Kristine Spekkens

Assistant Professor
Royal Military College of Canada

Research Interests

Structure/dynamics of spiral galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, dark matter, HI morphology of galaxies, single-dish HI surveys, starless halos, HI mass function, galaxy scaling relations, angular momentum in galaxies, indirect dark matter searches, disk-halo connection.

Ongoing and Recent Projects:

• RINGS: the RSS Imaging Spectroscopy Nearby Galaxies Survey
   
• Non-Circular Motions in Disk Galaxy Kinematics
   
• Breaking the Disk-Halo Degeneracy in Huchra's Lens
   
• Kinematics of Rapidly Rotating Spirals
   
• The Cusp/Core Problem in Low-Mass Galaxies
   
• Single-Dish HI Legacy Surveys with ALFA
   
• Interacting, Isolated Spirals and the Hunt for Dark Galaxies
   
• High-latitude HI in NGC 5433 and its Environment
   

CV + Publications

Links

Online Resources:

• ADS Custom Query Form
• Astro-ph
• NASA Extragalactic Database
• Skyview Virtual Observatory
• NRAO
• NOAO
• RMC Physics
• RMC Intranet
• Rutgers Astronomy
• Cornell Extragalactic Group
• Queen's Astronomy Research Group
• Astronomy Meetings
• Astrophysics Job Wiki

Software and Computing:

• RMC webmail
• Rutgers webmail
• Super Mongo
• AIPS
• J. Hibbard's HI cookbook
• GIPSY
• Wolfram Integrator
• IDL tips
• Numerical Recipes
• Ned Wright's CosmoCalc
• Fink
• OSX for Astrophysicists
• MacSingularity
• Scisoft OSX
• Jane Rigby's OSX for Astronomers Page

Telescopes, Journals, etc:

• VLA
• Arecibo Observatory
• ALFALFA
• NGC 2903 Survey
• SALT
• CARMA
• ARAA
• MNRAS
• ApJ
• AJ
• NSERC
• CASCA
• AAS

EPO:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Ask an Astronomer
• EYH - Cornell
• Sky and Telescope
• Nine Planets
• Canadian Astronomy Education
• Astronomy Education Review
• Physics and Astronomy Flash Demos
• Stellarium
• Hubble Discoveries
• Scientists in Education

Other:

• English Dictionary
• French Dictionary
• English/French Dictionary
• RMC Athletic Facilities
• Public Service Commission
• Cornell Wild Roses!
• Ithaca Area Ultimate Alliance
• Conrad's DDC page
• Give Free Mammograms
• HTML Goodies
• Kingston Weather
• Women in the Sciences