Thesis Bibliography
A list of PhD dissertations referencing data collected at W.M. Keck Observatory.
263 update 11Apr13
1994
Dey, Arjun
The Origin of the UV Alignments in Low and High Redshift Radio Galaxies.
University of California, Berkeley
1994
1996
Martel, Andre R.
Spectropolarimetry of High-Polarization Seyfert I Galaxies
University of California, Santa Cruz
1996
Wirth, Gregory David
The Nature of Early-Type Galaxies at the Redshift Circa 0.5 Epoch
University of California, Santa Cruz
1996
1997
Burles, Scott Michael
Measurements of the Deuterium to Hydrogen Ratio in QSO Absorption Systems
University of California, San Diego
1997
Churchill, Christopher Will
The Low Ionization Gaseous Context in Intermediate Redshift Galaxies
HIRES
University of California, Santa Cruz
1997
Teplitz, Harry Isaac
A narrow-band near-IR search for H(alpha)-emitting galaxy clusters at z similar to 1
NIRC
University of California, Los Angeles
1997
Trager, Scott Charles
The Stellar Population Histories of Elliptical Galaxies
LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
1997
Zapatero Osorio, Maria Rosa
Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades: photometric and spectroscopic detection and
characterization
LRIS
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
1997
1998
Barth, Aaron Jordan
New Views of LINERs: Ultraviolet Properties and Optical Spectropolarimetry
University of California, Berkeley
1998
Clowe, Douglas Ian
Weak Lensing by High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies
LRIS
University of Hawaii
1998
Dave, Romeel S.
The Lyman Alpha Forest in Hierarchical Structure Formation Models
University of California, Santa Cruz
1998
Dekens, Frank Geeraard
Atmospheric Characterization for Adaptive Optics at the W. M. Keck and Hale Telescopes
University of California, Irvine
1998
Hogg, David Wardell
On the evolution of field galaxies
California Institute of Technology
1998
Ing, Kristine Mei Lan
Internal Kinematics of Distant Field Galaxies
NIRC
University of California, Santa Cruz
1998
Kelson, Daniel
The Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies in the Intermediate Redshift Cluster
CL1358+62
University of California, Santa Cruz
1998
Moustakas, Leonidas Alexander
Galaxy Evolution from Deep Optical and Near-Infrared Surveys
NIRC
University of California, Berkeley
1998
Ogle, Patrick Michael
Polarization and Structure of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects
California Institute of Technology
1998
Pahre, Michael Andrew
Elliptical Galaxies: Structure, Stellar Content, and Evolution
California Institute of Technology
1998
Prochaska, Jason Xavier
The Physical Properties of the Damped Lya Systems: A Keck HIRES Investigation
HIRES
University of California, San Diego
1998
Weinberger, Alycia J.
Speckle Imaging of the Nuclei of Six Seyfert Galaxies at Wavelengths of 2.2 Micron and 1.6
Micron
California Institute of Technology
1998
1999
Fassnacht, Christopher D.
Determining the distance scale with CLASS: Studies of two new gravitational lenses and a
measurement of the Hubble Constant
LRIS NIRC
California Institute of Technology
1999
Frye, Brenda Louise
A faint galaxy redshift survey behind massive clusters
University of California, Berkeley
1999
Johnson, Jennifer Anne
Abundances in Very Metal-Poor Stars
HIRES
University of California, Santa Cruz
1999
Kim, Tae-Sun
The Lyman-alpha forest at z > 2
HIRES
University of Hawaii
1999
Kirkman, David Albert
The physical properties of the redshift-three intergalactic medium from studies of QSO
absorption line systems
University of California, San Diego
1999
Monnier, John David
Infrared interferometry and spectroscopy of circumstellar envelopes
University of California, Berkeley
1999
Naoumov, Sergei Olegovich
Origins of the galactic thick disk: Two populations or one?
The University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1999
Schultz, Gregory Ronald
An infrared/optical imaging survey for brown dwarfs and very-low-mass stars in the
Pleiades
University of California, Los Angeles
1999
Stevens, Daniel Keith; [Stern, Daniel Keith]
Probing the dark ages: Observations of the high-redshift universe
University of California, Berkeley
1999
2000
Blanton, Elizabeth Lyon
Bent-double radio sources as tracers of clusters of galaxies
LRIS
Columbia University
2000
Canalizo, Gabriela
Age Dating of Interaction-Induced Starbursts in QSO host Galaxies and Companions
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2000
Chiang, Eugene
Circumstellar and circumplanetary disks
California Institute of Technology
2000
De Breuck, Carlos Albert Gilberte
Very Distant Radio Galaxies: Search Techniques and Emission Line Properties
LRIS NIRC
Leiden University
2000
Jayawardhana, Ray
Circumstellar dust: From protostars to planetary systems
Harvard University
2000
Kuchner, Marc Jason
Exozodiacal Dust
MIRLIN
California Institute of Technology
2000
Leonard, Douglas C.
