Astrobiology:

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

Current Research Activities

Extrasolar Planetary Systems & Circumstellar Disks:

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

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

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

  4. Bullet Gas emission from planetary atmospheres and debris disks.

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

Science Teams:

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

  2. Bullet MagIcS: Magnetic Investigation of various classes of Stars

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

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

X-ray and UV Space-based Astronomy:

  1. Bullet GALEX

  2. Bullet XMM-Newton

  3. Bullet MOST

E. Shkolnik

GALEX/NASA

K. Teramura / E. Shkolnik

P. Rawlings / NASA