Kathy L Cooksey
Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy.
Inner Mongolia Medical University
China
Biography
Kathy L Cooksey is Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy. She researched the large-scale gaseous structure in the universe to understand how various elements cycle in and out of galaxies, over cosmic time. As light from bright, distant objects traverse the universe, intervening gas clouds—between, around, and in galaxies—absorb the light at wavelengths characteristic, albeit redshifted, of the chemical elements in the clouds.
Research Interest
She researched the large-scale gaseous structure in the universe to understand how various elements cycle in and out of galaxies, over cosmic time. As light from bright, distant objects traverse the universe, intervening gas clouds—between, around, and in galaxies—absorb the light at wavelengths characteristic, albeit redshifted, of the chemical elements in the clouds.
Publications
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Glidden A, Cooper TJ, Cooksey KL, Simcoe RA, O’Meara JM. Predominantly low metallicities measured in a stratified sample of Lyman limit systems at Z= 3.7. The Astrophysical Journal. 2016 Dec 21;833(2):270.