The Geometry and Cosmological Utility of Core-Collapse Supernovae
LRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2000
Liu, Michael C.
Distances and Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies
AO
University of California, Berkeley
2000
Matheson, Thomas
The Spectral Characteristics of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
2000
Newman, Jeffrey Allen
Observational cosmology from z = 0.001 to z ~ 1
DEIMOS
University of California, Berkeley
2000
Patience, Jennifer Lynn
An investigation of binary star formation and evolution with surveys of three open clusters
University of California, Los Angeles
2000
Reitzel, David Brian
Metallicity, Kinematics and Structure of M31's Stellar Halo
University of California, Santa Cruz
2000
Stephens, Alex Courtney
Accretion in the galactic halo
University of Hawaii
2000
2001
Burgasser, Adam Jonathan
The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of
the T Spectral Class
LRIS NIRC
California Institute of Technology
2001
Flint, Kathleen
The Galaxy Luminosity Function in Nearby Poor Groups
ESI LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2001
McCarthy, Chris
An Infrared Coronagraphic Search For Substellar Companions to Young Nearby Stars
University of California, Los Angeles
2001
Mullis, Christopher Robinson
The ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole Survey
University of Hawaii
2001
Vernet, Joël
Etude spectropolarimétrique des premières phases de l'évolution des galaxies les plus
massives
Université Paris VII
2001
2002
Adelberger, Kurt Ludvig
Star formation and structure formation between redshifts one and four
California Institute of Technology
2002
Bloom, Joshua Simon
Toward An Understanding of The Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts
California Institute of Technology
2002
Chen, Christine Hsiao-Ching
Dust and gas around young stars
University of California, Los Angeles
2002
Gilbert, Andrea Margaret
Infrared spectroscopy of massive stellar clusters in starbursts
NIRSPEC
University of California, Berkeley
2002
Mao, Peter Hsih-Jen
Hard X-ray observations of the extragalactic sky: The high energy focusing telescope and
the serendipitous extragalactic X-ray source identification survey
California Institute of Technology
2002
Mendez, Bryan Jeffrey
The Enigmatic Local Hubble Flow: Probing the Nearby Peculiar Velocity Field with Consistent
Distances to Neighboring Galaxies
University of California, Berkeley
2002
Mohanty, Subhanjoy
Low-mass ultra-cool dwarfs: Atmospheres, rotation and magnetic activity
University of California, Berkeley
2002
Mooney, Colin Joseph
Photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy of B-type stars in the Galactic halo
Queen's University of Belfast
2002
Murphy, M. T.
Probing Variations In The Fundamental Constants With Quasar Absorption Lines
HIRES
University of New South Wales
2002
Przybilla, Norbert
Quantitative Spectroscopy of Supergiants
HIRES
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2002
Roe, Henry Garfitt
Titan's Atmosphere At High-Resolution
LWS
University of California, Berkeley
2002
Sheins, Andrew Ives
ESI And Spectroscopy Of QSO Host Galaxies
ESI LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2002
Stephens, Denise Catherine
1 to 4 micron photometry and the near infrared classification of L and T dwarfs
NIRC
New Mexico State University
2002
Tran, Kim-Vy Huu
Galaxy Populations In Rich Environments
LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2002
Williams, Kurtis Allen
White dwarfs in open clusters: The initial-final mass limit, the supernova mass limit, and the
white dwarf deficit
LRIS LRIS-B
University of California, Santa Cruz
2002
2003
Brandeker, Alexis
Young stars and circumstellar disks
AO
Stockholms Universitet
2003
Burger, Matthew Howard
Io’s Neutral Clouds: From the Atmosphere to the Plasma Torus
HIRES
University of Colorado at Boulder
2003
Colbert, James William, IV
Using infrared photometric redshifts and Keck multi-slit spectroscopy to uncover the hidden z
= 1.5--2.5 Bright Ages
LRIS-B
University of California, Los Angeles
2003
Geha, Marla
Internal dynamics, structure and formation of dwarf elliptical galaxies
ESI
University of California, Santa Cruz
2003
Glassman, Tiffany Michelle
Morphological evolution of distant galaxies from adaptive optics imaging
AO
University of California, Los Angeles
2003
Lane, Benjamin F.
