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Class links
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Today at NASA
- Math Toolkit for Intro Astronomy
- ASTR 206 Pretty Pictures
My life history...in reverse
- I'm now an Associate Professor at Wellesley College. You can find me at the Whitin Observatory where things are Hot and Happening.
- I spent one year as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
- I used to be an astrophysics postdoc at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge,MA.
- Before that, I was a lowly grad student at Steward Observatory (University of Arizona), in sunny Tucson, AZ.
- I spent my undergraduate years at not-usually-sunny Cornell University, but the weather gods granted me many happy nights of observing with the Fuertes Observatory 12" refractor .
- And way back when, I got my start as a true blue Delawarean. There aren't too many of us, but I'm not the only one, you know!
Current work interests
- Quasar host galaxies far away--I have been using the Magellan I and Gemini North telescopes to image very distant quasars in the near-IR. Here is a 2009 ApJ paper describing what we've found so far.
- Disks and giant planets around young stars-- I am using the Hubble Space Telescope to search (see description of 11203) for disks and giant planets around young brown dwarfs in the Taurus star-forming region. We had already found one you can see in this 2007 ApJ paper. We have also searched for giant planets in the young Galactic open cluster IC348. You can read about it in this 2005 ApJ paper.
Here are things I enjoy when I'm NOT at work
- Spending time with my family in our house
- Picking with friends on the mandolin
- Listening to lots of music--especially bluegrass for example through the BBU, and folk on WUMB
- Admiring my brother Jeff's handiwork
- Biking to work
- And once upon a time, juggling
Start your day out right...
- Read some astrophysics preprints
- Be nosy and read some job rumors
- Snoop some other old links
- Check out the Boston 7-day forecast, satellite loop, radar loop, short-term forecast, current conditions, or climate data
- Check up on former research students (in rough chronological order) like Rob Simcoe Alice Shapley Carrie Ryan Sonya Rhee Erin Condy Alceste Bonanos Carie Cardamone Naomi Goldenson Frannie D'Arcanegelo Melissa Rice Emily Bowsher Rebecca Stoll Shelby Kimmel Talia Sepersky Amanda Zangari Erin Martell Allison Youngblood Jaclyn Payne Steven Mohammed Ijeoma Ekeh
Theresa Mall Mullarkey Associate Professor
Whitin Observatory, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481
(781)283-2709
kmcleod-(at)-wellesley.edu