(Associate Director for Communications)
| Email: | amber.n.straughn@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.7098 |
| Org Code: | 660 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 660 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Dr. Amber Straughn joined the Laboratory for Observational Cosmology as a civil servant in March 2011, after spending 2.5 years at Goddard as the NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow for the James Webb Space Telescope. Her current research involves star formation in intermediate redshift galaxies (z~2) and galaxy morphologies. In addition to her research, Amber also serves as the Deputy Project Scientist for JWST Science Communications.
Galaxy formation and evolution; galaxy mergers and interactions; galaxy merger rate; physical processes induced by galaxy interactions, specifically star formation and black hole growth; emission-line galaxies; grism spectroscopy; dark energy and its effect on the galaxy merger rate; James Webb Space Telescope & supporting technologies; WFIRST
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
March 2011 - Present
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; ORAU - Greenbelt, MD
2008 - 2011
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ
2005 - 2008
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ
2002 - 2005
University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR
1998 - 2002
Ph.D., Physics, Arizona State University (2008)
M.S., Physics, Arizona State University (2005)
B.S., Physics, Magna Cum Laude, University of Arkansas (2002)
2023. "The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning.", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 135 (1046): 048001 [10.1088/1538-3873/acb293] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "[Insert Your Science Here] Week: Creating science-driven public awareness campaigns.", American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231, 231 360.05 [Other]
2013. "Low Masses and High Redshifts: The Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation.", ApJ, 776 27L [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey.", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 197 (2): 35 [10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/35] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey—The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products, and Mosaics.", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 197 (2): 36 [10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/36] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Extreme Emission-Line Galaxies in CANDELS: Broadband-Selected, Starbursting Dwarf Galaxies at z> 1.", The Astrophysical Journal, 742 (2): 111 [10.1088/0004-637x/742/2/111] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Spectroscopic Study of the HST/ACS PEARS Emission-line Galaxies.", Astronomical Journal, 141 (64): [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "HST WFC3 Early Release Science: Emission–Line Galaxies from Infrared Grism Observations.", Astronomical Journal, 141 (14): [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science Data: Panchromatic Faint Object Counts for 02-2 _m Wavelength.", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 193 27 [Full Text] [10.1088/0067-0049/193/2/27] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "The Morphology Of Passively Evolving Galaxies at z ∼ 2 from Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3 Deep Imaging in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.", ApJ Letters, 714 (1): L79-L83 [Full Text] [10.1088/2041-8205/714/1/L79] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Spectroscopic Confirmation of Faint Lyman Break Galaxies Near Redshift Five in The Hubble Ultra Deep Field.", The Astrophysical Journal, 697 (1): 942-949 [10.1088/0004-637x/697/1/942] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Tracing Galaxy Assembly: A Study of Merging & Emission-Line Galaxies with HST.", PASP, 121 (883): 1039 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Emission-Line Galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope Probing Evolution and Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS) Grism Survey. I. The South Fields.", The Astronomical Journal, 138 (4): 1022-1031 [Full Text] [10.1088/0004-6256/138/4/1022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Emission-Line Galaxies from the PEARS Hubble Ultra Deep Field: A 2-D Detection Method and First Results.", The Astronomical Journal, 135 (4): 1624-1635 [10.1088/0004-6256/135/4/1624] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Tracing Galaxy Assembly: Tadpole Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.", The Astrophysical Journal, 639 (2): 724-730 [10.1086/499576] [Journal Article/Letter]