclear Physics
March 2006, Russbach, Austria
- VIII Torino Workshop on Nucleosynthesis in AGB Stars: Constraints on AGB Nucleosynthesis from Observations
February 2006, Granada, Spain
- From Li to U: Elemental Tracers of Early Cosmic Evolution (IAU Symp. 228)
22-27 May, 2005, Paris, France
- SEGUE Technical Meeting
13-15 May, 2005, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA
- Annual Hubble Symposium
7-8 April, 2005, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
- American Astronomical Society Meeting #205
9-13 January, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
- First Symposium on Magellan Science
7-8 January, 2005, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, USA
- ESO-Arcetri Workshop on Chemical Abundances and Mixing in the Milky Way and its Satellites
12-17 September, 2004, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
- Cosmic Abundances as Records of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
17-19 June, 2004, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology
12-16 April, 2004, A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
- Nuclear Astrophysics Workshop XII
22-27 March, 2004, Ringberg Castle, Germany
- American Astronomical Society Meeting #203
4-8 January, 2004, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Annual Hubble Symposium
9-10 December, 2003, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Stellar Populations
6-10 October, 2003, Garching, Germany
- International Astronomical Union
General Assembly, 12-25 July, 2003, Sydney, Australia
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The 5th Workshop on Galactic Chemodynamics
9-11 July, 2003, Melbourne, Australia
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Annual Hubble Symposium
6-7 March, 2003, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Origin and Evolution of the Elements, Carnegie Observatories Centennial Symposium IV
16-21 February 2003, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, USA
- American Astronomical Society Meeting #201
January 2003, Seattle, WA, USA
- The r-process: New Experimental, Theoretical, and Observational Opportunities, Workshop of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
October 2002, Gull Lake, MI, USA
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Stellar Abundances & Nucleosynthesis Conference
- A Stellar Get-Together
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Low Z at Low z and High z: Early Chemical Evolution
2002, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Galaxies: Mind Over Matter
- American Astronomical Society Meeting #199
January 2002, Washington, D.C., USA
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The Dynamics, Structure, and History of Galaxies
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Astronomical Society of Australia: 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting
2001, Lorne, Victoria, Australia
- American Astronomical Society Meeting #196
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Star 2000: Dynamics of Star Clusters and the Milky Way
2000, Heidelberg, Germany
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The Galactic Halo: From Globular Clusters to Field Stars
- American Astronomical Society Meeting #193
January 1999, Austin, TX, USA
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Galaxy Evolution: Connecting the Distant Universe with the Local Fossil Record
Professional Society Memberships:
- International Astronomical Union
- American Astronomical Society
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