About

I am a third year graduate student at IfA Mānoa. I’m interested in large scale structure, galaxy mergers/interactions, and survey analysis.

I’m originally from outside Kansas City, Missouri, but I did my undergraduate degree at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. As an undergrad, I did an REU with Dr. Roy Gal of the IfA studying star formation in dense galaxy clusters around redshift z=1 using data from The Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) Survey. While at Rhodes, I also was a member of the football team and I threw javelin for the track and field team (Roll Lynx!).

Since coming to the IfA, I have worked a few few different things (including LYRA), but my current work is with the Charting Cluster Construction with VUDS and ORELSE (C3VO) Survey where I am studying the role of galaxy mergers and interactions within large scale structure from 2 < z < 5.

Outside of academia, I enjoy movies, going to the beach, Boulevard Wheat, and Symere Woods. L&R

Research

Ph.D. Topic

Topic: Characterizing High-redshift Interactions within the Environments of the First Structures (CHIEFS)

Committee: Dave Sanders, Roy Gal(Chair), Brian Lemaux (Gemini), David Jones, Kimberly Binsted

Teaching

TA; ASTR 110L: Survey of Astronomy Laboratory (Fall 2022)
TA; ASTR 130: Intro to Archaeoastronomy (Fall 2022)
Co-Instructor; ASTR 110L: Survey of Astronomy Laboratory (Spring 2023)
Instructor; ASTR 110L: Survey of Astronomy Laboratory (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
TA; ASTR 300L: Observational Asronomy Laboratory (Fall 2024)
TA; ASTR 426: Galaxies & Cosmology (Fall 2024)