Student Mentoring

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Graduate Students:

Grace Olivier | PhD student in Astronomy | The Ohio State University

Advisor 2019-Present

• Advisor of PhD 2nd year project 

• Funded by Berg’s HST program 15465 grant 

• Presenter in 2019 Cloudy Workshop

• Principal advisor of student-led paper: Olivier, G.,Berg, D.A.,et al. 2019, in prep.

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Noah Rogers | PhD student in Astronomy | University of Minnesota

Co-advisor 2019-Present

• Co-advisor of PhD thesis

• Co-advisor of student-led paper: Rogers, N., Berg, D.A., et al. 2019, in prep.

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Undergraduate Students:     

Jacqueline Appel | Astronomy Major | The Ohio State University

 Advisor 2019-Present      

• Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURP) advisor

• Senior thesis co-advisor

• 2020 AAS research poster, submitted

• Berg, D.A., Appel, J., et al. 2019, in prep.

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Ness Mayker | Astronomy Major | The Ohio State University

Co-advisor 2018-present

• Current astronomy PhD student at The Ohio State University 

• Awarded 1st year graduate student fellowship 

• Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURP) co-advisor

• Undergraduate honors senior thesis co-advisor 

• Undergraduate honors senior thesis committee member

• Presented 2019 AAS research poster #260.08

• Presented poster at the 2019 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum

• Awarded 2nd place in Science: Statistics and Modeling Poster Competition

• Principal advisor of student-led paper: Mayker, N.E., Berg, D.A., et al. 2019, in prep.

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Mara Johnson-Groh | Astronomy Major | Gustavus Adolphus College

Advisor 2013-2014         

• Senior thesis advisor: Calibrating the CHAOS Line-Fitting Pipeline

• Co-author of Berg, D.A., Johnson-Groh, M., et al., 2015,ApJ, 806, 16  

• Received M.S. Astronomy from University of Victoria | advisor: Sara Ellison

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Shawn Dobberstein | University of Minnesota

Co-advisor 2009

• Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) co-advisor: 

        Identifying and Ranking HII Regions in M51

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Teaching Experience

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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:

• General Physics I (PHY-120) – combined calculus and non-calculus based introductory physics for non-physics majors (70+ students)

• General Physics II (PHY-170) – combined calculus and non-calculus based introductory physics for non-physics majors (70+ students)

• Mechanics (PHY-300) – differential-equations based mechanics for physics majors 

• Astrophysics (PHY-320) – project-based astronomy course for physics majors; developed archival and observing projects using departments 12” Celestron telescopes

• 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

• Survey of Astronomy (ASTRON-103; course lead: Dawn Erb)               

 

2012-2013 · University of Minnesota | Guest Lecturer

• Introduction to Astronomy (AST-1001; course lead: Evan Skillman)

          

2011 · Gustavus Adolphus College | Visiting Instructor

• 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

• Course lead for 3 sections per semester of Introduction to Astronomy lab

                                                   

2006-2008 · Gustavus Adolphus College | Teaching Assistant

• Tutor and grader for undergraduate physics and astronomy courses