Student Mentoring
Graduate Students:
Grace Olivier | PhD student in Astronomy | The Ohio State University
Advisor 2019-Present
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Advisor of PhD 2nd year project
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Funded by Berg’s HST program 15465 grant
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Presenter in 2019 Cloudy Workshop
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Principal advisor of student-led paper: Olivier, G.,Berg, D.A.,et al. 2019, in prep.
Noah Rogers | PhD student in Astronomy | University of Minnesota
Co-advisor 2019-Present
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Co-advisor of PhD thesis
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Co-advisor of student-led paper: Rogers, N., Berg, D.A., et al. 2019, in prep.
Undergraduate Students:
Jacqueline Appel | Astronomy Major | The Ohio State University
Advisor 2019-Present
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURP) advisor
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Senior thesis co-advisor
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2020 AAS research poster, submitted
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Berg, D.A., Appel, J., et al. 2019, in prep.
Ness Mayker | Astronomy Major | The Ohio State University
Co-advisor 2018-present
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Current astronomy PhD student at The Ohio State University
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Awarded 1st year graduate student fellowship
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Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURP) co-advisor
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Undergraduate honors senior thesis co-advisor
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Undergraduate honors senior thesis committee member
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Presented 2019 AAS research poster #260.08
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Presented poster at the 2019 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
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Awarded 2nd place in Science: Statistics and Modeling Poster Competition
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Principal advisor of student-led paper: Mayker, N.E., Berg, D.A., et al. 2019, in prep.
Mara Johnson-Groh | Astronomy Major | Gustavus Adolphus College
Advisor 2013-2014
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Senior thesis advisor: Calibrating the CHAOS Line-Fitting Pipeline
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Co-author of Berg, D.A., Johnson-Groh, M., et al., 2015,ApJ, 806, 16
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Received M.S. Astronomy from University of Victoria | advisor: Sara Ellison
Shawn Dobberstein | University of Minnesota
Co-advisor 2009
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Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) co-advisor:
Identifying and Ranking HII Regions in M51
Teaching Experience
2013-2014 · Gustavus Adolphus College | Visiting Physics Faculty
Gustavus Adolphus College is a small liberal arts college heavily focused on teaching and student mentoring. Responsibilities included teaching 12-14 lecture hours/week, developing a science critical thinking course, developing an astronomy project course for majors, and student mentoring, including advising a senior research project. Courses taught:
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General Physics I (PHY-120) – combined calculus and non-calculus based introductory physics for non-physics majors (70+ students)
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General Physics II (PHY-170) – combined calculus and non-calculus based introductory physics for non-physics majors (70+ students)
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Mechanics (PHY-300) – differential-equations based mechanics for physics majors
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Astrophysics (PHY-320) – project-based astronomy course for physics majors; developed archival and observing projects using departments 12” Celestron telescopes
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Adventures in Pseudoscience and Skepticism (NDL-107) – designed, from scratch, an evidence-based critical-thinking January term course with 3 hours of lecture/day
2014 · University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | Guest Lecturer
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Survey of Astronomy (ASTRON-103; course lead: Dawn Erb)
2012-2013 · University of Minnesota | Guest Lecturer
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Introduction to Astronomy (AST-1001; course lead: Evan Skillman)
2011 · Gustavus Adolphus College | Visiting Instructor
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Astronomy of the Southern Skies – traveling January term course to Australia and New Zealand including daily lectures, observing labs, and guided observing at Mt John Observatory, New Zealand and the Parkes Radio Telescope, Australia
2008-2009 · University of Minnesota | Lab Instructor
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Course lead for 3 sections per semester of Introduction to Astronomy lab
2006-2008 · Gustavus Adolphus College | Teaching Assistant
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Tutor and grader for undergraduate physics and astronomy courses