I joined the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado as a graduate student in the fall of 2015. I received my B.A. in physics from Middlebury College.
I am currently working with Steven Cranmer to study wave driven heating in the solar corona.
By simulating coronal loops with inverted temperature profiles, "down loops," Steven Cranmer and I are exploring the role that Alfvén waves and compressive waves, generated via wave mode conversion, could have in heating the quiet corona.
Steven Cranmer and I are exploring whether direct imaging of stellar coronal mass ejections would be possible, and distinguishable from planets, with a near-perfectly occulted stellar source.
Axel Brandenburg and I are using data from MDI and HMI to study whether spikes in the f-mode oscillations on the solar surface could be used for predicting active region formation a few days in advance.
Once upon an REU, I studied Pluto and other trans-Neptunian objects with Jay Pasachoff at Williams College. The light curves during occultations offer insight into the shape and atmospheres (or lack thereof) of the objects.