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Current research projects include: using observations and theoretical studies of the Kuiper belt to understand the dynamical history of the outer solar system, coupling dynamical studies to observational studies to understand active Centaurs and their transition to the Jupiter family comet population, and exploring the orbital dynamics of the diverse planetary system architectures discovered by the Kepler mission and other exoplanet searches. I am a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) collaboration and the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration.

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Courses
  • TUHOD
    The Universe and Humanity: Origin and Destiny

Grants
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    Tools for Advanced Dynamical Characterization of Solar System Small Bodies

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $153.4K
    Active
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    Alien Earths: Which Nearby Planetary Systems Are Likely to Host Habitable Planets and Life?

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $2.8M
    Active
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    Constraining Neptune's Migration Using the Surface Properties of Resonant Trans-Neptunian Objects

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $555.5K
    Active
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    Dynamics of Sticky Resonances and Detached Kuiper Belt Objects

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $248.3K
    Active
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    Kuiper Belt Dynamics with a Distant Unseen Planet

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $339.6K
    Active
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    Distribution of Planet Masses, Planet-Planet Separations and Dynamical Lifetimes of Planetary Systems

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $320.9K
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    Dynamical Characterization of Solar System Small Bodies

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $20.0K
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    Current Dynamics of Neptune's Distant Mean Motion Resonances

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $70.7K
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    Current Dynamics of Neptune's Mean Motion Resonances

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $31.6K
News
  • Beyond Jupiter, Researchers Discovered a 'Cradle of Comets'

    2019

  • UA Scientists and the Curious Case of the Warped Kuiper Belt

    2017

  • More Evidence for Ninth Planet on Solar System's Fringes

    2016

Publications (77)
Recent
  • Col-OSSOS: The Two Types of Kuiper Belt Surfaces

    2023

  • The Hot Main Kuiper Belt Size Distribution from OSSOS

    2023

  • Orbital dynamics landscape near the most distant known trans-Neptunian objects

    2022

  • Col-OSSOS: The Distribution of Surface Classes in Neptune's Resonances

    2022

  • OSSOS. XXVI. On the Lack of Catastrophic Collisions in the Present Kuiper Belt

    2022

  • Dynamical Population of Comet Reservoirs

    2022

  • 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO↔ CO2 Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?

    2022

  • Col-OSSOS: Probing Ice Line/Color Transitions within the Kuiper Belt’s Progenitor Populations

    2022

  • Free Inclinations for Trans-Neptunian Objects in the Main Kuiper Belt

    2022

  • The Comet Highway

    2022

  • Close enough? How variations in the giant planets' final orbits in migration simulations affect predicted resonant transneptunian populations

    2022

  • The Transition from the Kuiper Belt to the Jupiter-Family (Comets)

    2022

  • OSSOS XXV: Large Populations and Scattering–Sticking in the Distant Trans-Neptunian Resonances

    2022

  • K2-138 g: Spitzer Spots a Sixth Planet for the Citizen Science System

    2021

  • OSSOS. XXI. Collision Probabilities in the Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt

    2021

  • OSSOS: The eccentricity and inclination distributions of the stable neptunian Trojans

    2021

  • OSSOS. XXIII. 2013 VZ70 and the Temporary Coorbitals of the Giant Planets

    2021

  • Dust Outburst Dynamics and Hazard Assessment for Close Spacecraft–Comet Encounters

    2021

  • Contemporaneous Multiwavelength and Precovery Observations of the Active Centaur P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS)

    2021

  • OSSOS Finds an Exponential Cutoff in the Size Distribution of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt

    2021

  • Transneptunian Space

    2021

  • Col-OSSOS: The Distinct Color Distribution of Single and Binary Cold Classical KBOs

    2021

  • Carbon Chain Depletion of 2I/Borisov

    2020

  • Active Primordial Bodies: Exploration of the primordial composition of ice-rich planetesimals and early-stage evolution in the outer solar system

    2020

  • Dynamical Instabilities in Systems of Multiple Short-period Planets Are Likely Driven by Secular Chaos: A Case Study of Kepler-102

    2020

  • Col-OSSOS: Compositional homogeneity of three Kuiper belt binaries

    2020

  • OSSOS. XVII. An upper limit on the number of distant planetary objects in the Solar System

    2020

  • Strength In Diversity: Small Bodies as the Most Important Objects in Planetary Sciences

    2020

  • Machine learning classification of Kuiper belt populations

    2020

  • A dearth of small members in the Haumea family revealed by OSSOS

    2020

  • P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS): An Active Centaur in Imminent Transition to the Jupiter Family

