Kelley M. Hess

Contact Info

Kelley M. Hess
Department of Astronomy
475 N. Charter St.
Madison, WI 53706

Office: 3409 Sterling
Phone: (608) 265-3436
Email: hess[at]astro.wisc.edu

About me

I am a fifth (eep!) year grad student, working with Dr. Eric Wilcots. I study galaxies and groups of galaxies, observing them at radio frequencies with telescopes like the Very Large Array, the Compact Array, Arecibo Observatory, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, etc. I also used to be a UW Physics Comology groupie. You can read more about my adventures in Astronomy on the Research page.

In the last three years I have become addicted cycling. I'm now a Category 2 rider at the amateur level, and an "A" rider on the UW collegiate club team. My bike's name is Green Flash--for at least three reasons, one of them science related.

I also run marathons.
"...not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
Next up: Chicago Marathon, 11 Oct 2009.

In my "free" time 2005-2006, I was the Graduate Assistant coach for the UW women's soccer team. In 2005 we won the Big 10 Conference for the first time since 1996, and competed in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Teaching

In the fall of 2006, I was a TA for Prof. John Hoessel with Astronomy 103

Undergraduate Advising

Summer 2007-2009 I had the pleasure of working with Melissa Jacquart on AGN heating of the IGM. We've done a little optical and a lot of radio observations and data reduction. She calls me "[her] grad student".