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<h1>Astronomy research</h1>
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<h2>The formation of stars</h2>
<p>My research interests cover star formation, radio and submillimetre astronomy and interferometry. The particular topics I have worked on include:</p>
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<li>The formation and early evolution of high-mass stars;</li>
<li>Circumstellar disks and molecular outflows;</li>
<li>Dynamics of molecular outflows and their influence on the surrounding cloud;</li>
<li>Chemistry of star-forming regions and the relationship between dust and gas emission;</li>
<li>Molecular cloud structure.</li>
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<h2>Observational methods for studying star formation</h2>
<p>Star formation relies on using astronomical techniques at almost all wavelengths.</p>
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<li>Radio astronomy: ionized gas around young stars</li>
<li>Millimetre and Submillimetre astronomy: cold dust and spinning molecules</li>
<li>Infrared astronomy: warm dust and vibrating molecules</li>
<li>Optical astronomy: ionized gas in jets and outflows, dust (by scattered light)</li>
<li>X-ray astronomy: ionized gas in strong magnetic fields (on surface of star)</li>
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<p>I mainly used radio, millimetre and submillimetre techniques to examine the cold dust emission around young stars, probe the kinematics and chemistry using emission from molecules (such as CO, NH<sub>3</sub>, HCN, CH<sub>3</sub>OH and a slew of other interstellar poisons!), and trace the ionized gas which arises when massive stars form or when a star pushes out a supersonic jet of material.</p>
<h2>Publications</h2>
<p>A list of <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=gibb%2Ca&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1">publications</a> from an author search at <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html">ADS</a>.</p>
<p>Publications and citations at <a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=7jVm9coAAAAJ&hl=en">Google Scholar</a>.</p>
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<h2>Astronomical employers</h2>
<p>My most recent post was as the software developer for the <a href="http://www.oracdr.org/oracdr">data reduction</a> pipeline for the <a href="http://www.eaobservatory.org/jcmt/instrumentation/continuum/scuba-2/">SCUBA-2</a> submillimetre camera in the <a href="http://www.phas.ubc.ca/">Department of Physics and Astronomy</a> at the <a href="http://www.ubc.ca/">University of British Columbia</a>. No official research component unfortunately so I had to fit it in surreptitiously and/or rely on my coworkers to do research by proxy :-)</p>
<p>Previous places I worked:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.astro.umd.edu/rareas/lma/">Laboratory for Millimeter-wave Astronomy</a> at the University of Maryland, College Park (Jul 2000 to Jul 2004) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.ast.leeds.ac.uk/">Astrophysics group</a> at the University of Leeds (Nov 1997 to Jun 2000) </li>
<li>The (now defunct) Radio Astronomy Group at the University of Kent (Oct 1993 to Oct 1997)</li>
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