Faculty

Robo-AO, Robo-AO-2 (Palomar, Kitt Peak, Maunakea), Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey, Rapid Transient Surveyor, `imaka (PI: M. Chun), IfA TechTalks

Chair, Undergraduate Astronomy Program, Dynamical Reconstruction of Galaxy Collisions, Numerical Methods for Galactic Dynamics

InfraRed Telescope Facility, Ice Age: JWST Studies of Interstellar Ice, High resolution infrared spectroscopy (SOFIA/EXES, TEXES, IRTF/iSHELL)

Stellar and nebular abundances in nearby galaxies, distance scale

Asteroids

wide field surveys , distant galaxies and quasars , explosive transients , moving objects

`imaka - A ground-layer adaptive optics testbed for Maunakea, Keck near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor, MIRAO - A thermal infrared optimized AOS for TMT, UH88AM2 - A new adaptive secondary mirror for the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter Telescope

Groups and Clusters of Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution, Large-Scale Structure and Bulk Flows, Gravitational Lensing, X-ray Astronomy

ORELSE survey, Outreach

Eclipse Parametric Observations, Solar Magnetic Fields, Origin & Evolution of Solar Winds

JWST NIRCam GTO: Spectroscopy of spatially separated exoplanets, JWST NIRCam GTO: Dust and Ice in Molecular Cores

Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Lyman alpha emitters and the High Redshift Universe, The Epoch of Reionization, Galaxy Surveys, Quasar Absorption Line Studies

Asteroseismology, Exoplanets, Stellar Populations of Transit Surveys, Optical Long-Baseline Interferometry, Galactic Archeology

Orbit and size distributions of asteroid populations including main belt and near Earth objects, Centaurs, Trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and interstellar objects., over 120 refereed publications as of 2020 May 18

Comet volatiles (H2O, CO, CO2), Manx comets-testing dynamical models, Ice Age: JWST Studies of Interstellar Ice

Pan-STARRS, Low-Mass Content of the Solar Neighborhood, Andromeda Variability

Manx comets-testing dynamical models, Comet volatiles (H2O, CO, CO2), Comet/asteroid space missions , Characterizing Earth's primordial water, Interstellar planetesimals

Central stars of Galactic planetary nebulae; kinematics of extragalactic planetary nebulae.

Computer Section

Observatory management, Instrumentation development, Infrared spectroscopy

Cosmic Evolution Survey COSMOS, Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey GOALS, Acretion History of AGN AHA, Euclid and WFIRST science Hawaii Two-0 Large Observing Program, The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey BASS, Extragalactic Discussion Group FREDDIE

All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae(ASAS-SN or "assassin")

Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), Daniel K. Inoue Solar Telescope (DKIST)

Pan-STARRS, Near Earth Objects, Dark Skies