Hello, Universe! And hello, fine people of CosmoQuest. My name is Nicole and I am the newest member of the CosmoQuest team. You may also know me as NoisyAstronomer and may have even been following along with my dissertation writing saga/complaints over the last few months on Twitter or Google+. (If you did and you are still here, I love you.)

I just moved from Charlottesville where I spent the last 7 years (gasp) as a grad student working primarily on a radio astronomy project called the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization, or PAPER. I love radio telescopes, building new projects, and sharing the findings and techniques of astronomy with pretty much anyone I meet.

My travel buddy, Moonica, at the PAPER South Africa site.

I’ll be helping here on the blog, on the main project site, and floating around on Twitter and other various social networking sites and science blogs. When I’m not online, I expect I’ll be fixing all the horrible grammar in my dissertation, building a tiny radio telescope in my backyard, and making comets out of everyday materials for the education and amusement of anyone around.

Thanks for having me on the team, and I look forward to working with you all!