Current Research Activities

Extrasolar Planetary Systems & Circumstellar Disks:

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

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

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

  4. BulletGas emission from planetary atmospheres and debris disks.

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

Science Teams:

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

  2. BulletMagIcS: Magnetic Investigation of various classes of Stars

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

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

X-ray and UV Space-based AstronomyX-

  1. BulletGALEX FUV/NUV

  2. BulletROSAT

  3. BulletXMM-Newton

  4. BulletMOST