My Keck proposal was awarded telescope time, and I got to go to Hawaii to observe at headquarters! We observed [redacted] looking for [redacted] ;) These were long travel days (two 5.5 hour flights!) but a very cool experience.

I gave the talk about IRAS 01425+2902 b and met some more of our collaborators. It was fun seeing MIT and Boston! I even made it to the aquarium :)

I was fortunate enough to attend TWO international conferneces this summer! Exoplanets V in Leiden, Netherlands and Challenge Accepted at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany! I had a poster in Leiden and my first big-kid talk in Heidelberg. This was the first time I talked openly about our recent discovery of the 3 Myr planet. It was super exciting seeing everyone's excitement for it (and a bit of sadness that the paper wasn't going to be out for a while). Between the conferences, I spent two weeks exploring the Netherlands and Germany! It was a great opportunity that I didn't think I would be able to have.

Another poster! I was awarded a research fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year through NASA's NC Space Grant program. We had a poster session, where I gave a sneak peak at the new planet we were working on! This was before we submittted the paper, so everything was quite vague. The symposium had a mix of astronomy disciplines.

I attended my first in-person confernece! This was the Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium (ERES) at Penn State. I presented a poster on the paper I wrote as a Senior Undergrad and met a lot of our collaborators I had never met in person.

I think airports are really neat places. Or maybe my layovers have just been too long. Either way, airports have some real gems.