maureen teyssier B.A. in Physics and Astrophysics University of California Berkeley maureent [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Research Positions

• Summer 2004:REU Program at NAU & Lowell Observatory

  Mirth and Mayhen in IDL!
  

  The Deep Ecliptic Survey is an on-going project to survey the near-ecliptic region of the outer solar system in search of Kuiper Belt objects. Data is gathered using the Mosaic cameras at the Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo Blanco 4-m telescopes.

  The NSF-funded summer project that I worked on incorporated two main components: Building software tools to insert false objects into the flattened, reduced images gathered as part of the DES, and participating in the incorporation of these tools into the data processing procedure for the July run at CTIO. Insertion of false objects (referred to as salting) is performed in order to accurately determine the detection efficiency of the survey procedures. Knowing this information allows a better model to be developed from known data. The nature of the data processing procedure is such that this information is necessarily determined through salting.

  CTIO	Steward Observatories
  The Fellowship

• Spring 2004: LBNL Center for X-Ray Optics

• Spring-Fall 2003:LBNL AFRD Department

Lab Classes

Fall 2003: Physics 111 Lab Basic Semiconductor Circuits -Final Project-

Fall 2002: Optical Astronomy Lab

Hiking

Oak Creek Canyon June 5, 2004	Bryce Canyon June 19-20, 2004	The Grand Canyon: From the North Rim June 25-27, 2004
Sedona July 4, 2004	Havasu Falls July 24-25, 2004	The Grand Canyon: The South Rim Sunset August 6, 2004
Sunset Crater and Indian Ruins July 2004	Mt. Tamalpais	To the Flatirons March 5, 2004
Up the back of Manoa Valley March 15, 2004	Diamond Head March 15, 2005	Rainbow Falls
Abbott's Lagoon May 22, 2005	Mauna Kea