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

⋄ 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