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Hugh H. Crowl

Columbia University Department of Astronomy phone: 413.275.2260 Mail Code 5246 fax: 212.854.8121 550 West 120th Street [email protected] New York, NY 10027 USA http://www.astro.columbia.edu/∼hugh/

CURRENT Columbia Science Fellow, Columbia University POSITION

PREVIOUS Five College Astronomy Department Research & Education Postdoctoral Fellow, POSITION University of & , 2007-2010

EDUCATION Ph.D. Astronomy, Yale University, December 2006 Thesis: Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster: Gas Stripping and Stellar Population Evolution Adviser: Dr. Jeffrey D.P. Kenney M.Phil. Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2002 M.S. Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2001 B.A. Astronomy/Physics, , Middletown, CT, 2000 Graduated with Honors in Astronomy

HONORS AND Dirk Brouwer Prize in Astronomy (top Yale Ph.D. dissertation), 2006 AWARDS Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2000 - 2002 Littell Prize (top undergraduate major), Wesleyan University, 2000

TEACHING Instructor, Columbia University, Fall 2010 - present EXPERIENCE & ◦ “Frontiers of Science” seminars TRAINING Instructor, Hampshire College, Spring 2008 - Spring 2010 ◦ Astronomy 220: “Bringing Astronomy Down to Earth” Instructor, Central University of Tibetan Studies, January 2010 ◦ Selected to teach two classes on introductory Astronomy at a university in India as part of a January Term program. Participant, NASA CAE Workshop, Fall 2008 ◦ Workshop on improving introductory astronomy through active learning Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 2001-2007 ◦ Astronomy 160: “Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics” ◦ Astronomy 120: “Galaxies and the Universe” (Head Teaching Fellow) ◦ Astronomy 205: “Introduction to Astronomical Observing” ◦ Astronomy 130: “Life in the Universe” Teaching Fellow, Wesleyan University, 1999-2000 ◦ Physics 116: “General Physics II” ◦ Astronomy 107: “The Universe” STUDENTS Columbia University 2011-present ◦ Postbac Researcher: Diana Windemuth Supervising researcher working on radial population trends in Virgo spirals. University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2009-2010 ◦ Undergraduate Student: Bill Dague Supervised student project on a multi-wavelength study of a Virgo dwarf galaxy. Hampshire College, 2008-2010 ◦ Division 3 Student: Stephen Morton Co-supervised student project on metilicity of star forming regions. ◦ Division 3 Student: Gideon Bass Co-supervised student project on Hα luminosity function in nearby galaxies. Yale University, Summer/Fall 2005 ◦ Visiting Astronomy Student: Tomer Tal Co-supervised study on the stellar populations of star clusters in a Virgo cluster galaxy.

COMPUTER Programming: C,C++, FORTRAN, HTML, IDL, Perl, Python EXPERIENCE Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MS DOS, MS Windows, MacOS Software Packages: IRAF, TEX/LATEX, AIPS, GIPSY, Photoshop, Flash

RECENT “The Stellar Populations of Gas-Stripped Virgo Cluster Galaxies” Galaxy Wars, CONFERENCE Johnson City, TN, July 2009 POSTERS “Where in the Virgo Cluster are Galaxies Stripped?” Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, La Palma, Spain, December 2006 “Observations of Stripped Edge-on Virgo Cluster Galaxies,” Island Universes Conference, Terschelling, The Netherlands, July 2005 “VLA Observations of Stripped Edge-On Virgo Cluster Galaxies”, Galactic Flows: The Galaxy/IGM Ecosystem, March 2005 “Dense Cloud Ablation During Ram Pressure Stripping of the Virgo Spiral NGC 4402”, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Denver, CO, June 2004

