Kia Ora, Gidday - welcome to my lil' piece of the interweb. I am a Ph.D. student at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra. My work involves finding and characterising the youngest stars in the Sun's (and our) neighbourhood. For this task I am using the ANU's brand new SkyMapper telescope at Siding Springs Observatory in New South Wales.
I'm a proud New Zealander, having spent most of my life in Christchurch (go the Crusaders!). When I'm not busy working I can be found scooting around Canberra on my scooter, hamming it up at the Gym or struggling to learn the guitar/cook/dance/C/Japanese (take your pick).
January 2009: Second paper on the Virgo Stellar Stream available in the Astrophysical Journal.
May 2008: SEKBO Surveu paper published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Read all about it here or download the paper.
Header photo credits: Left: The greatest place in the world, the South Island of New Zealand. Christchurch is underneath the tuft of cloud to the North of Banks Peninsula. Middle: Open cluster M7 in Scoripus (from APOD). Right: M16, the Eagle Nebula from HST, where stars are being formed as you read this.
