The Vault
Papers, projects, presentations accumulated over my education and research.
Over the course of obtaining my BS and MS, I have accumulated many projects, papers, presentations, and various code. Here is where I archive those that I am proud of and would like to share with others.
Projects and Links:
- Astrophysics: Exoplanet Characterization using Python's Lightkurve Module
- Space Propulsion: Review of the Fission Fragment Rocket Engine and Example Mission Analysis to Saturn
- Applications of Modern Physics: Loop Quantum Gravity
- Orbital Mechanics: Satellite Orbit Propogation Accounting for Perturbations from the Presence of Earth's Second Zonal Harmonic
- Applied Orbital Mechanics (Graduate School): Numerically Propagating Satellite Orbit using Runge-Kutta 4th Integration Scheme (J2, J3, Atmospheric Drag Perturbing accelerations); Convert Position & Velocity Vector to and from Classical Orbital Elements; Monte Carlo Simulation
- Astrobiology: Short Essays and Presentations
- Is The Origin of Life Inevitable [Longer Essay; Probably the favorite one I wrote during this class] (2019)
- Life With a Different Chirality (2019)
- Exoplanets Presentation (2019)
- Energy for Life Presentation (2019)
- Mass Extinction Number 6 (2019)
- Airborne Life (2019)
- Age Dating Using Craters (2019)
- Limits of Life - Extremeophiles (2019)
- Preservation of Meteorites (2019)
- Minimum Size of a Cell (2019)
- Exploration of Ocean Moons (2019)
- Planetary Protection (2019)
- Snowball Earth (2019)
- Stromatolites (2019)
- The Structure of Life (2019)
- Life Without Photosynthesis (2019)
- Physics: Senior Lab (Recreating Some Historically Significant Experiments)
- Physics I: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Paper
- Public Speaking: Informative and Persuasive Speech Outlines