SELECTED “Stripping in Unexpected Places”, GALEX Science Team Meeting, Columbia Uni- RECENT versity, November 2009 TALKS “Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster on Small, Medium, and Large Scales,” Colloquium, College of Charleston, March 2009 “The Effect of the Transformation of Spiral Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster on Broadband Color Evolution” 213th Meeting of the AAS, Long Beach, CA, January 2009 “Gas stripping and Its Effect on the Stellar Populations of Virgo Cluster Galaxies” The EVLA Vision: Galaxies Through Cosmic Time, December 2008 “Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster,” Colloquium, , Oc- tober 2007 “Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster,” Colloquium, University of Mas- sachusetts, Amherst, September 2007 “Stellar Populations of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster,” Colloquium, CDS, Stras- bourg, June 2006 GRANTS Deep GALEX Observations of Stripped Spiral Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, GALEX GO Program, PI, 2009, Cycle 5, $68,000 Ram Pressure Stripping and Dense Cloud Ablation in the Virgo Spiral NGC 4402, HST, GO Program, Co-I, 2005, Cycle 14, $77,000

ALLOCATED GALEX, Cycle 5 (2009), 66 ksec, PI OBSERVING Keck I, LRIS, 2009A, 2 nights, Co-PI TIME Gemini, GMOS, 2007A, 30 hours of “Band 4” time, PI HST, ACS, Cycle 14, 5 orbits, Co-I WIYN, 3.5m Telescope, 2003-2007, 30+ nights, PI

SCIENTIFIC WIYN High Throughput Slit Spectrograph INSTRUMENT Extensive testing, improvement, and commissioning of this new instrument EXPERIENCE for the WIYN 3.5m telescope and NOAO 2.1m telescope.

PROFESSIONAL Referee for journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010-present SERVICE Professional reviewer for GALEX time allocation committee, 2009

MEMBERSHIP OF American Astronomical Society PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

PUBLIC ◦ Open House Volunteer, Fall 2008 - present OUTREACH Volunteered at Public Observing at & Columbia University. ◦ Director of Public Observing Nights, Fall 2000 - Summer 2007 Coordinated and led observing nights for the public at Yale’s Student Obser- vatory. Also, arranged and led special events at the observatory. ◦ Project ASTRO Astronomer, Fall 2004 - Summer 2007 Partnered with local teachers to facilitate an Astronomy for 5th and 6th grade classes ◦ Starlab Program for Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Spring 2006 Partnered with a local teacher to run a planetarium program for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. ◦ Coordinator for Astronomy Department at New Haven Arts & Ideas Festival, Summer 2005 Coordinated and ran Solar observing and planetarium shows for a local arts festival ◦ Educator for Center for Talented Youth Day, November 2000, October 2006 Led educational workshops on the “Scale of the Solar System” and Planetar- ium Shows for talented school children. Hugh H. Crowl - Publications

Refereed Publications (Reverse Chronological Order)

7. “Caught in the Act: Strong, Active Ram Pressure Stripping in Virgo Cluster Spiral NGC 4330” Abram- son, A., Kenney, J.D.P., Crowl, H. H., Chung, A., van Gorkom, J.H., Vollmer, B., & Schiminovich, D., Astronomical Journal, submitted 6. “VIVA, VLA Imaging of Virgo Spirals in Atomic gas: I. The Atlas & the HI Properties” Chung, A. van Gorkom, J.H., Kenney, J.D.P., Crowl, H. H., & Vollmer, B. 2009, Astronomical Journal, 138, 6 5. “A Spectacular Hα Complex in Virgo: Evidence for a Collision Between M86 and NGC 4438 and Implications for Collisional ISM Heating of Ellipticals” Kenney, J. D. P., Tal, T., Crowl, H. H., Feldmeier, J., & Jacoby, G. H. 2008, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 687, L69 4. “The Stellar Populations of Stripped Spiral Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster” Crowl, H.H. & Kenney, J.D.P. 2008, Astronomical Journal, 136, 1623 3. “The Stellar Population of Stripped Cluster Spiral NGC 4522: A Local Analog to K+A Galaxies?” Crowl, H.H. & Kenney, J.D.P. 2006, Astrophysical Journal, 649, L75 2. “Dense Cloud Ablation and Ram Pressure Stripping of the Virgo Spiral NGC 4402,” Crowl, H.H., Kenney, J.D.P., van Gorkom, J.H., Vollmer, B., 2005, Astronomical Journal, 130, 65 1. “The Line-of-Sight Depth of Populous Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud,” Crowl, H.H., Sara- jedini, A., Piatti, A.E., Geisler, D., Bica, E.; Clari´a,& J.J.; Santos, J.F.C., Jr., 2001, Astronomical Journal, 122, 220

