Department Alumni
(updated 12-Jul-2024)
| Name | Year | Degree | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguirre, Erick | 2024 | MS | none | Burchett |
| Sanchez, Cristo | 2024 | MS | none | Jackiewicz |
| Canas, Manny | 2023 | MS (thesis) | A Solution for the Density Dichotomy Problem of Kuiper Belt Objects With Multi-Species Streaming Instability and Pebble Accretion | Lyra |
| Hasan, Farhanul | 2024 | PhD | On the Evolution of Galaxies in Cosmic Ecosystems | Burchett |
| Hedlund, Annie | 2024 | PhD | Discovery and characterization of binary star systems containing a red giant pulsator as a testbed for asteroseismology | Jackiewicz |
| Hyder, Ali | 2024 | PhD | The Interplay of Moist Convective and Diffusive Transport in the Jovian Atmosphere | Chanover |
| Varakian, Matthew | 2024 | PhD | An Investigation of Main Belt Asteroids via Three-Micron Phase Curves | Chanover |
| Vesa, Oana | 2024 | PhD | Dynamics of the Solar Atmosphere Observed with the Dunn Solar Telescope | Shetye |
| Beom, Minje | 2023 | PhD | The Formation of Counter-rotating Gas Disks and its Impact on the Evolution of Galaxies | Walterbos |
| DeColibus, Riley | 2023 | PhD | A New Look at the Surface Composition of Miranda | Chanover |
| Herczeg, Aleczander | 2024 | PhD | Applying Bayesian Methods to Local Helioseismology | Jackiewicz |
| Imig, Julie | 2023 | PhD | A Galactic Self-Portrait: Chemical Cartography, Density Structure, and Integrated Properties of the Milky Way Disk | Holtzman |
| Kovac, Sarah | 2022 | PhD | Solar Wind Conditions During observations of Venusian Aurora | McAteer |
| Luchsinger, Kristen | 2022 | PhD | The Deposition, Retention, and Disruption of Water Ice at the Lunar Poles Across Temporal and Spatial Scales | Chanover |
| Marra, Rachel | 2022 | PhD | An Observer’s Examination of the Circumgalactic Medium Using Cosmological Simulations | Churchill |
| Picard, Trevor | 2018 | MS | none | Holtzman |
| Sellers, Sean | 2022 | PhD | Solar Flare Energy Deposition and Response Throughout the Chromosphere and Transition Region | McAteer |
| Berdis, Jodi | 2021 | PhD | Implications for Surface Processes Through the Investigation of Crystalline and Amorphous Water Ice on Europa | Murphy |
| Chojnowski, Drew | 2020 | PhD | H-Band Spectroscopy of Exotic, Massive Stars | Holtzman |
| Dahl, Emma | 2021 | PhD | Color and Structure of Jupiter's Uppermost Cloud Deck During the Juno Era | Chanover |
| Doughty, Caitlin | 2021 | PhD | Implications of z>5 metal absorption for the sources and progression of hydrogen reionization | Finlator |
| Dederick, Ethan | 2018 | PhD | Seismic Inferences of Gas Giant Planets: Excitation & Interiors | Jackiewicz |
| Emmett, Jeremy | 2020 | PhD | Dependence upon Obliquity of the Formation of Martian PLD Vertical Structure | Murphy |
| Hall, Agnar | 2018 | MS | Prescott | |
| Mathes, Gavin | 2017 | MS | Finlator | |
| Hasselquist, Sten | 2018 | PhD | Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Using APOGEE | Holtzman |
| Kahre, Lauren | 2019 | PhD | Extinction Mapping and Dust-to-Gas Ratios of Nearby Galaxies | Walterbos |
| Steakley, Kathryn | 2018 | PhD | Impact heating of the early Martian climate | Murphy |
| Thelen, Alexander | 2018 | PhD | The Chemical Composition and Dynamics of Titan's Atmosphere As Revealed by ALMA | Chanover |
| MacDonald, Gordon | 2018 | PhD | Validating the Next Generation of Data-Assimilative Space Weather Models | McAteer |
