Dr. Joseph Carson
Associate Professor
Office: 305 RHSC
Phone: (843) 953-3643
Email: carsonjc@cofc.edu
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You may click on some of the images below to see more information on individual research projects.
Current
Research Team
Blake Mino (NASA Palmetto Fellow, NASA USRF Fellow, Sigma Xi GIAR Recipient): Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Will Ceva (NASA Palmetto Fellow): Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Stanley McAfee: A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Dereck Morgado: Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Lucy Williamson (SURF Fellow): Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
David Melnick (NASA USRF Fellow, SURF Fellow, MAYS Fellow): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Rafael Hurtado (Sigma Xi GIAR Recipient): Exoplanet Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
Research
Team -- August 2018
Shown members, upper left to upper right: Elyana Crowder, David Melnick, me, Lucy Williamson, and Will Ceva. Shown members, lower left to lower right: Maxwell Rabe, Blake Mino, and Dereck Morgado. Other members, not shown: Aly Nida, and Rafael Hurtado.
Current Projects
Investigations into the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
I and collaborators carry out observational monitoring studies of young stars, and combine the resulting data with computational simulations, to better understand how short-term (like on the order of days or weeks) stellar activity can impact orbiting planets, including affecting factors important for habitability.
Medical Imaging Instrumentation
Borrowing many strategies from astronomical imaging, I lead the development of novel medical imaging instrumentation, such as the one shown in the left frame, to achieve low-cost, single snapshot 3D imaging, for helping prevent terminal cancers in underserved regions of the world.
Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets and Circumstellar Disks with Large Ground-Based Telescpes
I
work as a part of several observational surveys that use infrared
adaptive optics imaging, on telescopes such as the Subaru 8-meter in
Hawaii and VLT 8-meter in Chile, to search nearby stars for orbiting
extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks.
Planet
and Disk Imaging with the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes
I and collaborators use data from the Hubble Space Telescope and
Spitzer Space Telescope
to image extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks.
Past
Team Members
Elyana Crowder (SURF Fellow, MAYS Fellow): Investigating the Impact of Episodic Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Maxwell Rabe (SURF Fellow): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Lennart Langouche: A Fiber-Based Liquid Lens Endoscope
Jerson Huerfano: Exoplanet Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope
Vianny Estrada: Spectroscopic Monitoring of Young Stars with Circumstellar Disks, to Investigate the Impact of Stellar Activity on Planet Formation and Evolution
Wendell Roberson: Exoplanet Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
Adam Fletcher: Exoplanet Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope
Ariane McKiernan (HHMI Fellow): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Hannah Wilson (SURF Fellow, AYRA Recipient): A Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Clay Gardner: Imaging Exoplanets and Disks
with the Hubble Space Telescope
Jameson Sanders (HHMI Fellow): Imaging Exoplanets and Disks
with the Hubble Space Telescope
Laura Stevens (NASA
USRF Fellow): Exoplanet
Studies with
the
Subaru SEEDS Survey
Benjamin Wilson (Boeing Scholar, MAYS Fellow): Imaging Exoplanets and Disks with the
Hubble Space Telescope
Nathan Gunzenhauser: Exoplanet
Studies with
the
Subaru SEEDS Survey
Zachary
Griggs: Imaging
Exoplanets and Disks with the Hubble Space Telescope
Kellen
Lawson (MAYS Fellow, SURF Fellow): Exoplanet
Studies with the
Subaru SEEDS Survey
David McDaniel: A
Novel 3D Imaging Technique for Cancer Diagnoses
Brittany Yeager: Imaging Exoplanets and Disks
with the Hubble Space Telescope
Kara Perrino: The
Hubble Exoplanet Classroom
Kevin Gainey (Boeing Scholar): Brown
Dwarfs Around Radial Velocity Planet System
Thea Kozakis
(MAYS Fellow, SURF Fellow):
Searching for Exoplanets
and Disks with Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
David Ruwadi: The
Hubble Exoplanet Classroom
J. Alex Greene: Brown
Dwarfs Around Radial Velocity Planet Systems
Jesica Trucks:
Monte
Carlo Orbital Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
Andrei
Zorilescu: Lucky Imaging
with the College of Charleston Observatory
Palmer
Wong:
Exoplanet Studies with the Subaru SEEDS Survey
John
Bent:
Brown
Dwarfs Around
Radial Velocity Planet Systems
Carolin Schnupp: Brown
Dwarfs Around Radial Velocity Planet Systems
Michael
Blaschak: An
Adaptive Optics Survey of Sub-stellar Companions to TPF Candidate
Targets
Gregorio Villar: An
Adaptive Optics Survey of Sub-stellar Companions to TPF Candidate
Targets
Kyle Hiner: A
Distance-Limited Imaging Survey of Sub-Stellar Companions to Solar
Neighborhood Stars
Lilit Abramyan: Palomar
Hale Telescope Adaptive Optics Instrumentation
Jeffrey
Smith (JPlus Scholar): A
Monte Carlo Population Study of Wide Separation Brown Dwarf Companions
to Main Sequence Stars
Funding:
my
2018 research is funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and Pensievision Inc.
College
of Charleston, Department of Physics &
Astronomy,
58 Coming St., Charleston, SC 29424
webpage modified: August 2018
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