Non-Refereed Publications (Reverse Chronological Order)

13. “How Gas Stripping Transforms the Stellar Populations of Cluster Spiral Galaxies,” Crowl, H., Kenney, J. D. P., Chung, A., Blanton, M. & van Gorkom, J. 2009, Galaxy Wars, in press 12. “The Evolution of HI Disks in the Virgo Cluster,” Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., Crowl, H. H., Vollmer, B., & Schiminovich, D. 2008, ASP Conf. Ser.:Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks, 396, 127 11. “HI Stripping and Color Evolution of the VIVA Galaxies,” 2008, Chung, A., Crowl, H. H., van Gorkom, J. H., Schiminovich, D. & Kenney, J. D. P. 2008, AIPC, 1035, 195 10. “VIVA (VLA Imaging of Virgo in Atomic gas): H I Stripping in Virgo Galaxies, ” Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Crowl, H. H., Kenney, J. D. P. & Vollmer, B. 2007, ASPC, 395, 364 9. “Where in the Virgo Cluster are Galaxies Stripped? Stellar Population Evolution of Stripped Spiral Galaxies in Virgo,” Crowl, H. H. & Kenney, J. D. P. 2007, IAUS, 241, 501 8. “Observations of Stripped Edge-on Virgo Cluster Galaxies” Crowl, H. H., Kenney, J. D. P., van Gorkom, J. H., & Vollmer, B. 2005, Island Universes, Springer, 291 7. “Observations of Stripped Edge-on Virgo Cluster Galaxies” Crowl, H. H. 2006, Bulletin of the Amer- ican Astronomical Society, 37, 1406 6. “Imaging and Spectroscopy of Large Scale H-alpha Filaments in M86” Jacoby, G. H., Kenney, J. D. P., Tal, T., Crowl, H. H., Feldmeier, J. J. 2006, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 37, 1392 5. “Extra-planar Gas and Dust due to Ram Pressure Stripping of the Virgo Spiral NGC 4402,” Crowl, H. H., Kenney, J. D. P., van Gorkom, J. H., & Vollmer, B. 2005, ASP Conf. Ser. 331: Extra-Planar Gas, 331, 281 4. “Spiral Galaxy - ICM Interactions in the Virgo Cluster,” Kenney, J. D. P., Crowl, H., van Gorkom, J., & Vollmer, B. 2004, IAU Symposium, 217, 370 3. “Dense Cloud Ablation During Ram Pressure Stripping of the Virgo Spiral NGC 4402,” Crowl, H. H., Kenney, J. D. P., van Gorkom, J. H., & Vollmer, B. 2004, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 813

2. “Analysis of Metallicity and Age Variations of Populous Clusters with the Line-Of Depth in the Small Magellanic Cloud,” Crowl, H. H., Sarajedini, A., Piatti, A. E., Geisler, D., Bica, E., Clari´a,J. J., & Santos, J. F. C. 2002, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 14, 145

1. “The Three Dimensional Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud” Crowl, H. H., Sarajedini, A. 2000, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 32, 716

Papers in Preperation

3. “Death in the Green Valley: How Gas Stripping Transforms Spiral Galaxies in Virgo,” Crowl, H.H., Chung, A., Kenney, J.D.P., van Gorkom, J.H., in prep

2. “IC 3418: ‘Fireballs’ from a Virgo Cluster Galaxy,” Kenney, J.D.P. & Crowl, H.H., in prep

1. “A Comparison of HI Morphologies and Stellar Population Ages in Virgo Cluster Spiral Galaxies,” Crowl, H.H., Kenney, J.D.P., van Gorkom, J.H., in prep