| Mayorga, Laura | 2017 | PhD | The Orbital and Planetary Phase Variations of Jupiter-Sized Planets: Characterizing Present and Future Giant | Jackiewicz |
| Schonfeld, Sam | 2017 | PhD | Identifying the Sources and Variability of Solar F10.7 with Differential Emission Measures | McAteer |
| Vargas, Carlos | 2018 | PhD | CONNECTING STAR FORMATION TO INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM COMPONENTS OF THE INNER HALO IN NEARBY GALAXIES | Walterbos |
| Feuillet, Diane | 2016 | PhD | Ages and Abundance of Local Galactic Stellar Populations | Holtzman |
| Markert, Sean | 2017 | PhD | The Signal of Weak Gravitational Lensing from Galaxy Groups and Clusters | Klypin |
| Mathes, Nigel | 2017 | PhD | The Vulture Survey of MgII and CIV Absorbers: Feasting on the Bones of Spectra Left to Die | Churchill |
| McKeever, Jean | 2017 | PhD | Asteroseismology of Red Giants: The Detailed Modeling of Red Giants in Eclipsing Binary Systems | Jackiewicz |
| Vandervliet, Jacob | 2017 | PhD | Observing the Baryon Cycle in Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations | Churchill |
| Arraki, Kenz | 2016 | PhD | Evolution of Dwarf Galaxy Properties in Local Group Environments | Klypin |
| Gray, Candace | 2015 | PhD | The Effect of Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Co-rotating Interaction Regions on the Venusian 5577 Angstrom Oxygen Green Line | Chanover |
| Hayden, Michael | 2015 | PhD | Chemical Cartography of the Milky Way with SDSS-III/APOGEE | Holtzman |
| Rawls, Meredith | 2016 | PhD | Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries as a Benchmark for Asteroseismology | Jackiewicz |
| Uckert, Kyle | 2016 | PhD | Characterization of Biosignatures within Geologic Samples Analyzed using a Suite of in situ Techniques | Chanover |
| Degrave, Kyle | 2015 | PhD | Time-Distance Helioseismology: Testing the State-of-the-Art for Investigating the Structure of Sunspots and Supergranulatio | Jackiewicz |
| Gleed, Mark | 2012 | MS | Merging Rates of Large Galactic Halos: Comparing Observations and Cosmological Simulations | Klypin |
| McCleary, Jacqueline | 2011 | MS | Kinematic and Photometric Decompositions of Observed and Simulated Disk Galaxies: Theoretical and Observational Predictions | Vogt |
| Nielsen, Nikki | 2015 | PhD | Tracing Galaxy Evolution Through Spatial and Kinematic Probes of the MgII Circumgalactic Medium | Churchill |
| Ross, Teresa | 2015 | PhD | Exploring Dwarf Galaxy Evolution through Metallicity Distributions | Holtzman |
| Ule, Nick | 2015 | PhD | Quantifying Differential Rotation Across the Stellar Main Sequence | Harrison |
| Clark, MJ | 2012 | MS (thesis) | The Search for Orphan Optical Afterglows from Gamma-ray Bursts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: Supernova Survey | Holtzman |
| Edmonds, Bobby | 2014 | PhD | Examination of Two Martian Atmosphere Dust Phenomena: Dust Devil Acoustics and Gravity Wave Forcing of Dust Storm Deve | Murphy |
| Kirk, Michael | 2013 | PhD | The Anatomy of Chromospheric Flares and Associated Ephemeral Brightenings | Jackiewicz |
| McKay, Adam | 2013 | PhD | The Volatile Composition of Comets as Inferred from Gas Production | Chanover |
| Taylor, Greg | 2014 | PhD | Development and Operation of an Off-Limb Solar AO system | McAteer |
| Teal, David | 2012 | MS (thesis) | Martian Middle-Latitude Stationary Waves as Manifested in MRO MCS Retrieved Temperature Data | Murphy |
| Wehland, Leland | 2012 | MS (thesis) | The Selection, Mounting, and Integration of an Infrared Photon-Counting APD Module for J-Band Astronomical Photometry on | Harrison |
