Joseph Meiring - USC Department of Physics & Astronomy ...

Joseph Meiring
University of South Carolina
Department of Physics and Astronomy
712 Main St.
Columbia, SC 29208
(803)-777-0516
meiring@physics.sc.edu
2811 Bratton St.
Columbia, SC 29205
(843)-324-1496
Educational ⋄ University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Background Ph.D. in Astrophysics, expected graduation: Spring/Summer 2008
Advisor: Varsha P. Kulkarni
⋄ College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, Spring 2003
Awards and
Honors
⋄ Faculty Honors, The College of Charleston (Spring 2003)
⋄ Undergraduate Student Research Award, The College Of Charleston (Spring 2003)
Grants and ⋄ 2 time recipient of a NASA South Carolina Space Grant Fellowship (2006-2007 and
Fellowships 2007-2008)
Memberships
Skills
⋄ President of the Physics Graduate Student Association of USC (PGSA)
⋄ American Astronomical Society (AAS)
⋄ Society of Physics Students (SPS)
⋄ Programming Languages
IDL, IRAF,L A TEX, C++, Java, Linux/Unix Shells
⋄ Operating Systems
Linux (Red Hat, Fedora), Unix (Solaris), MS-Windows
Proficient in Linux systems administration
Research
Interests
Academic
Experience
(1) Galaxy formation and evolution; (2) Chemical abundances in high redshift galaxies;
(3) Quasar absorption lines; (4) Large scale structure; (5) Cosmology
⋄ Tutor, University of South Carolina (August 2003 – present)
Undergraduate physics and astronomy courses
⋄ Teaching Assistant, University of South Carolina (August 2003 – present)
Primary instructor for several different physics labs. Introduced students to the lab
exercises, graded lab reports, gave quizzes.
Physics 101 Lab: “How Things Work” (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
Physics 201 Lab: “General Physics I” (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2005)
Physics 212 Lab: “Calculus Based Physics I” (Fall 2003, Spring 2004)
Physics 284 Lab: “Honors Physics For Non-majors” (Spring 2004)
⋄ Research Assistant, University of South Carolina (Fall 2005 – present)
Currently building and testing a medium resolution spectrograph for the 16 in telescope
at USC’s Melton Observatory. Designed several custom components.

⋄ Research Assistant, University of South Carolina (Fall 2003 – present)
Observational cosmology, Quasar absorption lines, Galaxy formation and evolution
⋄ Teaching Assistant,College of Charleston (Fall 2001 – Fall 2002)
Guided students through labs. Setup and dismantled equipment
Physics 129 Lab: “Astronomy I Lab” (Fall 2001, Fall 2002)
Physics 130 Lab: “Astronomy II Lab” (Spring 2002)
Selected The Circumstellar Environments Of 62 Nearby A Stars, J. Meiring, J.E. Neff, K.P.
Publications Cheng, 2002, Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 34, 769
A Fabry-Perot Imaging Search for Lyman-α Emission in Quasar Absorbers at z 2.4,
V.P. Kulkarni, D.G. York, J.T. Lauroesch, S.M. Fall, P. Khare, B.E. Woodgate, P.
Palunas, J. Meiring, D.G. Thatte, D.E. Welty, & J.W. Truran, 2004 Bull. Am. Astron.
Soc., 205, 3803
The Evolution of Damped Lyα Absorbers: Metallicities and Star Formation Rates, V.P.
Kulkarni, D.G. York, J.T. Lauroesch, S.M. Fall, P. Khare, B.E. Woodgate, P. Palunas,
J. Meiring, D.G. Thatte, D.E. Welty, J.W. Truran Proceedings IAU Colloquium 199,
2005
A Super-solar Metallicity Intervening Quasar Absorber at z=0.7, V. P. Kulkarni, C.
Peroux, J. Meiring, R. Ferlet, P. Khare, J. T. Lauroesch, G. Vladilo, & D.G. York,
2005Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 203, 2
Elemental Abundance Measurements of Low Redshift Damped Lyman-α Galaxies , J.
Meiring, V.P. Kulkarni, P. Khare, J. Bechtold, J. Cui, D.G. York, J.T. Lauroesch, O.
Nakamura, & A.P.S Crotts, 2005 Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 120, 11
A Fabry-Perot Imaging Search for Lyman-α Emission in Quasar Absorbers at z ∼ 2.4,
V.P. Kulkarni, B. Woodgate, D.G. York, D.G. Thatte, J. Meiring, P. Palunas, & E.
Waassel, 2006, ApJ, 636, 30
The Most Metal-rich Intervening High-N(HI) Quasar Absorber Known, C. Peroux, V.
P. Kulkarni, J. Meiring, R. Ferlet, P. Khare, J. T.Lauroesch, 2006, A&A, 450, 53
Supernova 2006X in NGC 4321 Lauroesch, J. T., Crotts, A. P. S., J. Meiring, Kulkarni,
V. P., Meyer, D. M., Welty, D. E., York, D. G. 2006, CBET, 421, 1L
Elemental Abundance Measurements in Low-redshift Damped Lyman-α Absorbers, J.
Meiring, Kulkarni, V.P., Khare, P., York, D., Cui, J., Lauroesch, J.T., Crotts, A.P.S.,
& Nakamura, O., 2006, MNRAS, 370, 43
Metal-rich damped/subdamped Lyman-α quasar absorbers at z < 1, Peroux, C., J.
Meiring, Kulkarni, V. P., Ferlet, R., Khare, P., Lauroesch, J. T., Vladilo, G., York, D.
G., 2006, MNRAS, 372, 369
The nature of damped Lyman-α and sub-damped Lyman alpha absorbers, Khare, P.,
Kulkarni, V.P., Peroux, C., York, D.G., Lauroesch, J.T., J. Meiring, 2007, A&A, 464,
487 ( available at http://au.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608127)
The Role of Sub-damped Lyman-α Absorbers in the Cosmic Evolution of Metals, Kulkarni,
V. P., Khare, P., Peroux, C., York, D. G., Lauroesch, J. T., J. Meiring, 2007,
ApJ, 661, 88 (available at http://au.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608126)
New Abundance determinations in z < 1.5 QSO absorbers; 7 sub-DLAs and 1 DLA, J.
Meiring, Lauroesch, J. T., Kulkarni, V.P., Peroux, C., Khare, P.,York, D.G., Crotts,
MNRAS, 2007, 376, 557
The Chemical Compositions of 10 new sub-DLAs and strong Lyman-limit systems at z
< 1.5., J. Meiring, Kulkarni, V.P., Peroux, C., Khare, P.,York, D.G., Crotts, MNRAS,
2007, in press (arXiv:0801.0166)
Metal abundances at z < 1.5: the contribution of sub-Damped Lyman-α absorbers.,
Peroux, C., J. Meiring, Kulkarni, V.P., Khare, P., Lauroesch, J. T., Vladilo, G., York,
D.G., Crotts, MNRAS, submitted
References
Dr. Varsha Kulkarni, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of South
Carolina, Columbia S.C., 29208

Dr. James T. Lauroesch, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of
Louisville, Louisville Ky, 40292
Dr. Donald G. York, The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University
of Chicago, Chicago Il, 60637
Dr. James Neff, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The College of Charleston,
Charleston S.C., 29424