Abundance Profiles and Kinematics of Damped Ly Absorbing Galaxies at z < 0.65**Observations reported here were obtained in part at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution. ****Observations reported here were obtained in part with the Magellan telescopes, a collaboration between the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, University of Arizona, Harvard University, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ******Based in part on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Academic Article