| Chizek, Malynda | 2013 | PhD | Data and Model Investigation of Martian Methane and Other Trace Gases | Murphy |
| Coughlin, Jeff | 2012 | PhD | Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanets and their Host Stars | Harrison |
| Carlson, Randy | 2010 | PhD | Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Saturn's Haze and Vertical Phosphine Distribution at 3 microns from 2005 to 2010 | Chanover |
| Klimek, Liz | 2024 | PhD | Exploring Causal Relationships Between Disk and Halo Processes in L* Galaxies at Cosmic Noon | Churchill |
| Patterson, Maria | 2013 | PhD | Properties of Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium in Galaxy Outskirts | Walterbos |
| Trujillo, Sebastian | 2014 | PhD | The Interplay Between Baryons and DM in the Process of Galaxy Formation | Klypin |
| Hamilton, Ryan | 2013 | PhD | Constraining Photospheric Abundances of Donor Stars in Cataclysmic Variables | Harrison |
| Miller, Chas | 2013 | PhD | Methods for Constraining Surface Properties and Volatile Migration on Phoebe, Triton, Pluto, and the Moon | Chanover |
| Lindsay, Sean | 2012 | PhD | Discrete Dipole Approximation Model of Crystalline Forsterite | Murphy |
| Campbell, Allison (Widhalm) | 2008 | MS | Gas Dynamics in the Milky Way Galaxy | Churchill |
| Cisneros, Sophia | 2008 | PhD, Physics | ||
| Choi, Jiehae | 2009 | MS | Multi-Longslit Spectroscopy for Kinematic Studies | Walterbos |
| Avila, Roberto | 2008 | MS | Metallicity Gradients in the Stellar Populations of M33 | Holtzman/Churchill |
| Bornak, Jillian | 2012 | PhD | A New Approach to Modeling Dust Emission in Classical Novae | Harrison |
| Evans, Jessica | 2011 | PhD | MgII Quasar Absorption Line Systems as a Probe of Galaxy Structural and Kinematic Evolution | Churchill |
| Hu, Linghong | 2008 | MS | Numerical Models of Galaxy Formation | Klypin |
| Strycker, Paul | 2011 | PhD | Studies of Jovian Atmospheric Structure and Coloring Agents using Hyperspectral Imaging | Chanover |
| Wu, Cat | 2014 | PhD | The Kinematics of Ionized Gas in Nearb | Walterbos |
| Sussman, Mike | 2011 | PhD | Modeling Seasonal Change on Uranus with the EPIC GCM | Chanover |
| Ruiter, Ashley | 2009 | PhD | White Dwarfs in Close Binaries: Gravitational Waves, X-rays, and Type Ia Supernova Progenitors | Belcynzski/Harrison |
| Hoffman, Doug | 2009 | PhD | Automated Variable Star Classification Using the Northern Sky Variability Survey | Harrison |
| Stockton, James | 2011 | PhD | Pamela: Results on Electron and Positron Spectra in Cosmic Rays | Stochaj |
| Campbell, Ryan | 2008 | PhD | Phase-Resolved Cyclotron Spectroscopy of Polar | Harrison |
| Ceverino, Daniel | 2008 | PhD | Numerical Models of the Formation of Galaxies in an Expanding Universe | Klypin |
| Giandoni, Sarah | 2005 | MS | Absorption Lines and Galaxies toward PKS 0312-77 | Churchill |
| Kacprzak, Glenn | 2008 | PhD | The Morphological, Kinematic, and Halo Gas Properties of MgII Absorption Selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift | Churchill |
| Norwood, Jim | 2010 | PhD | The Vertical Structure of the Uranian Atmosphere Near Equinox as Modeled with Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Observations | Chanover |
| Lawton, Brandon | 2008 | PhD | Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman-Alpha and Starburst Galaxies | Churchill |
| McGehee, Peregrine | 2005 | PhD | Anderson | |
| Bates, Sarah | 2005 | MS | New M31 Globular Clusters derived from the SDSS | Holtzman |
