Contact Information
The University of Minnesota
Address:
Dept. of Astronomy
116 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone:
612-626-1819
E-Mail:
kmcquinn@astro.umn.edu
Advisor
Evan Skillman
Background
I am a 5th year graduate student at the Univserity of Minnesota working on my thesis reasearch in starbursting dwarf galaxies. In my current research with Evan Skillman, I study stellar populations in dwarf galaxies using spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The detailed information from these images allows me to reconstruct the star formation history of these galaxies using stellar evolution models in order to measure how long the starbrust phenomenon lasts.
Previous Research
I have worked on 3 galaxy projects during my PhD including studying molecular gas in the Milky Way's Galactic Ring, variable stars in the nearby spiral galaxy, M333, asn well as the more recent research on starbursting dwarf galaxies.
The UV image of the Holmberg II galaxy shown above was downloaded from the GALEX website.