High-precision infra-red stellar interferometry
AO
California Institute of Technology
2003
Metevier, Anne Julie
The Evolving Galaxy Population of Cluster Cl0024+1654
LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2003
Paulson, Diane Beverly
Searching for planets in the Hyades
HIRES
The University of Texas at Austin
2003
Price, Paul A.
What Makes a Gamma-Ray Burst
ESI LRIS
Australian National University
2003
Shapley, Alice Eve
Detailed astrophysical properties of Lyman break galaxies
California Institute of Technology
2003
Woillez, Julien
Very long baseline optical interferometry of Active Galactic Nuclei - ‘OHANA project
Observatoire de Paris - Université Paris XI
2003
2004
Berger, Edo
Cosmic explosions: the beasts and their lair
California Institute of Technology
2004
Bouchez, Antonin Henri
Seasonal trends in Titan's atmosphere: Haze, wind, and clouds
AO
California Institute of Technology
2004
Coil, Alison Laurel
The middle-aged universe: Results from high-z supernovae and the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift
Survey
University of California, Berkeley
2004
Constantin, Anca
Linking the power sources of emission-line galaxy nuclei from the highest to the lowest
redshifts
Ohio University
2004
Ding, Jie
Probing galaxies through Quasar absorption lines: Magnesium(II)-selected systems at 0.5
less than or equal to Z less than or equal to 1.5
HIRES
The Pennsylvania State University
2004
Farihi, Jay
An infrared search for substellar companions to nearby white dwarfs
University of California, Los Angeles
2004
Howell, Justin H.
Star formation histories of nearby elliptical galaxies
LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2004
Hunt, Matthew Philip
Faint optically selected AGN at z=3
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2004
Kalirai, Jasonjot Singh
Astrophysics with white dwarfs
The University of British Columbia
2004
Kaplan, David L.
The Diversity of Neutron Stars
LRIS ESI NIRC
California Institute of Technology
2004
Kessler-Silacci, Jacqueline
Gas and dust chemistry in planet-forming disks
LWS
California Institute of Technology
2004
Lipscy, Sarah Jane
Massive star evolution: The formation of massive stars in clusters and the evolution of the
atmospheres of supergiants
LWS
University of California, Los Angeles
2004
Lucatello, Sara
C-enhanced metal poor stars
HIRES
Universita di Padova
2004
Massey, Richard
Weighing the Universe with weak gravitational lensing
ESI
University of Cambridge
2004
Mastrapa, Rachel Michelle Elizabeth
Water ice and radiation in the solar system
The University of Arizona
2004
McCabe, Caer-Eve
On the road to planets: T Tauri disk evolution
University of California, Los Angeles
2004
O'Meara, John M.
Cosmology from the High Redshift Intergalactic Medium
ESI HIRES LRIS
University of California, San Diego
2004
Oguri, Masamune
Strong Gravitational Lenses in a Cold Dark Matter Universe
LRIS
The University of Tokyo
2004
Rhee, Joseph Hakjin
NIR and MIR spectroscopic study of the dust properties of Seyfert galaxies and the
implications on AGN unification
University of California, Los Angeles
2004
Rupke, David S.
Outflows in Infrared-Luminous Galaxies: Absorption-Line Spectroscopy of Starbursts and
AGN
University of Maryland
2004
Santos, Michael Robert
Galaxy formation near the epoch of reionization
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2004
Schwartz, Michael J.
A deep infrared photometric survey for Pleiades brown dwarfs toward the deuterium burning
limit
University of California, Los Angeles
2004
Simcoe, Robert Andrew
Observations of intergalactic heavy-element enrichment in the early universe
HIRES
California Institute of Technology
2004
Sohn, Sangmo Tony
Multi-color studies of old stellar populations
University of Virginia
2004
Steffen, Aaron T.
A wide-field Chandra survey of the Lockman Hole
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2004
Tanner, Angelle Maria
Extended sources in the central parsec of the Galactic Center
University of California, Los Angeles
2004
Thompson, Susan E.
Revelations from time series spectroscopy of pulsating white dwarf stars
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2004
2005
Bonev, Boncho P.
