I'm Will, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Astronomy at Yale University and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. My research seeks to identify the low-mass threshold of galaxy formation through the discovery of "ultra-faint" Milky Way satellites and the subsequent measurement of their internal kinematics, dark matter contents, and chemistries through spectroscopy.

Most of my discovery work is carried out as part of the DELVE Survey - a 125+ night effort to image the southern sky with the Dark Energy Camera on the 4m Blanco Telescope in Chile. The spectroscopic component of my work then involves obtaining with the largest optical telescopes on the planet, including the 6.5m Magellan telescopes (Chile) and the 10m Keck telescopes (Hawai'i).

I am fortunate to be able to carry out this work with many wonderful scientists and mentors. My graduate advisor at Yale is Prof. Marla Geha, and I collaborate especially closely with Profs. Alex Drlica-Wagner and Alex Ji (UChicago), Ting Li (Univ. of Toronto), Dr. Josh Simon (Carnegie Obs.), and Dr. Andrew Pace (CMU).