I recently published a paper with Lisa Kewley and Kirsten Larson as part of my PhD thesis, detailing our new grids of stellar population synthesis and photoionization generated with the Starburst99 and Mappings codes.

These grids are now available to download through a new page on this website! Please visit the new Model Grids page to access the models. At the moment the grids are available to download in their entirety; eventually I’ll update the page with a more detailed interface where users can select the specific parameters that they would like to include in their work with the models

Where did the summer go?? The meeting in Australia was excellent, the observing run in Chile was unfortunately knocked out by high winds, and the rest of the summer has gone by in a flash!

This fall I’ll be attending the “Shocking Universe” meeting in Venice, Italy from September 14th-18th, which should be an excellent chance to hear all the latest news in the fast-moving GRB community! I’ll be giving a seminar at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland on October 9th, and a colloquium at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 23rd. Finally, I’ll be returning to the IfA at the University of Hawaii for the first few weeks of November; I have three observing nights on Keck to attend, and will be meeting with my thesis committee to discuss plans for the final semester of my thesis research in the spring!