| Lim, Pey Lian | 2006 | MS | Hi-Res Spectroscopy of a Hipparcos Sample within 100 parsecs | Holtzman |
| Adams, Carla | 2004 | MS | Extremes of Galaxy Evolution: Tracing Star Formation in Local Spiral Galaxies | Vogt |
| Voges, Erica (Gerken) | 2006 | PhD | The Ionization Sources of the Diffuse Ionized Gas in Nearby Disk Galaxies | Walterbos |
| Kahre, Melinda | 2006 | PhD | The Martian Dust Cycle and the Evolution of Surface Dust Resevoirs | Murphy |
| Anderson, Carrie | 2006 | PhD | Aerosol Vertical Structure in Earth-Analog Atmospheres | Chanover |
| Blackmon, Mark | 2003 | MS | Seasonal Variations in Dust Flux in the Martian Polar Regions | Murphy |
| Kazantzidis, Stelios | 2000 | MS | Klypin | |
| Moorthy, Bhasker | 2006 | PhD | Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure, Kinematics, and Dynamics | Holtzman |
| Noriega, Hector | 2004 | MS | Population gradients in WLM | Holtzman |
| Bogue, Heather (Osborne) | 2003 | MS | Determining the Component Masses of Cataclysmic Variables | |
| Helmboldt, Joe | 2005 | PhD | Star Formation at the Extreme Ends of the Hubble Sequence | Walterbos |
| Nelli, Steven | 2006 | PhD | Sensitivities of a Coupled Dust and Water Cycle on Mars | Murphy |
| Temma, Takafumi | 2005 | PhD | Vertical Structure Modeling of Saturn with High-Spectral Resolution Imaging | Chanover |
| Vitvitska, Maya | 2003 | MS | The Origin of Angular Momentum in Dark Matter Halos | Klypin |
| Paust, Nathaniel | 2000 | MS | The Star Formation History of the Local Milky Way | Holtzman |
| Valenzuela, Octavio | 2003 | PhD | The Dynamics of Disk Galaxies as a Test for the Structure of Dark Matter Halos | Klypin |
| Zavala, Bob | 2003 | PhD | A View through Faraday's Fog: Parsec Scale Rotation Measures in AGN | McNamara |
| Gelino, Chris | 2002 | PhD | A Multi-Wavelength Search for Photometric Variability in L Dwarf | Marley |
| Gelino, Dawn (Leeber) | 2001 | PhD | Modeling Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations: Determining the Masses of Black Holes | Harrison |
| Peterson, Jason | 2003 | PhD | Characteristics of Radio Halos | Webber |
| Stephens, Denise | 2001 | PhD | 1 to 4 micron Photometry and the Near-Infrared Classification of L and T Dwarfs | Marley |
| Stephens, Tom | 2003 | PhD | Design and Operation of the Wide-Angle Air Cherenkov Telescope Array | Stochaj |
| Galarza, Vanessa | 1999 | MS | Spectrophotometry of HII Regions, Diffuse Ionized Gas, and Supernova Remnants in M31: The Transition from Photoionization to Shock Ionization | Walterbos |
| Geha, Marla | 1998 | MS | HST/WFPC2 Observations of Stellar Populations in the LMC Field | Holtzman |
| Kravtsov, Andrey | 2000 | PhD | High-Resolution Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe | Klypin |
| Miller, Neal | 2001 | PhD | A Radio Perspective on Galaxy Evolution in the Cluster Environmen | Anderson |
| Carlson, Matthew | 1999 | PhD | Young Globular Clusters in Interacting Galaxies | Holtzman |
| Oravetz, Audrey | 2015 | MS | The Fate of Ionizing Photons in Two Different Star Formation Complexes in the SMC | Walterbos |
| Oravetz, Dan | 2015 | MS | Searching for Metallicity Spread in Five Galactic Star Clusters | Holtzman |
| Shugart, Alysha APO | 2018 | MS | Holtzman | |
| Lubowich, Donald | 2006 | PhD | The Galactic Deuterium Distribution | Churchill |
| Hameed, Salman | 2001 | PhD | Massive Star Formation in Early-Type Spirals | Holtzman |
| Garasi, Christopher | 2001 | PhD | Magnetic Fields and the Cluster Cooling Flow Hypothesis | Holtzman |