Towards a Chemical Taxonomy of Comets: Infrared Spectroscopic Methods for Quantitative
Measurements of Cometary Water
NIRSPEC
The University of Toledo
2005
Cooke, Jeffrey D.
The mass of damped Lyman alpha systems at high redshift: Cross-correlation with Lyman
break galaxies
University of California, San Diego
2005
Dahm, Scott E.
The evolution of young clusters
ESI HIRES
University of Hawai'i
2005
Dawson, Steven Arthur
Lyman alpha emitting galaxies at high redshift: Direct detection of young galaxies in a young
universe
DEIMOS LRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2005
Eisner, Joshua A.
High angular resolution studies of the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks
California Institute of Technology
2005
Jacoby, Bryan Anthony
Recycled pulsars
ESI
California Institute of Technology
2005
Kaisler, Denise
An adaptive optics search for extrasolar planets around nearby young stars
AO
University of California, Los Angeles
2005
McCrady, Nathan Todd
The super star cluster population of the M82 nuclear starburst
NIRSPEC
University of California, Berkeley
2005
McGovern, Mark Roland
A spectroscopic survey of young brown dwarfs in the near-infrared
NIRSPEC
University of California, Los Angeles
2005
Muterspaugh, Matthew Ward
Binary Star Systems and Extrasolar Planets
HIRES
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005
Rothberg, Barry S.
An infrared investigation into the formation of elliptical galaxies via mergers
ESI
University of Hawaii
2005
Schwartz, Colleen
Feedback in nearby dwarf starburst galaxies and giant extragalactic H II regions
University of California, Santa Barbara
2005
Siana, Brian
Optical-Infrared Selection of High Redshift QSOs and the z=3 QSO Luminosity Function
LRIS
University of California, San Diego
2005
Suzuki, Nao
Cosmology from quasar spectra
HIRES
University of California, San Diego
2005
Wahhaj, Zahed
Planetary signatures in circumstellar debris disks
University of Pennsylvania
2005
Whysong, David Harold.
Accretion modes and unified schemes for FR-II radio galaxies
LWS
University of California, Santa Barbara
2005
2006
Barrett, Elizabeth
The Assembly of Massive Galaxy Clusters: A Joint X-ray–Optical Study
LRIS
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2006
Becker, George
A High-Resolution study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium
ESI HIRES NIRSPEC
California Institute of Technology
2006
Bender, Chad Frederick
Dynamical Masses of Low Mass Spectroscopic Binary Stars
AO NIRSPEC
State University of New York at Stony Brook
2006
Bundy, Kevin
The mass assembly history of field galaxies
California Institute of Technology
2006
Covey, Kevin R.
Dynamical properties of embedded protostars and the luminosity function of the galactic
disk
NIRSPEC
University of Washington
2006
Erb, Dawn K.
Kinematics, Stellar Populations, and Metallicities
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2006
Giveon, Uriel
New catalogs of radio compact H II regions in the Milky Way
LWS
University of California, Davis
2006
Hicks, Erin Kathleen Strobel
Circumnuclear gas kinematics in Seyfert 1 galaxies and direct measurement of their black
hole masses
NIRSPEC
University of California, Los Angeles
2006
Leao, J. R. S.
Wolf-Rayet Populations in High-Metallicity Starburst Galaxies
LRIS-B
Space Telescope Science Institute
2006
Lin, Lihwai
The Role of Major Galaxy Interactions in Galaxy Evolution Since Redshift z ~ 1
DEIMOS
National Taiwan University
2006
Melbourne, Jason
Exploring the optical and infrared evolution of galaxies
AO
University of California, Santa Cruz
2006
Metchev, Stanimir A.
Brown dwarf companions to young solar analogs: An adaptive optics survey using Palomar
and Keck
AO
California Institute of Technology
2006
Perrin, Marshall Dimsey
A High Angular Resolution Survey of Circumstellar Dust around Herbig Ae/Be Stars
AO LWS NIRC2 OSIRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2006
Plavchan, Peter Paul, Jr.
M dwarf planetary systems
University of California, Los Angeles
2006
Reddy, Naveen A.
A Multi-Wavelength Census of Star Formation at z~2
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2006
Sand, David J.
On the distribution of dark matter in clusters of galaxies
California Institute of Technology
2006
Schuler, Simon C.
