Education
A.A. History - Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster Campus, 2004
B.A. Physics, Math - Franklin & Marshall College, 2007
M.S. Physics - Dartmouth College, 2009
Ph.D. Physics - Dartmouth College, 2016
Skills
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Research Positions
Graduate Research Assistant
Summer 2008-Spring 2016
Dr. Jim LaBelle
Dartmouth College
Sounding rocket research in the auroral ionosphere centered on the NASA TRICE, ACES, and CHARM II missions. Rocket science instrument testing and calibration, data acquisition, data analysis, and development and testing (through numerical simulations) of theories of plasma wave generation and propagation. Support for ground-based operations involving various remote radio receiver stations, including analog-to-digital PC data acquisition system development and DSP-based software radio receiver development.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Summer 2006-Spring 2007
Dr. John K. Krebs
Franklin & Marshall College
Synthesis of alumina (Al2O3) solids and thin films using a Sol-Gel process. Design and implementation of—and research using—a system for laser-densifying alumina, towards evaluating its potential use to create channel waveguides.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Summer 2006-Spring 2007
Dr. Elizabeth Praton
Franklin & Marshall College
Analysis of universe large-scale structure simulation data with Fortran programs towards disproving a simple path-length-ratio method of quantifying the 'Bullseye' distortion effect in redshift-space maps. Research into new methods of quantification, including a simulated annealing approach to path drawing.
Teaching Experience
- Graduate Student Teaching Assistant (Lab TA), Dartmouth College, 2007-2015
- Undergraduate Physics Tutor, Franklin & Marshall College, 2006-2007
- Undergraduate Mathematics Tutor, Harrisburg Area Community College, 2002-2003
Publications & Presentations
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Grants/Fellowships
- NASA Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) Fellowship,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, with D. Rowland, 2010-2012 - Hackman Summer Research Fellowship,
Franklin & Marshall College, with J. K. Krebs, 2006 - Hackman Summer Research Fellowship,
Franklin & Marshall College, with E. Praton, 2005
Awards & Honors
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2007 — Academic Honor Society
- John Kershner Scholar in Mathematics, Franklin & Marshall College, 2007
- Frank Durrell Enck Memorial Prize in Physics, Franklin & Marshall College, 2007
- John Kershner Scholar in Physics and Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College, 2006
- Sigma Pi Sigma, 2007 — Physics Honor Society
- Pi Mu Epsilon, 2007 — Mathematics Honor Society
- Phi Theta Kappa, 2002 — International Honor Society of the Two-Year College