I am an astronomer specializing in solar system science. I founded the NASA Partner program Active Asteroids, a Citizen Science program designed to engage the public in the search for unusual asteroids that display comet-like tails. These special objects teach us about the solar system’s formation and distribution of materials prerequisite for life as we know it. I work with large astronomical image archives and leverage telescopic observations, astroinformatics, cluster computing, and AI as part of my research.
As a postdoctoral scholar at the DiRAC Institute and University of Washington in Seattle, I serve as a Project Scientist for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Network for Collaboration and Computing (LINCC) Frameworks team. I am also co-chair of the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC). I hold affiliate status at Northern Arizona University, where I earned my Ph.D. in Astronomy and Planetary Science. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Concentration in Astrophysics from San Francisco State University. My partner, Mark, is a breast cancer scientist at the University of California San Francisco.
I am reachable at coc123@uw.edu or on X (formerly Twitter) at @coc415. Find me on Google Scholar here.