Chemical abundances of solar-type dwarfs in open clusters
Clemson University
2006
Wright, Jason Thomas
Stellar magnetic activity and the detection of exoplanets
University of California, Berkeley
2006
2007
Barczys, Matthew Michael
Innovations in adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy: OSIRIS, galaxy surveys, and
galaxy mergers
AO OSIRIS SHARC
University of California, Los Angeles
2007
Barkume, Kristina Marie
Surface properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs
NIRC
California Institute of Technology
2007
Berthoud, Marc George
CO Emission from the Inner Disk around Intermediate-Mass Stars
NIRSPEC
Cornell University
2007
Bubar, Eric Joseph
Keck HIRES spectroscopy of candidate post T Tauri stars
HIRES
Clemson University
2007
Cooper, Michael Caldwell
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey and the role of environment in galaxy formation and
evolution
DEIMOS
University of California, Berkeley
2007
Eckart, Megan E.
Measurements of X-ray Selected AGN and Novel Superconducting X-ray Detectors
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2007
Fitzgerald, Michael Patrick
Revealing planet formation: Technique, observation, and analysis
AO NIRC2
University of California, Berkeley
2007
Gerke, Brian Francis
Groups and clusters of galaxies in the DEEP2 survey: Significance for cosmic evolution
DEIMOS
University of California, Berkeley
2007
Hasegan, Ioana Monica
Faint stellar systems in the Virgo Cluster: The connection between dwarf galaxies and
globular clusters
ESI
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2007
Hornstein, Seth David
A search for and characterization of the infrared emission from our galaxy's supermassive
black hole
AO NGS
University of California, Los Angeles
2007
Hsieh, Henry H.
Comets amongst the asteroids: Icy bodies in the inner solar system
LRIS
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2007
Johnson, John Asher
Planet hunting in new stellar domains
University of California, Berkeley
2007
Kim, Joo Hyeon
Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Juptier and Saturn
Kyung Hee University
2007
Mandell, Avram M.
The effects of circumstellar gas on terrestrial planet formation: Theory and observation
NIRSPEC
The Pennsylvania State University
2007
McElwain, Michael William
High contrast spectral imaging of sub-stellar companions around nearby young stars
AO OSIRIS
University of California, Los Angeles
2007
McGrath, Elizabeth J.
Formation and evolution of massive galaxies and AGN in the early universe
AO
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2007
Poznanski, Dovi
Supernovae from Deep and Wide Surveys
DEIMOS LRIS
Tel Aviv University
2007
Sato, Taro
Feedback and environmental effect on star formation in galaxies
University of California, Santa Barbara
2007
Stalder, Brian Adam
Adaptive optics studies of high redshift radio galaxies
AO OSIRIS
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2007
Strader, Jay
Extragalactic globular cluster subpopulations and galaxy formation
LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2007
Yan, Renbin
Studies of Galaxy Evolution with Redshift Surveys
DEIMOS
University of California, Berkeley
2007
2008
Barry, Richard Keith, Jr.
Milliarcsecond resolution infrared observations of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi and low
mass stellar systems
AO IF
The Johns Hopkins University
2008
Bitner, Martin Allan, Jr.
High resolution spectroscopy of old stars and young disks
NIRSPEC
The University of Texas at Austin
2008
Brown, Joanna Margaret
Childhood to adolescence: dust and gas clearing in protoplanetary disks
NIRSPEC
California Institute of Technology
2008
Christopher, Micol Huw
Young, massive star clusters in the antennae
NIRSPEC LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2008
Devor, Jonathan
On the Development and Applications of Automated Searches for Eclipsing Binary Stars
NIRSPEC
Harvard University
2008
Fischer, William J.
One-Micron Spectroscopic Studies of Accretion and Outflow in T Tauri Stars
NIRSPEC
University of Massachusetts
2008
Foley, Ryan Joseph
Type Ia Supernova Evolution and Dark Energy
DEIMOS ESI LRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2008
Fu, Hai
Extended Emission-Line Regions: Remnants of Quasar Superwinds
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2008
Gilbert, Karoline M.
The global properties and substructure characteristics of Andromeda's stellar halo
University of California, Santa Cruz
2008
Hainline, Laura Jeannine
Multi-wavelength properties of submillimeter-selected galaxies
DEIMOS
California Institute of Technology
2008
Jorgenson, Regina Antonia
Physical conditions in Damped Lyman alpha Systems
University of California, San Diego
2008
Kacprzak, Glenn George
The morphological, kinematic, and halo gas properties of magnesium II absorption selected
galaxies at intermediate redshift
New Mexico State University
2008
Kakazu, Yuko K. M.
