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Elinor Gates

Elinor is a staff astronomer at Lick Observatory specializing in laser guide star adaptive optics and near infrared camera instrumentation and observations. She received her Ph.D. in Physics/Astronomy from the University of New Mexico in 1998. Her current research interests are studying quasars and their host galaxies.

Bryant Grigsby

In 2000 Bryant was an industrial scientist specializing microfluidics and microfluidic test equipment in the fields of protein crystallization and fuel injector technologies at various startups. In 2005 he became a Staff/Support Astronomer UCO/Lick at Mt Hamilton specializing adaptive optics. In 2006 he started working on the MEMs based visible light adaptive optics system called VILLAGES at the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics (LAO). He is currently working on the final phases of Villages Natural Guide Star mode and the early phases of the Laser Guide Star mode which will transfer to the Shane 3m in 2012.

1996-1999 Network Engineering Consultant (MN)

1999 Computer Science Professor - Brown College (MN)

Paul Lynam

An amateur astronomer since childhood, Paul Lynam studied undergraduate physics with astronomy at the University of Central Lancashire (UK), followed by a research thesis on the meteoroid threat posed to space platforms, leading to a masters degree in physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). A Ph.D. in astrophysics was awarded in 2000 by Liverpool John Moores University (UK) as a result of his research in observational cosmology. He then spent three years at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE, Germany) before a move to the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Germany). A Chile-based ESO fellowship, including supporting operations of the world's most advanced ground-based observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), at its Cerro Paranal site followed and he continued as an operations astronomer at Paranal until late 2010.

In 2011, Paul joined Lick Observatory's staff. His research activity is mainly extragalactic, focusing on properties of giant galaxies, clusters of galaxies, large-scale structure of the Universe and "cosmic flows."