| Rizza, Elizabeth | 2000 | PhD | The Environments of Rich, Intermediate Redshift Abell Clusters: A Multi-Wavelength Approach | Walterbos |
| Bliton, Mark | 2000 | PhD | The Environments of Poor Clusters of Galaxies | Anderson |
| Templeton, Matt | 2000 | PhD | An Observational and Theoretical Study of High-Amplitude Delta Scuti Stars | McNamara |
| Hoopes, Charles | 1999 | PhD | The Properties and Ionization Sources of Diffuse Ionized Gas in Spiral Galaxies | Walterbos |
| King, Nichole | 1999 | PhD | Luminous Blue Variables and Related High Mass Evolved Stars in M31 and Their Surprising Environments | Walterbos |
| Thilker, David | 1999 | PhD | Massive Stars and Expanding Shells within the Violent Interstellar Medium | Walterbos |
| Greenawalt, Bruce (now Greenway) | 1998 | PhD | Diffuse Ionized Gas in Nearby Spiral Galaxies | Walterbos |
| Simon, Amy | 1998 | PhD | The Time-Dependent Nature of Winds, Reflectivity and Weather Systems on Jupiter | Beebe |
| Gomez, Percy | 1998 | PhD | A Study of the Dynamics and Substructure of a Sample of Nearby Abell Clusters of Galaxies | Burns |
| Chanover, Nancy | 1997 | PhD | Temporal Variations in the Vertical Structure of Jupiter's Atmosphere | Beebe |
| Walter, Charles | 1996 | PhD | Properties of the Uranian Atmosphere as Revealed by Optical and Infrared Imaging | Marley |
| Marvel, Kevin | 1996 | PhD | The Circumstellar Environment of Evolved Stars as Revealed by Studies of | Burns |
| Roettiger, Kurt | 1995 | PhD | Numerical Simulations and the Observational Consequences of Merging Clusters of Galaxies | Burns |
| Lederer, Susan | 1995 | MS | Consequences of Albedo Feature Pseudoperiodicities for Jovian Seismolo | Marley |
| Huber, Lyle | 1995 | MS | Zonal (East-West) Winds and Cloud Morphology in Jupiter's Atmosphere | Beebe |
| Williams, Christina | 1995 | MS | McNamara | |
| Heikkila, Bryant | 1995 | MS | Far-Infrared and Radio Continuum Spatial Correlations in Ten Nearby Spiral Galaxies | Webber |
| Pinkney, Jason | 1995 | PhD | The Dynamics of Galaxy Clusters Containing Wide-Angle Tailed Radio Sources | Burns |
| Donahue, Robert | 1993 | PhD | Surface Differential Rotation in a Sample of Cool Dwarf Stars | Sanders |
| Baggett, Sylvia | 1993 | PhD | The Box/Peanut Phenomenon in Disk Galaxies | Anderson |
| Payne, Tamara | 1993 | PhD | A Multiwavelength Study of Solar Ellerman Bombs | Anderson |
| Dean, James | 1993 | MS | A Study of Box and Peanut Galaxies in the Infrared | Anderson |
| Kooiman, Brian | 1993 | MS | Two-Point Angular Correlation Function for the Green Bank 4.85 Ghz Radio Sky Survey | Burns |
| Kendall, Jason | 1993 | MS | The Effect of Time-Varying Density Fields on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: A New Formulation | Anderson |
| Sada, Pedro | 1993 | PhD | Temporal Variations in the Circumstellar Shell IRC+10216 | Beebe |
| Brown, David | 1992 | MS | An Investigation of the Radio and X-ray Properties of Southern Rich Clusters of Galaxies | Burns |
| Hale, Alan | 1992 | PhD | Orbital Coplanarity in Solar-Type Binary Systems: Implications for Planetary System Formation and D | McNamara |
| McDaid, Liam | 1991 | MS | A Chemical Analysis of the HR1614 Group: Is it a Supercluster? | McWilliam |
| Little, Tom | 1990 | PhD | Search for Regularities in the Atmosphere of Jupiter | Beebe |
| Kuehn, David | 1990 | PhD | A Study of the Temporal Behavior of the Vertical Structure of Jupiter's Atmosphere | Beebe |