A wide-field survey for high-redshift quasars
DEIMOS
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2008
Konidaris, Nicholas Pelopidas, II
The Evolution of Emission Lines in Massive Early-Type Red Galaxies
DEIMOS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2008
Lai, David K.
Metal-poor stars: The fingerprints of the first stars and the early galaxy
ESI HIRES
University of California, Santa Cruz
2008
Lu, Jessica Ryan
Exploring the origins of the young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy with stellar
dynamics
AO
University of California, Los Angeles
2008
Moran, Sean M
Understanding the physical processes driving galaxy evolution in clusters : a case study of
two z~0.5 galaxy clusters
DEIMOS
California Institute of Technology
2008
O'Donovan, Francis Thomas
The detection and exploration of planets from the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey
HIRES
California Institute of Technology
2008
Schaller, Emily Lauren
I. Seasonal changes in Titan's cloud activity. II. Volatile ices on outer solar system objects
California Institute of Technology
2008
Seo, Hang Ja
Infrared Spectral Databases for Titan and Planets
Kyung Hee University
2008
Slesnick, Catherine Louise
1-10 Myr-old low mass stars and brown dwarfs in nearby star forming regions
HIRES
California Institute of Technology
2008
Smith, Erin Caitriona
Investigation of PAHs in planetary nebulae using FLITECAM
NIRSPEC
University of California, Los Angeles
2008
Suyu, Sherry H.
Dissecting the gravitational lens B1608+656 : implications for the Hubble constant.
California Institute of Technology
2008
Tannirkulam, Ajay-Kumar M.
A comprehensive study of proto-planetary disks around Herbig Ae stars using long-baseline
infrared interferometry
LWS
University of Michigan
2008
Urrutia, Tanya Caroline
Discovery and analysis of dust-reddened type 1 quasars - Finding the missing link in quasar
evolution
ESI
University of California, Davis
2008
Wright, Shelley Adams
A spatially resolved kinematic study of high redshift star forming galaxies: Development and
use of adaptive optics instrumentation
AO LGS OSIRIS
University of California, Los Angeles
2008
2009
Ammons, Stephen Mark
Towards advanced study of Active Galactic Nuclei with visible light adaptive optics
AO LGS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2009
Bayo, Amelia
The Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region
LRIS NIRSPEC
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
2009
Blake, Cullen H.
Ultracool dwarfs and their companions
NIRSPEC
Harvard University
2009
Cameron, Patrick Brian
The formation and evolution of neutron stars: astrometry, timing, and transients
California Institute of Technology
2009
Cenko, S. Bradley
The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2009
Chien, Li-Hsin
Star Formation History In Merging Galaxies
LRIS
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2009
Chornock, Ryan
Astrophysical Applications of Spectropolarimetry
LRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2009
Comerford, Julia Marie
Observational constraints on the assembly of galaxies and galaxy clusters
DEIMOS
University of California, Berkeley
2009
Gharanfoli, Soheila
Studying low-redshift universe through observation of Damped Lyman-alpha quasar
absorbers
AO LGS
University of South Carolina
2009
Harker, Justin J.
The star forming universe after z=1
University of California, Santa Cruz
2009
Henry, Alaina Louise
A NICMOS parallel survey for galaxies at z = 7--10
University of California, Los Angeles
2009
Kirby, Evan N.
Iron and alpha element distributions in Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies from medium-
resolution spectroscopy
DEIMOS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2009
Konopacky, Quinn Morgan
Dynamics and Multiplicity of Brown Dwarfs and Young, Low Mass Stars
AO NIRC2 NIRSPAO NIRC
University of California, Los Angeles
2009
Laver, Conor Murray
Io's surface, atmosphere and volcanism
AO OSIRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2009
Law, David Richard
The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
AO LGS OSIRIS
California Institute of Technology
2009
Melis, Carl Anthony, 1983-
The life, death, and composition of exoterrestrial planets around intermediate mass stars
AO NGS NIRC2 HIRES
University of California, Los Angeles
2009
Menendez-Delmestre, Karin
The Luminous, the Massive and the Dusty: a Near- to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of
Submillimeter Galaxies
AO NIRSPEC OSIRIS
California Institute of Technology
2009
Montgomery, Ryan Michael
Planet formation and searches
University of California, Santa Cruz
2009
Moskovitz, Nicholas A
Spectroscopic and theoretical constraints on the differentiation of planetesimals
ESI
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2009
Peek, Kathryn M. G.
