In the media
Astrobites
Quench your inner star formation
Does one galaxy’s star formation quench another’s? Find out in today’s astrobite.
Bright galaxies blowing bubbles
Today’s paper takes a clear view of bubbles blown by bright galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Gail Zasowski
We sit down with Professor Gail Zasowski, plenary speaker at #AAS240, to hear about new techniques to understand the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside!
Big, bright, bursty, AND early: what are the odds?
Just how rare is this hyperluminous heavily obscured active galactic nucleus in a dusty starburst in the early Universe?
Can you explain these long dark gaps in your cosmological resume?
Find out how dark gaps can help fill in gaps in our knowledge of reionization
Earth Week x Astrobites 2022: Introducing our speakers!
To kick off #EarthWeekxAstrobites2022 we introduce our speakers and how they integrate astro/physics and climate work in their careers!
A serving of X-rays in a stack of galaxies
Quiescent galaxy pancakes are filled with berry jam across cosmic time, and other lessons from galaxy stacking
Forecasting the obscured first few billion years
What will JWST reveal about the obscured early Universe? Today’s authors process simulations to find out
Rethinking the science conference format
How can we format science meetings to better serve all of us? Recent studies have a few recommendations
What do enormous, fabulous slugs have to do with giant galaxy formation?
Before giant galaxies, it was all slugs, mammoths, and big nebulous blobs of emission: find out why in today’s astrobite!
Catching High Energy Photons Leaking from Holey Galaxies
Today’s paper works to catch a leak with a new technique, using resolved Lyman-alpha line profiles to gain insight into the epoch of reionization
A Requiem for Dead Galaxies
Traces of magnified dust offer a requiem to early, dead galaxies that ran out of gas
Replacing our constellations with satellites
As satellite constellations crowd our night sky, today’s authors advocate for space as a globally shared resource rather than an entity to be owned and controlled
An Extreme, Distant Quasar in the Cosmic House of Mirrors
Step into the cosmic house of mirrors at this quasar party at dawn!
Blazing Hot DOGs at the Cosmic BBQ
Blazing Hot DOGs, in MY early Universe? It’s more likely than you think…Find out what happens at this particularly turbulent BBQ!
Gotta catch ’em all: the first neutron star-black hole merger detection!
Welcome to the family plot, NSBH! Learn more about LIGO’s two new additions to the stellar graveyard.
A Resolved Starburst Merger and an Unresolved Dust Problem
What’s going on behind the dust in starburst galaxy SHiZELS-14? Today’s authors use highly resolved data to find out!
Distant, Dusty Galaxy Hiding in the Dark
Today’s authors discover a distant galaxy cloaked in dusty darkness, and consider what it might reveal about galaxy evolution in the early Universe
Climate Literacy and Outreach
Solastalgia
Narrative I wrote about the feeling of solastalgia on a California road trip for Smith College magazine Emulate (see page 37!)
Teaching Change: The Importance of Climate Communication
Article I wrote for the SPS Observer on the importance of climate literacy across fields, and of my climate change education at Smith College
Comatose in Climate Catastrophe
Perspective I wrote on the psychological distance of climate change for The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook by David E. Newton (not open access)
Climate Literacy Research
Blog post I wrote translating my paper on climate literacy in adult education programs to a general audience
Climate Change Concentration
Local news article on a Smith program I was involved in, the Climate Change Concentration
Hilltowns Municipal Vulnerability Program
Article covering a project I did with a team of Smith students on human climate migration. We compiled and presented our research to four nearby Western Massachusetts hilltowns as they prepared for the statewide Municipal Vulnerability Program.
Astronomy
CUWiP 2020 at Yale
Yale news report on the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) 2020 at Yale
LIGO SURF 2019 Final Report
Reports and presentation for my LIGO SURF 2019 project, Observing and Modeling Ultracompact Binaries Detectable by LISA