The SIRTF Legacy Cores to Disks (c2d) Team Last update: Sep. 2, 2006 Co-Investigators: Lori Allen Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Member of SIRTF/IRAC Instrument and Science Team Will work on IRAC-raw data. Science interests include formation and evolution of stellar clusters, the IMF, early disk evolution, young star/ISM interactions. email: leallen@cfa.harvard.edu Geoff Blake Professor of Cosmochemistry and Planetary Science, Caltech Deputy Director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory Member of Radio-Submillimeter panel of Decadal Survey (NRC) Chairman of ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee (2001-2002) Expert in astrochemistry of cores and disks Experience with mm interferometry, spectral line analysis. Coordinating observations with IRS. email: gab@gps.caltech.edu Neal Evans Randall Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas Member of Radio-Submillimeter panel of Decadal Survey (NRC) Chairman of ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee (2000) Interested in testing star formation theories. Experience with FIR-SMM continuum analysis, IR spectrscopy. PI- budgets, management, quality assurance, Bolocam anc. data email: nje@astro.as.utexas.edu Paul Harvey Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas Mission Scientist for NASA/ESA Herschel mission. Member of SOFIA Science Steering Committee and Core Science Team Will work on how to get best spatial information from data. Interested in star formation, techniques. Leads MapI team, mosaicking, source extraction email: pmh@astro.as.utexas.edu Dave Koerner Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University Past member of NICMOS definition team for HST Interested in disks (gas and dust) extending to post-TT phase. Experience with mm interferometry, modeling. Catalogs, data delivery to IRSA, NOAO ancillary data email: koerner@physics.nau.edu Lee Mundy Professor, University of Maryland Chairman of Dept. Fall 2002 Member of NASA Origins of Solar Systems Advisory Panel Member of ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee (2002) Interested in stages from -1 to II, envelope to disk. Experience with mm interferometry, modeling of dust emission. Leads MapII team, cleaned images, band merging email: lgm@astro.umd.edu Phil Myers Director, Radio Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Chair, Observations Review Panel, NASA Origins of Solar Systems (1994-5) Associate Investigator for WIRE. Member IRAC Team. Interested in initial conditions for isolated, clustered star formation, physical processes for SF, MC evolution. Leads IRAC raw data team email: pmyers@cfa.harvard.edu Debbie Padgett Staff Scientist, SIRTF Science Center, Caltech Member of SIRTF/MIPS Instrument Support Team Associate Investigator for WIRE. Interested in disks and their evolution MIPS raw data team email: dlp@ipac.caltech.edu Anneila Sargent Professor of Astronomy, Caltech Director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory (1985- ) Director, Interferometry Science Center (2000- ) Past President, American Astronomical Society (2002-03) ALMA Coordinating Committee/Board (2002- ) Astronomy & Astrophysics Survey Committee (l998-2000) NASA Public Service Medal 1998 Board of Trustees, Associated Universities, Inc. (1996-) NASA Advisory Council (1994-98) Chair, NASA Space Science Advisory Committee (1994-1998) US co-I on ISOCAM Instrument Team and ISO Key Project Interested in all stages from -1 to TT phase. MIPS raw data team, Disks, Bolocam ancillary data email: afs@astro.caltech.edu Karl Stapelfeldt Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Member, JPL SIRTF Project Science Office (1998-) Associate member, SIRTF/MIPS Science Team (1998-) Task lead for MIPS Focus and PSF characterization during SIRTF in-orbit checkout (2003) Associate member HST/WFPC2 Science Team (1993-1998) Member, Hubble Space Telescope User's Committee (2001-2004) Coronagraph Scientist for NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder pre-project (2002-) Member of JPL Coronagraph Study team for NGST (1999) Co-chair, NASA Exojupiter Direct Detection Working Group (2002) Led target selection and AOR building for c2d wTTS observations. Interested in planet formation, disk structure, and disk evolution MIPS raw data team email: krs@exoplanet.jpl.nasa.gov Ewine van Dishoeck Professor of Astronomy, University of Leiden Director, Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics Spinoza Prize, 2001 (highest prize in Dutch Science) Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences 2002 Tinsley Visiting Professor, University of Texas Chair of ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee (2000-2001) ALMA European Project Scientist (2002) Chair of IAU working group on Astrochemistry Member of ESA/NASA Mid-infrared study team for NSGT Interested in astrochemistry, both gas and dust. Experience with ISO, IR spectroscopy IRS team, complementary data, ESO/JCMT coordinator email: ewine@strw.LeidenUniv.nl ASSOCIATE MEMBERS: Will work on SIRTF data (may also work on ancillary/complementary data) Grouped by Cognizant Co-Investigator (CCO), who directs their work and/or represents their interests. CCO = Blake - Adwin Boogert, Assistant Astronomer, NOAO Gemini Science Center (2006) formerly postdoc OVRO group; PhD Groningen 1999. Will use his experience with ISO-SWS to work on SIRTF/IRS reduction. His IRS related research interest is particularly in the area of solid state characteristics of embedded protostars. Currently working on (sub-)millimeter single dish and interferometer observations of icy YSOs, as well as high resolution Keck M band spectroscopy of gas and solid CO. e-mail: aboogert@ipac.caltech.edu -Joanna Brown, Graduate student, Caltech. Working with IRS on "cold" disks. email: jmb@astro.caltech.edu - Klaus Pontoppidan, postdoc Leiden Nov. 1 2000 - 2005, PhD Leiden 2000-2004., Postdoc Caltech, Aug. 2005. Klaus has been instrumental since early 2001 in setting up the data base of sources for IRS observations and collecting available information from the literature, including fluxes from optical to millimeter, SEDs, ages etc., and preparing the initial AORs. PhD thesis includes early Spitzer data. He will continue to be actively involved in day-to-day running of the IRS program and analysis of Spitzer-IRS data of embedded objects, combined with complementary data from ESO VLT-ISAAC and VISIR. e-mail: pontoppi@gps.caltech.edu CCO = Neal Evans - Jacqueline Kessler-Silacci, PhD 2003, Caltech. Has worked on IRS planning and AORs, as well as complementary Keck data. Interested in spectroscopy of disks. Now a SIRTF fellow at Univ. of Texas. email: jes@astro.as.utexas.edu - Kaisa Young PhD UT-Austin 2005. Did AORs for mapping, mosaicking of mapping data, and verification of MIPS data. Worked on Ancillary submillimeter data, including Bolocam, SIMBA, and SCUBA data. Now at Nicholls State University in Louisiana. email: kaisa.young@gmail.com - