Karen Pollard
Position
Senior Lecturer
Director of The University of Canterbury
Mt John Observatory
Qualifications
Ph.D. ( University of Canterbury)
Room
812, Physics and Astronomy
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364-2987
Internal Phone: 7545
Email: karen.pollard@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch, 8140
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
- PHYS102 Semester Two Engineering Physics B: Electromagnetism, Modern Physics and "How Things Work"
- ASTR112 - Astrophysics
Postgraduate Supervision
- Emily Brunsden: The music of the stars
- Florian Maisonneuve: Probing the interior of stars (submitted 2011)
- Mita Brierley: CNO Abundances in Omega Centauri (submitted 2010)
- Robyn Woolands: R Coronae Borealis Stars in the Magellanic Clouds (submitted)
Research Interests
- UC Reserach Profile
- Discovering New Planets
- PLANET: Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork
- The evolutionary status of RV Tauri variables
- An investigation of post-AGB stars
- The Beatrice Tinsley Institute for New Zealand Astronomy and Astrophysics