| Barnett, Christopher | 1990 | PhD | Saturn's Seasonal Winds and Temperature: The Effect of the Ring System on the Troposphere and St | Beebe |
| Hockey, Thomas | 1988 | PhD | A Historical Interpretation of the Study of the Visible Cloud Morphology on the Planet Jupiter: 1610 - 1878 | Beebe |
| Baggett, Wayne | 1987 | PhD | A Study of Environmental Influences on the Structure of Spiral Galaxy Disks | Anderson |
| Dobson, Andrea | 1987 | PhD | Activity-Rotation Relations for Lower Main Sequence Stars | Beebe |
| Hakkila, Jon | 1986 | PhD | Statistical Properties of Barium Stars | McNamara |
| Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro | 1986 | PhD | The Initial Mass Function of Starburst Galaxies | Anderson |
| Olsen, Randy | 1985 | PhD | The Morphology of the Planetary Nebula NGC3242 | Reitmeyer |
| Lambert, John | 1985 | PhD | Occultation and Lightcurve Analysis: The Figure of 2 Pallas | Beebe |
| Christou, Julian | 1985 | PhD | Seeing Effects and Their Calibration for Astronomical Speckle Interferometry Observations | Anderson |
| Boice, Daniel | 1985 | PhD | The Neutral Sodium D2 Line in Late-Type Stars | Beebe |
| Guitar, Hunt | 1985 | PhD | Analysis of Motions of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and White Ovals | Beebe |
| Ryan, William | 1985 | MS | Considerations of the Effects of Quantum Gravity on Friedmann-Robertson-Walker-Type Universes | Anderson |
| Ryan, Eileen | 1985 | MS | Interstellar Extinction and the Assumption of Heterogeneous Dust Grains | Anderson |
| Suggs, Robert | 1985 | PhD | Temporal Albedo Variations in Saturn's Atmosphere | Beebe |
| Davis, Roger | 1983 | PhD | A High Dispersion Spectral Analysis of Three Pre-Main Sequence Stars | Beebe |
| Keady, John | 1982 | PhD | The Circumstellar Envelope of IRC+10216 | Beebe |
| Bruning, David | 1981 | PhD | The Applicability of the Fourier Convolution Theorem to the Analysis of Late-Type Stellar Spectra | Beebe |
| Drummond, Jack | 1980 | PhD | A Photometric Investigation of Possible Binary Occurrence in the Central Stars of Seventeen Planetary Nebula | Reitmeyer |
| Hill, Robert | 1979 | MS | An Investigation of the Blue Straggler Problem | Anderson |
| Horan, Stephen | 1979 | MS | A Survey of the Hyades for Delta Scuti Variables | McNamara |
| Solomon, Steven | 1979 | MS | The Development of an Automated PDS Photographic Photometry System and its Application to the Galactic Cluster M11 | McNamara |
| Tedesco, Edward | 1979 | PhD | A Photometric Investigation of the Colors, Shapes, and Spin Rates of Hirayama Family Asteroids | Beebe |
| Dawson, Dennis | 1977 | PhD | A Photoelectric Investigation of the Physical Nature of RV Tauri Variables | Anderson |
| Herzog, Adrian | 1977 | PhD | An Analysis of Numerical Integration Techniques for the Modeling of Open Galactic Clusters | Sanders |
| Schneeberger, Timothy | 1976 | PhD | Balmer Emission Lines in T Tauri-like Decelerating Flows | Beebe |
| Reitsema, Harold | 1977 | PhD | Quantitative Spectral Classification of Solar-type Stars and the Sun | Beebe |
| Hollars, Dennis | 1976 | PhD | An Observational and Theoretical Investigation of Calcium II H and K Emission in Yellow Supergiants and Classical Cepheids | Beebe |
| Pauls, Thomas | 1974 | PhD | Radio Observations of HII Regions in the Galactic Center | Reitmeyer |
| Smith, Brad | 1972 | PhD | Observations of Atmospheric Limb Darkening in the Visual Continuum and an Analysis of Multiple Scattering in the Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn | Beebe |