    2020

  • An Extremely Temporary Co-orbital: The Dynamical State of Active Centaur 2019 LD2

    2020

  • Cbet 4821: 20200802: Comet P/2019 LD2 (atlas)

    2020

  • OSSOS XX: The Meaning of Kuiper Belt Colors

    2020

  • Physical Characterization of the 2017 December Outburst of the Centaur 174P/Echeclus

    2019

  • Col-OSSOS: The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

    2019

  • OSSOS. XIX. Testing Early Solar System Dynamical Models Using OSSOS Centaur Detections

    2019

  • Language-Agnostic Optimization and Parallelization for Interpreted Languages

    2019

  • OSSOS. XVIII. Constraining Migration Models with the 2:1 Resonance Using the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

    2019

  • OSSOS-XI. No active centaurs in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

    2019

  • OSSOS. XIII. Fossilized Resonant Dropouts Tentatively Confirm Neptune’s Migration Was Grainy and Slow

    2019

  • OSSOS. XII. Variability Studies of 65 Trans-Neptunian Objects Using the Hyper Suprime-Cam

    2019

  • Not a Simple Relationship between Neptune’s Migration Speed and Kuiper Belt Inclination Excitation

    2019

  • Col-OSSOS: Color and Inclination Are Correlated throughout the Kuiper Belt

    2019

  • Not a simple relationship between Neptune's migration speed and Kuiper belt inclination excitation

    2019

  • A Software Roadmap for Solar System Science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

    2019

  • OSSOS. XIV. The Plane of the Kuiper Belt

    2019

  • 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1, A Centaur in the Gateway to the Jupiter-family Comets

    2019

  • OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release

    2018

  • Trans-Neptunian Objects Transiently Stuck in Neptune’s Mean-motion Resonances: Numerical Simulations of the Current Population

    2018

  • OSSOS. IX. Two Objects in Neptune's 9: 1 Resonance—Implications for Resonance Sticking in the Scattering Population

    2018

  • The Effects of Filter Choice on Outer Solar System Science with LSST

    2018

  • OSSOS XII: Variability studies of 65 Trans-Neptunian Objects using the Hyper Suprime-Cam

    2018

  • OSSOS. VIII. The Transition between Two Size Distribution Slopes in the Scattering Disk

    2018

  • Neptune's 5: 2 Resonance in the Kuiper Belt

    2018

  • A Northern Ecliptic Survey for Solar System Science

    2018

  • Handling Nested Parallelism and Extreme Load Imbalance in an Orbital Analysis Code

    2017

  • The curiously warped mean plane of the Kuiper Belt

    2017

  • OSSOS. VI. Striking Biases in the Detection of Large Semimajor Axis Trans-Neptunian Objects

    2017

  • OSSOS. V. Diffusion in the Orbit of a High-perihelion Distant Solar System Object

    2017

  • Col-OSSOS: z-band photometry reveals three distinct TNO surface types

    2017

  • OSSOS: V. Diffusion in the orbit of a high-perihelion distant Solar System object

    2017

  • All planetesimals born near the Kuiper belt formed as binaries

    2017

  • OSSOS. II. A SHARP TRANSITION IN THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF THE KUIPER BELT’S SCATTERING POPULATION

    2016

  • OSSOS III—RESONANT TRANS-NEPTUNIAN POPULATIONS: CONSTRAINTS FROM THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGINS SURVEY

    2016

  • CORRALLING A DISTANT PLANET WITH EXTREME RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

    2016

  • OSSOS. II. A Sharp Transition in the Absolute Magnitude Distribution of the Kuiper Belt's Scattering Population

    2016

  • OSSOS. IV. Discovery of a Dwarf Planet Candidate in the 9: 2 Resonance with Neptune

    2016

  • The Outer Solar System Origins Survey. I. Design and First-quarter Discoveries

    2016

  • Consolidating and Crushing Exoplanets: Did it happen here?

    2015

  • The 5:1 Neptune Resonance as Probed by CFEPS: Dynamics and Population

    2015

  • Do Centaurs preserve their source inclinations?

    2013

  • Dynamical Studies of the Kuiper Belt and the Centaurs

    2013

  • The effect of orbital evolution on the Haumea (2003 EL61) collisional family

    2012

  • Inclination Mixing in the Classical Kuiper Belt

    2011

  • The scattered disk as the source of the Jupiter family comets

    2008

  • Distribution and escape of molecular hydrogen in Titan's thermosphere and exosphere

    2008

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