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. Keck 10-m Telescope
   

2. Magellan 6.5-m Telescopes
   

3. NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
   

4. Very Large Telescope
   

5. Anglo-Australian Telescope
   

6. Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
   

7. Gemini Observatory        
   

8. Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
   

9. McDonald Observatory
   

10. Discovery Channel Telescope

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 AstronomyX-

1. GALEX FUV/NUV
   

2. ROSAT
   

3. XMM-Newton
   

4. MOST