Debra Meloy Elmegreen,
Professor of Astronomy
Dr. Elmegreen is the Maria Mitchell Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She has been a member of the faculty since 1985. Her research interests include star formation and the structure of spiral and interacting galaxies in the local universe and at high redshift. She observes in optical, near-infrared, and radio wavelengths.
Background:
A.B. cum laude 1975 (Astrophysics), Princeton University
A.M. 1977, Ph.D. 1979 (Astronomy), Harvard University
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Mt. Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories
(formerly Hale Observatories, now Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington)
Visiting Scientist, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1981-1990
How to reach me:
E-mail: elmegreen@vassar.edu
Phone:
845-437-7356
Fax: 845-437-5995
Office:
Sanders Physics 201
Research Notes:
My Hubble Space Telescope optical and Spitzer Space Telescope infrared
observations of the interacting galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 were selected as
the Space Telescope Science Institute Heritage Image of the Month for November
1999 and as the Astronomy Picture of the Day in 1999 and 2004 and as a press release
for the Spitzer site for 2006. Details are on the Space Telescope website, the
APOD website, and the SSC website:
IC2163/NGC2207 on HST
APOD
SSC
My research publications are listed here:
Publications
Galaxy book:
I wrote an undergraduate textbook,
"Galaxies and Galactic Structure," published by Prentice Hall in 1998.