Neutron-Capture Elements and Planetary Companions in the Solar Neighborhood
HIRES
University of California, Berkeley
2009
Pierce, Christina M.
Morphological and color characteristics of active galactic nucleus host galaxies at Z
[approximates to] 1
DEIMOS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2009
Ragozzine, Darin Alan
Orbital dynamics of Kuiper Belt object satellites, a Kuiper Belt family, and extra-solar planet
interiors
AO NIRC2
California Institute of Technology
2009
Rice, Emily Lucille
Physical Properties of Young Brown Dwarfs: High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of
Young M and L Dwarfs
NIRSPEC
University of California, Los Angeles
2009
Salyk, Colette Vanessa
Molecular spectroscopy of planet-forming regions in circumstellar disks
NIRSPEC
California Institute of Technology
2009
Stark, David P.
Observing Galaxy Formation During the First 2 Billion Years
AO LGS NIRSPEC OSIRIS
California Institute of Technology
2009
Tsai, Chao-Wei
Star cluster formation in the nuclear regions of nearby spiral galaxies
AO OSIRIS
University of California, Los Angeles
2009
2010
Bogosavljevic, Milan
Lyman continuum and Lyman alpha emission from galaxies at high redshift
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2010
Busch, Michael
Shapes and spins of near-earth asteroids
AO
California Institute of Technology
2010
Colucci, Janet E.
Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters using High Resolution,
Integrated Light Spectra.
HIRES
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2010
Deshpande, Rohit
Search For Gas Giants Around Late M Dwarfs
NIRSPEC
The University of Central Florida
2010
Do, Tuan
Physical Processes in the Vicinity of a Supermassive Black Hole
AO LGS NIRC2
University of California Los Angeles
2010
Dupuy, Trent
Testing Theory with Dynamical Masses and Orbits of Ultracool Binaries
AO LGS
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2010
Galametz, Audrey
The Environments of AGN out to z=2
Universite de Strasbourg
2010
Helminiak, Krzysztof
Derivation of fundamental parameters of late-type stars in binaries using precise photometry,
high-resolution spectroscopy, imaging with adaptive optics and optical interferometry
AO HIRES NIRC2
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
2010
Kiminki, Daniel C.
Massive binary stars as a probe of massive star formation
HIRES
University of Wyoming
2010
Kraus, Adam L.
Multiple Star Formation
AO LGS NGS NIRSPEC NIRC2
California Institute of Technology
2010
Levesque, Emily Moreau
Exploring the Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2010
Patel, Shannon
The Dependence of Galaxy Star Formation Histories on Environment at 0.6 < z < 0.9
DEIMOS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2010
Rubin, Kate H. R.
The kinematics and morphology of cool galactic winds and halo gas from galaxies at 0.3 < z
< 1.4
LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2010
Stark, Christopher
Decoding Images of Debris Disks
AO IF
University of Maryland
2010
Trouille, Laura Elizabeth
X-ray and Optical Spectral Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei
DEIMOS
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2010
Vegetti, Simona
Quantifying mass substructure in early-type galaxies
AO LGS NIRC2
The 'Kapteyn Institute' of Astronomy
2010
Willman, Mark
Space weathering on S-complex asteroids
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2010
2011
Barbary, Kyle
Type Ia supernova rates and the Type Ia progenitor
University of California, Berkeley
2011
Childress, Michael
Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae From the Nearby Supernova Factory
University of California, Berkeley
2011
Cooke, Ryan J.
Finding the First Metals
HIRES
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
2011
Foster, Caroline
The Assembly and Chemical Evolution of Nearby Early-type Galaxies
Swinburne University of Technology
2011
Howley, Kirsten M.
Dynamics of NGC 205 and M32, Andromeda's distorted inner satellites
DEIMOS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2011
Indriolo, Nicholas
Investigating the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in the Galactic Interstellar Medium Through
Observations of @@@H+3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2011
Kasliwal, Mansi M.
Bridging the gap : elusive explosions in the local universe
California Institute of Technology
2011
Klein, Beth L.
Bulk Compositions of Extrasolar Minor Planets Derived from Externally-Polluted White
Dwarfs
HIRES
University of California, Los Angeles
2011
Kruger, Andrew James
Infrared Spectroscopy and Young Stellar Objects: Characterizing the Dust and Gas in
Circumstellar Disks
NIRSPEC
University of California Davis
2011
Lemaux, Brian Clark
Galaxy Transformation Under Extreme Conditions: The Evolution of Galaxies in the Largest
Structures in the High Redshift Universe
DEIMOS LRIS NIRSPEC
University of California, Davis
2011
Morzinski, Katie M.
