CCLDAS: Students

• Shannon Dickson

  

  Shannon is a fifth year undergraduate pursuing a major in engineering physics and a minor in astronomy. She is studying the properties of the photoelectron sheath created by photoemission from the lunar surface in areas where it is uniformly exposed to ultra-violet radiation from the sun. In the lab these conditions are simulated by a lunar dust simulant exposed to a high power UV light source with a peak emitted wavelength of 172nm.

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• Adrienne Dove

  

  Adrienne Dove is a fourth-year graduate student in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado. Her current research involves collaboration with Ball Aerospace to evaluate the effects of surface treatments on dust adhesion by using a centrifuge technique to measure adhesion forces in vacuum. She is also studying the impact of UV illumination of the motion of dust.

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• Nicole Duncan

  

  Nicole Duncan is a senior in Engineering Physics, working on the Dust Trajectory Sensor (DTS) project. She has been working for the Dusty Plasma Group since January 2007.

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• AJ Gemer

  

  AJ Gemer is a fourth-year undergraduate student of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado. He is currently working with Zoltan Sternovsky, Keith Drake, Nicole Duncan, and Jeremy Salter on the design of the next-generation Dust Trajectory Sensor (DTS). He has previous experience working with the same team on the Large Area Mass Analyzer (LAMA), and performs mechanical engineering design and fabrication on instrument projects for the CCLDAS.

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• Spencer LeBlanc

  

  Spencer LeBlanc is a junior physics major at CU-Boulder. He is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lived his whole life before attending CU. Spencer is designing and building both small and large accelerators in Dr. Munsat's lab. In his spare time, he enjoys fishing, reading, and plasma physics.

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• Paige Northway

  

  Paige Northway is in her junior year at the University of Colorado working on an Engineering Physics degree and German minor. She is currently developing a storage and transportation system for dust samples to be used with the LEIL Dust Particle Accelerator and will continue to be further involved with the dust injection system.

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• Andrew Poppe

  

  Andrew Poppe is a fourth-year graduate student in physics at the University of Colorado. He research includes simulation of the lunar photoelectron sheath with particle-in-cell code in order to understand observed lunar dusty plasma phenomena. In addition to his lunar simulations, he also works on the Student Dust Counter on the New Horizons mission, NASA's first satellite to the Pluto-Charon system. Outside of grad school, he enjoys road cycling, hiking and lots of reading.

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• Anthony Shu

  

  Anthony Shu is a first year graduate student in the physics department at the University of Colorado, with an emphasis on studying experimental plasma physics. He works with Tobin Munsat on the LEIL dust accelerator project. Currently he is designing the particle selection circuitry and the vacuum interlock circuitry, and he is building the high voltage controller for the small accelerator. He did his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley (2009), researching Laser Plasma Accelerators under Wim Leemans.

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• Evan Thomas

  

  Evan Thomas is pursuing a senior Engineering Physics major and a computer science minor. His current project is building and testing the electronics for the particle detector units in the dust particle accelerator.

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• Michael Wagner

  

  Michael is a senior in Engineering Physics working on the Dust Particle Accelerator. He is currently building and designing pulsing electronic circuits to control high voltage, as well as creating fiber optic control systems and voltage read-outs to be used with the high voltage.

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• Tyler Wingfield

  

  Tyler is a Junior pursuing a degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is designing and building the Particle Selection Unit for the LEIL Dust Accelerator. This unit will allow scientists at CCLDAS to select the mass and charge of the micrometeorites they accelerate. In his free time he likes to hike, climb, ski, backpack and everything else outdoors.

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• Jianfeng Xie

  

  Jianfeng Xie is a third-year graduate student in the physics department at the University of Colorado. He currently uses the Zemax to analyze the effect of ultraviolet light from the sun on detectors.

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