Public Articles, News Releases, and Talks
Watch My Video Lectures
Next Generation Spectroscopy MagNIFIES our Knowledge of Planet Formation and Exoplanets -- A Carnegie Virtual Conversation (October 28, 2021)
Debris Disks as Planetary Signposts: The Observational Perspective -- Talk at the 2021 Sagan Workshop (July 20, 2021)
Come Not Between the Dragon and His Wrath -- A Tale of Small Stars and their Planets -- Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory Neighborhood Lecture (March 18, 2021)
Our Solar System and Others Not So Like It -- Capital Science Evening Lecture (September 29, 2005) at Carnegie Institution for Science on iTunes U
Read My Press Releases
Peek-a-boo disk shows "evidence of a previously unseen baby planet forming around young star" (2023)
Planetary Habitability "When It Comes To Planetary Habitability, It’s What’s Inside That Counts" (2019)
Proxima Cen's Stellar Flares "Proxima Centauri's no good, very bad day: Flare illuminates lack of a dust ring; puts habitability of Proxima b in question" (2018)
Astrometry of Brown Dwarfs, "When it comes to brown dwarfs, “how far?” is a key question" and "Could TRAPPIST-1’s seven Earth-like planets have gas giant siblings?"
Disks and Planets: Article for November 2008 Sky & Telescope Magazine
Exoplanet Formation Surprise: Carnegie Institution press release on TW Hya (June 13, 2013)
Organic Molecules in a Disk: CIW press release on HR 4796A (January 3, 2008)
Giant Collisions: Gemini Observatory press release on BD+20 307 (July 20, 2005)
Planet Building: News and Views in Nature (2005)
Using Hubble to Image Disks: Hubble views of HR 4796A and HD 141569 (1999)