Adaptive optics for high-contrast imaging of faint substellar companions
AO
University of California, Santa Cruz
2011
Perley, Daniel A.
The Diverse Environments of Gamma-Ray Bursts
University of California, Berkeley
2011
Rafelski, Marc Alexander
Star Formation in Damped Lyman-alpha systems and the Outskirts of Lyman Break
Galaxies
LRIS ESI HIRES NIRC NIRC2
University of California, San Diego
2011
Silverman, Jeffrey M.
Spectral Observations and Analyses of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
2011
Stringer, Christopher Bayard
Chemical Tagging of Solar Neighborhood Kinematic Streams
HIRES
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2011
Tilvi, Vithal
The Luminosity Function of Lyman-alpha Emitters at the Reionization Epoch: Observations &
Theory
NIRSPEC
Arizona State University
2011
Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel
Analyse spectroscopique d’´etoiles naines blanches riches en hydrog`ene (DA): vers des
mod`eles d’atmosph`ere am´elior´es sans param`etres libres
HIRES
Universit´e de Montr´eal
2011
Walsh, Jonelle L.
Exploring AGNs in the Local Universe through High Angular Resolution Spectroscopy and
Optical Variability Monitoring
AO LGS OSIRIS
University of California, Irvine
2011
Whitmore, Jonathan
The Fine-Structure Constant and Wavelength Calibration
HIRES
University of California, San Diego
2011
2012
Bhalerao, Varun B.
Neutron stars and NuSTAR : A systematic survey of neutron star masses in high mass x-
ray binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe detectors for NuSTAR
LRIS
California Institute of Technology
2012
Crossfield, Ian James Mills
Infrared Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres
NIRSPEC
University of California, Los Angeles
2012
Fumagalli, Michele
Food for stars: the role of hydrogen in the formation and evolution of galaxies
ESI HIRES LRIS
University of California, Santa Cruz
2012
Ganeshalingam, Mohan
The Photometric Properties of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae
University of California, Berkeley
2012
Gonçalves, Thiago Signorini
Topics in galaxy evolution : early star formation and quenching
DEIMOS OSIRIS
California Institute of Technology
2012
Green, Andy
Kinematics of Star Formation in Evolving Galaxies
Swinburne
2012
Hiner, Kyle D.
Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
LRIS
University of California, Riverside
2012
Jones, T. A.
Detailed Properties of High Redshift Galaxies
DEIMOS OSIRIS
California Institute of Technology
2012
King , Julian Alexander
Searching for variations in the fine-structure constant and the proton-to-electron mass ratio
using quasar absorption lines
HIRES
University of New South Wales
2012
Kornei, Katherine Anne
Stellar Populations, Outflows, and Morphologies of High-Redshift Galaxies
LRIS
University of California, Los Angeles
2012
Leaman, Ryan
Constraints on environmental and secular effects on the chemodynamical evolution of dwarf
galaxies
DEIMOS
University of Victoria
2012
McConnell, Nicholas James
Black Hole Masses in Nearby Brightest Cluster Galaxies
AO LGS OSIRIS
University of California, Berkeley
2012
Miller, Sarah Holmes
The Assembly History of Disc Galaxies
DIEMOS LRIS
University of Oxford
2012
Rakic, Olivera
The intergalactic medium near high redshift galaxies
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
2012
Soto, Kurt T.
Gas Circulation in Major Mergers of Gas Rich Galaxies
ESI
University of California, Santa Barbara
2012
Tollerud, Erik Jon
Local Group Dwarf Galaxies in the LCDM Cosmology: Theory Meets Observations
University of California, Irvine
2012
U, Vivian
Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe: Global Properties, Nuclear Activity, and
the Starburst-AGN Connection
OSIRIS
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2012
Wisnioski, Emily Sarah
The Kinematic Properties of Clumpy Star-Forming Galaxies
LRIS OSIRIS
Swinburne University of Technology
2012
Wojtkowski, Kari Anne
The Characterization of Volatiles Associated with Young Stellar Objects
NIRSPEC
University of Missouri – St. Louis
2012
Yelda, Sylvanna
Constraining the Recent Star Formation History of the Galactic Center with High Precision
Astrometry
AO NIRC2 NIRC OSIRIS
University of California, Los Angeles
2012