Versions of my CV:
.html Current as of Jan 2013
Goddard Space Flight Center
8800 Greenbelt Rd
Code 693
Greenbelt, MD 20771
erinleeryan (at) gmail (dot) com
Education
PhD in Astrophysics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2005-2011Degree awarded June 2011
Thesis title: The Asteroid Population As Derived from Spitzer Surveys Thesis advisor: Charles E. Woodward
Bachelor of Science in Astronomy, University of Arizona 1998-2002
with a minor in Physics
Honors and Awards
American Astronomical Society AwardsChambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, awarded 2009
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Spitzer Space Telescope Mission Operations Team (2004)
Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey Science Team (2005)
Spitzer Space Telescope General Observer Cycle 1 Time Allocation Process Team (2005)
Spitzer Space Telescope's Target of Opportunity Development Team (2006)
Scholarships
Minnesota Space Grant Summer Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2005
Glenn C. Purviance Scholarship in Physics (University of Arizona, awarded 1999)
Grants awarded as Science PI*
NASA ROSES Planetary Astronomy (Announcement NNH12ZDA001N-PAST)Outer Disk Material in the Inner Solar System: Correlating Colors and Albedos of Hilda Asteroids
PI: Keith Noll (GSFC)
Funding period and amount: 2012- 2015 , ~$300k
* (restrictions on the NASA Postdoctoral Program only allow Fellows to be Science PIs)
Grants awarded as Co-I
Spitzer Space Telescope Cycle 9 Exploration ScienceSpIES: The Spitzer-IRAC Equatorial Survey (800 hours awarded)
PI: Gordon Richards (Drexel)
Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 20
Search For Binaries Among Ultra--‐Slow Rotating Trojans, Hildas, and Outer Main Belt Asteroids (8 orbits awarded)
PI: Keith Noll (GSFC)
Research Experience
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, ORAU/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2012-presentSupervisor: Keith Noll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Research Assistant 2006-2012
Advisor: Charles Woodward, University of Minnesota 2nd year project and dissertation project for discovering new asteroids and describing the size-frequency distribution as a function of ecliptic latitude are based on Spitzer observations and data with optical telescopes including the LBT. Thesis project includes imaging and spectroscopy data for a study of the albedo distribution of small asteroids.
Principal Investigator, JPL Planetary Science Summer School 2009
Attended JPL Planetary Science Summer School in 2009. I served as Principal Investigator for the TRACER Trojan and Centaur Reconnaissance Flyby Mission which is described in a white paper for the 2009 Planetary Science Decadal survey. Studied mission management and development with JPL Team X and led the science team for mission concept.
Visiting Graduate Student/Scientific Research Assistant 2007-2008
Advisor: Sean Carey; Spitzer Science Center, Caltech
As a member of the MIPSGAL Legacy program, responsible for asteroid detection in survey data at 24 and 70 microns. Final products will include asteroid catalogs, submissions for newly discovered asteroids to the Minor Planet Center and papers describing the colors of detected asteroids and potential color selection techniques that can be used in MIPS data to exclude asteroids from point source catalogs of fields with only one epoch of observations.
Staff Scientist 2002-2005
Spitzer Science Center; California Institute of Technology
Served as the Helpdesk Operator and member of the Observer Support Team at the Spitzer Science Center. Activities required familiarity with Spitzer from observation planning by users, to data analysis with tools released by Spitzer as well as conventional astronomical packages. Additional knowledge and regular use of sql databases was required for observations scheduling and other tasks included writing and revamping existing users manuals. I also provided moving target support for scheduling and observational planning. Member of the Spitzer First Look Survey- Ecliptic Plane component which turned around optical and Spitzer data around in ~1 wk to characterize the potential contribution to source confusion by asteroids prior to public observation with the observatory.
Data Analyst 2001-2002
NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey; NOAO Tucson
Responsible for the reduction and calibration of K-band data obtained with the ONIS instrument at Kitt Peak. This data set represented ~160 nights of data for both data fields in the survey.
Research Assistant 1999-2002
Advisor: R. Mark Wagner; University of Arizona
Conducted investigations of low mass x-ray binary system with optical data obtained from Kitt Peak. Data analysis included obtaining light curves for mass determinations and spectroscopic studies for mass determinations and understanding of primary/secondary and accretion disk dynamics.
Teaching Experience
Laboratory Instructor 2005-2006Astronomy 1001 Lab; University of Minnesota
I taught the basic introductory lab course in astronomy for non-majors. Sections consisted of 24 students and emphasized group learning and cooperation. The labs utilized hands on experiments and advanced computer tutorials to aid in student learning of astrophysical concepts.
Professional Memberships
American Astronomical Society (Junior Member), Division of Planetary Sciences (Junior Member)
Computing skills
Programming and Computer Languages: Fortran 77/90, IDL, IRAF
Website, Database, Documentation and Presentation Development: HTML, LaTeX, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Apple Keynote, Apple Pages, SQL
Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS
Telescopes and Instrument Experience:
Telescopes used: Bok Telescope, McGraw-Hill Telescope, Hiltner Telescope, KPNO 2.1-m, Mayall Telescope, MMT,
Hale Telescope, LBT, Spitzer Space Telescope
Observational and data reduction experience:
Optical imaging (2K CCD, 90prime, MOSAIC, Palomar Large Format Camera, Large Binocular Camera), Optical Spectroscopy (Boller and Chivens Spectrograph @ Bok, MMT Red Channel, Hectospec), NIR imaging (PISCES, FLAMINGOS), Mid-IR imaging (IRAC, MIPS), Mid-IR spectroscopy (IRS)