RESEARCH
I seek to understand how galaxies formed and evolved when the Universe was only a fraction of its present age. My research is focused through three key projects:
(1)The massive, 200-hour JWST Guaranteed Time Observations CANUCS program that will let us investigate in detail the inner workings of thousands of low-mass galaxies at Cosmic Noon (z~2) and Cosmic Dawn (z>6). Following the successful JWST launch on 25 December 2021, we obtained the first batch of our CANUCS data in October 2022!
(2)The 68-night CFHT CLAUDS survey that together with affiliated deep surveys from other telescopes lets us use several million galaxies over a wide redshift range to do enormously large statistical studies of the processes that drive galaxy evolution. CLAUDS is now joined by its newer sibling, DEUS, which aims to cover 10 sq degrees in the Euclid Deep Field North and study how galaxy properties relate to their location within the high-redshift Cosmic Web.
(3)The GIRMOS AO-fed, multi-IFU spectrograph now under construction by a partnership of Canadian institutions, including our team at Saint Mary’s. GIRMOS will let us do detailed, spatially-resolved studies of 100’s of distant galaxies when commissioned at Gemini-North later this decade.
NEWS
2023 August 3: Devin, Master of Science
Well done, Devin! Next stop: PhD from September!
2023 July 18: travel, travel, travel
Back from an intense bout of research travel: CASCA 2023 (giving presentations on the JWST-CANUCS project and planned galaxy evolution surveys with CASTOR); a visit to the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Warsaw (seminar about JWST-CANUCS); and the European Astronomical Society annual meeting in Krakow (talks about CANUCS at the galaxy evolution session and the gravitational lensing session). It’s awesome to travel and tell people about the fantastic work our team is doing... but it’s also good to be back home at last.
2023 May 11: JWST Cycle 2 results are in!
2023 May 9-11: Speaking about our JWST-based research at the annual meeting of CRAQ