⋄ Research Assistant, University <strong>of</strong> South Carolina (Fall 2003 – present) Observational cosmology, Quasar absorption lines, Galaxy formation and evolution ⋄ Teaching Assistant,College <strong>of</strong> Charleston (Fall 2001 – Fall 2002) Guided students through labs. Setup and dismantled equipment <strong>Physics</strong> 129 Lab: “<strong>Astronomy</strong> I Lab” (Fall 2001, Fall 2002) <strong>Physics</strong> 130 Lab: “<strong>Astronomy</strong> II Lab” (Spring 2002) Selected The Circumstellar Environments Of 62 Nearby A Stars, J. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, D.G. Thatte, D.E. Welty, & J.W. Truran, 2004 Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 205, 3803 The Evolution <strong>of</strong> 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, R. Ferlet, P. Khare, J. T. Lauroesch, G. Vladilo, & D.G. York, 2005Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 203, 2 Elemental Abundance Measurements <strong>of</strong> Low Redshift Damped Lyman-α Galaxies , J. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, Kulkarni, V. P., Ferlet, R., Khare, P., Lauroesch, J. T., Vladilo, G., York, D. G., 2006, MNRAS, 372, 369 The nature <strong>of</strong> damped Lyman-α and sub-damped Lyman alpha absorbers, Khare, P., Kulkarni, V.P., Peroux, C., York, D.G., Lauroesch, J.T., J. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 2007, A&A, 464, 487 ( available at http://au.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608127) The Role <strong>of</strong> Sub-damped Lyman-α Absorbers in the Cosmic Evolution <strong>of</strong> Metals, Kulkarni, V. P., Khare, P., Peroux, C., York, D. G., Lauroesch, J. T., J. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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. <strong>Meiring</strong>, Lauroesch, J. T., Kulkarni, V.P., Peroux, C., Khare, P.,York, D.G., Crotts, MNRAS, 2007, 376, 557 The Chemical Compositions <strong>of</strong> 10 new sub-DLAs and strong Lyman-limit systems at z < 1.5., J. <strong>Meiring</strong>, 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 <strong>of</strong> sub-Damped Lyman-α absorbers., Peroux, C., J. <strong>Meiring</strong>, Kulkarni, V.P., Khare, P., Lauroesch, J. T., Vladilo, G., York, D.G., Crotts, MNRAS, submitted References Dr. Varsha Kulkarni, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong> and <strong>Astronomy</strong>, The University <strong>of</strong> South Carolina, Columbia S.C., 29208
Dr. James T. Lauroesch, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong> and <strong>Astronomy</strong>, The University <strong>of</strong> Louisville, Louisville Ky, 40292 Dr. Donald G. York, The <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Astronomy</strong> and Astrophysics, The University <strong>of</strong> Chicago, Chicago Il, 60637 Dr. James Neff, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong> and <strong>Astronomy</strong>, The College <strong>of</strong> Charleston, Charleston S.C., 29424
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