In the Colorado Rockies, with my gaita galega, a traditional bagpipe from the northern Spanish province of Galicia. This gaita was made by the gaitero Antón Varela of the Galician band Os Cempes.

Patrick Morris, PhD

SIRTF Science Center
NASA Herschel Science Center
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91125

SIRTF carried by a Boeing Delta II-heavy from Kennedy Space Center, 01:35:39 EDT, 25 August 2003.

I'm an Associate Staff Scientist at the SIRTF Science Center (SSC) and the NASA Herschel Science Center at the Infrared Processing and Analyis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology.

SIRTF is NASA's Space InfraRed Telescope Facility, representing the final of the four space-borne Great Observatories to be aunched. into orbit. The SSC is part of the team that includes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin Missles and Space, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, the Univeristy of Arizona, and Cornell University. I'm the Downlink and Calibration Scientist for the SIRTF InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS), one of the three instruments in SIRTF's science payload, with responsibilities for the IRS data processing pipeline, performance of the SIRTF Pointing and Control System, and the spectrophotometric calibration of IRS data products from the SSC. I'm also the SSC Liason Scientist to theSIRTF Legacy Team "FEPS" (The Formation and Evolution of Planetery Systems; M. Meyer P.I.) and a participant in the IRS Guaranteed Time Observations team.

My science research includes

Observational studies of the winds and circumstellar environments of hot, massive stars (Wolf-Rayet stars, Luminous Blue Variables, OB stars)
Solar system mineralogy, based on comparisons between observed solid state spectral features and laboratory mineral measurements in the thermal infrared.

Most of my recent work is based on observations obtained with ESA's Infrared Space Observatory, which had spectroscopic, spectrophotometric and imaging capabilities between 2.4 and 200 microns. Over the course of its 2 1/2 year lifetime I worked at Vilspa, near Madrid, Spain, to support calibrations of the Short Wavelength Spectrometer. for the PI nstitutes Space Research Organization of the Netherlands and the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics at Garching, Germany, then continued my research at SRON-Utrecht and at the Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam.

For further information, please see the quick reference table below
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	My Ph.D. thesis "Multiwavelength studies of Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds"		The ISO Short Wavelength Spectrometer and related
Current Research Activities			Atomic and Molecular data
CV Publications			The SIRTF InfraRed Spectrograph
	Other diversions...	Padraic	Piping

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