Karen Jean Meech - Teaching

Below is a listing of the courses I've developed and taught since coming to UH in 1987.

Course	Semester	#	Description
Ast 734	F04 S05 S07		Astrobiology Seminar
Ast 399	S04	5	Introduction to Observational Astrophysics
Ast 281	S04 S07	12	Astrobiology
Ast 110	S88 S89 F91 S96	505	Survey of Astronomy
Ast 281	F89 F90 F91 F93 F96 F97 S99 S00 S01 S02	190	Space Exploration Syllabus S01 Textbook is being developed
Ast 140	S95	11	Foundations of Astronomy
Ast 630	S93	9	The Solar System (grad course) Texbook is being developed
Ast 699	All	13	Directed Research (graduate students)
Ast 734	S91	10	Graduate Comet Seminar
Ast 800	All	2	Graduate Dissertation Research
EDCI 582I	S93-95	120	TOPS Workshop
TECS 583P	S99-04	250	TOPS Workshop

In addition to the formal courses listed above, I have supported and worked with the following postdoctoral fellows:

Postdoc	Dates	Project	Background, Current
Olivier Hainaut	1994-7	Comet Recovery Distant Comets	Ph.D. - University of Liege, Belgium European Southern Observatory - NTT Team Leader
Mark Metzger	1994-5	CCD Wide Field Camera Project	Ph.D. - MIT Faculty, Caltech
Jana Pittichova	1999-	Comet Missions	Ph.D. - Univ. Bratislava, Slovakia
Yanga Fernandez	1999-2001	Comet Nuclei	Ph.D. - Univ. Maryland

Below is a list of Graduate Thesis students advised

Student	Dates	Thesis	Current
Tony Farnham	1991-6	Modelling Cometary Dust Tails with a Pseudo-Finson Probstein Technique	PDS Staff, Univ. Maryland
Charles Budney	1995-8	Compositions & Structure of the Lunar Maria (Cmte only)
Gerbs Bauer	1998-2003	Centaurs Surface Properties	JPL Fellow, Bonnie Buratti
Karl Hibbits	1999-2002	Surfaces of Icy Satellites (Cmte only)
Luke Dundon	2003-	Phaethon: Comet and Asteroid Transition Objects

Last modified: August 25, 2004
Karen Meech Institute for Astronomy 2680 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, HI 96822 meech@ifa.hawaii.edu