Astrobiology:

Chiral signatures of biotic molecules imbedded in water ice on Solar System bodies

Current Research Activities

Extrasolar Planetary Systems & Circumstellar Disks:

1. Star-planet interactions as a probe of planetary and stellar magnetospheres.
   

2. The search for and characterization of disks and planets around young M dwarfs.
   

3. Identifying the young M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood for planet & disk searches.
   

4. Gas emission from planetary atmospheres and debris disks.
   

5. Effects of high-energy stellar radiation on the formation and evolution of planets.

Optical and infrared spectroscopy & spectropolarimetry:

1. Las Campanas Observatory
   

2. Keck 10-m Telescope
   

3. NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
   

4. The Very Large Telescope
   

5. The Anglo-Australian Telescope
   

6. The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
   

7. The Gemini Observatory
   

8. The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
   

9. The McDonald Observatory

Science Teams:

1. Gemini-South Near-Infrared Coronographic Imager (NICI) Planet Search
   

2. MagIcS: Magnetic Investigation of various classes of Stars
   

3. Pan-STARRS: Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs, and Young Stellar Objects
   

4. SPIRou Development Team (a proposed NIR echelle spectropolarimeter for CFHT)

X-ray and UV Space-based Astronomy:

1. GALEX
   

2. XMM-Newton
   

3. MOST

E. Shkolnik

GALEX/NASA

K. Teramura / E. Shkolnik

P. Rawlings / NASA