2010 REU Student Research Projects

The 2010 REU students on Mauna Kea.

Student	Home Institution	Mentor	Project
Marin Anderson	UC Berkeley	Beth Biller	Brown Dwarfs and Brown Dwarf Binaries in Young Star Forming Regions
Jonathan Breiner	University of Washington	Norbert Schörghofer	Using Martian Meteorites to Determine Water Chemistry on Mars
Joshua Fuchs	Rhodes College	Dave Rupke	Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Wind of M82
Brian Geiss	Butler University	Jeff Kuhn	Understanding Circumstellar Regions Through Optical Pumping Polarization
Shannon Hall	Whitman College	Dave Harrington	Deriving Telescope Properties from Sky Observations
Victoria Hartwick	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Gal Sarid	Modeling the interiors of Comets
Elizabeth Jayne		Rich Gazan	AIRFRAME and the Extreme Interdisciplinary"-ness" of Astrobiology
Hannah Kowen	Allegheny College	Josh Walawender	Optimizing VYSOS Operations
Melody Lindsay		Jacqueline Keane	Analyzing Ice Bands in Molecular Clouds
Thomas O'Conner	Rensselaer	Don Hall	Imaging Glow Sources In Detector Electronics
Thomas Rice	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Colin Aspin	Observing Young Variable Stars with WFCAM at UKIRT
David Schenck	University of Arizona	Josh Walawender & Bo Reipurth	Preparing VYSOS for Comet Observation
Iulia Simion		Ilia Roussev	To the Theory of Jet Formation in Accretion Disks
Laurie Urban	Northern Arizona University	Adam Kraus	A Search for Star Forming Regions in Northern Orion
Amanda White	Drexel University	Jeff Kuhn & Joe Ritter	The Search for Scattering Polarization of Molecular Hydrogen