Jessica K. Donaldson

Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Oﬃce: (202) 478-8480 Carnegie Institution of Washington Fax: (202) 478-8821 5241 Broad Branch Road NW Email: jdonaldson at Washington, D.C. 20015 carnegiescience.edu

Research Observations of Circumstellar Disks at Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter wavelengths. Interests Modeling of disk images and spectral energy distributions.

Education University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Ph.D., Astronomy Jul 2014 • Research Topic: Observations and Modeling of Young Debris Disks • Advisor: Aki Roberge (NASA/GSFC) University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland M.S., Astronomy Dec 2011 • Research Topic: Herschel Observations and Modeling of Debris Disks • Advisor: Aki Roberge (NASA/GSFC) Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts B.A., Astronomy and Physics May 2009 • Summa Cum Laude • Minor: Mathematics

Academic Graduate Merit Fellowship, University of Maryland 2013 Honors Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland 2013 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland 2012 UMD Graduate Student Interaction Day - Second Place Presentation 2012 John Wang Award for Academic Excellence, University of Maryland 2011 University Fellowship, University of Maryland 2009 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland 2009 College Prize in Astronomy, Boston University 2009 Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University 2009 University Scholarship, Boston University 2005

Research Postdoctoral Associate 2014 – present Experience Carnegie Institution of Washington, DTM – Washington, DC

Research Assistant 2010 – 2014 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – Greenbelt, MD

Research Assistant 2007 – 2009 Boston University – Boston, Massachusetts

NASA Intern Summer 2009 Applied Physics Laboratory – Laurel, MD

Summer Intern Summer 2008 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – Student Internship Program – Greenbelt. MD

Astronomy Intern Summer 2007 Maria Mitchell Observatory – Nantucket, MA Professional Associate Team Member, Herschel Space Observatory Open Time Key Programme, Aﬃliations “Gas in Protoplantary Systems” (GASPS)

Technical Skills Observing Experience: • Summer 2007: Ten weeks observing with 24-inch optical telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory every night to monitor 10 blazars for optical variability. • Summer 2008: Two weeks on the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak taking observations of the Io Plasma Torus. Astronomical Software: Herschel: HIPE, HSPOT. Spitzer: MOPEX, Spitzer Her- itage Archive. Other: DS9, MaxImDL Other Software: Mathematica, LaTeX, Excel, Microsoft Word, OpenOﬃce, Operat- ing Systems (Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows 7) Programming Languages: IDL, IRAF, Python, Matlab, Java, HTML

Invited Talks Center for Astrophysics Radio Division Seminar Sep 2013 Cambridge, MA “Peering into terrestrial planet formation: new studies of young debris disks” Carnegie DTM Astronomy Seminar Jun 2012 Washington, DC “Herschel Observations and Modeling of Debris disks” STScI Star and Planet Formation Seminar May 2012 Baltimore, MD “Herschel Observations and Modeling of Debris disks” NASA Goddard Extrasolar Planets Seminar May 2011 Greenbelt, MD “Herschel PACS Observations and Modeling of the Tucana-Horologium Association”

Contributed The Universe Explored by Herschel Oct 2013 Talks Noordwijk, the Netherlands “Young Debris Disks in the GASPS Sample” 221st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Jan 2013 Long Beach, CA “HST STIS Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of the HD32297 Debris Disk” National Capital Area Disks Meeting Jul 2012 Baltimore, MD “Herschel Observations and Modeling of the HD32297 Debris Disk” 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Jan 2011 Seattle, WA “Herschel Photometry of the Tucana-Horologium Association”

Teaching University of Maryland, College Park Experience Teaching Assistant • ASTR 120: Introduction to Astronomy for Science Majors Fall 2009 • ASTR 320: Theoretical Astrophysics Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer • ASTR 695: Introduction to Research – Lecture on LaTeX Fall 2010

Public Outreach Astrobites Author (astrobites.com) Nov 2012 – Jun 2014 Speaker, University of Maryland Observatory Open House Jun 2012 Master of Ceremonies, University of Maryland Observatory Oct 2009 Volunteer at the National Federation of the Blind Youth STEM Academy Aug 2009 Service Refreee for The Astrophysical Journal and The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Publications 10) P. Riviere-Marichalar, D. Barrado, B. Montesinos, G. Duchene, H. Bouy, C. Pinte, F. Menard, J. K. Donaldson, C. Eiroa, A. V. Krivov, I. Kamp, I. Mendiguta, W. R. F. Dent, J. Lillo-Box Gas and dust in the beta Pictoris moving group as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, 2014, A&A, 565, A68. 9) D. B. Fisher, A. D. Bolatto, R. Herrara-Camus, B. T. Draine, J. K. Donaldson, F. Walter, K. M. Sandstrom, A. K. Leroy, J. Cannon, K. Gordon, Dust May Be More Rare Than Expected in Metal Poor Galaxies, 2014, Nature, 505, 186. 8) J. K. Donaldson, J. Lebreton, A. Roberge, J.-C. Augereau, A. V. Krivov Modeling the HD32297 Debris Disk with Far-IR Herschel Data, 2013, ApJ, 772, 17. 7) A. Roberge, I. Kamp, B. Montesinos, W. R. F. Dent, G. Meeus, J. K. Donaldson, et al. Herschel Observations of Gas and Dust in the Unusual 49 Ceti Circumstellar Disk, 2013, ApJ, 771, 69. 6) P. Riviere-Marichalar, C. Pinte, D. Barrado, W.-F. Thi, C. Eiroa, I. Kamp, B. Montesinos, J. K. Donaldson, + 10 co-authors, Gas and dust in the TW Hydrae association as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, 2013, A&A, 555, A67. 5) W. R. F. Dent, W. F. Thi, I. Kamp, . . . , J. K. Donaldson, + 50 co-authors, GASPS - a Herschel survey of gas and dust in Protoplanetary Disks: Summary and Initial Statistics, 2013, PASP, 125, 477. 4) J. K. Donaldson, A. Roberge, C. H. Chen, J.-C. Augereau, W. R. F. Dent, C. Eiroa, A. V. Krivov, G. S. Mathews, G. Meeus, F. Ménard,P. Riviere-Marichalar, G. Sandell, Herschel PACS Observations and Modeling of Debris Disks in the Tucana-Horologium Association, 2012, ApJ, 753, 147. 3) R. Herrera-Camus, D. B. Fisher, A. D. Bolatto, A. K. Leroy, F. Walter, K. D. Gordon, J. Roman-Duval, J. K. Donaldson, M. Meléndez,J. M. Cannon, Dust- to-Gas Ratio in the Extremely Metal Poor Galaxy I ZW 18, 2012, ApJ, 752, 112. 2) J. Lebreton, J.-C. Augereau, W.-F. Thi, A. Roberge, J. K. Donaldson, G. Schnei- der, S. T. Maddison, F. Ménard, P. Riviere-Marichalar, G. Mathews, I. Kamp, C. Pinte, W. R. F. Dent, D. Barrado, G. Duchene, J.-F. Gonzalez, G. Meeus, E. Pantin, J. P. Williams, P. Woitke, An icy Kuiper belt around the young solar-type star HD 181327, 2012, A&A, 539, A17. 1) J. K. Donaldson, T. J. Wellman, and W. L. Oliver (2010), Long-term change in thermospheric temperature above Saint Santin, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A11305.

Publications in 1) J. K. Donaldson, A. Roberge, A. Weinberger et al. Resolved HST STIS Spec- Preparation troscopy of the HD32297 Debris Disk

2) J. K. Donaldson, A. Roberge, et al. Young Debris Disks in the GASPS survey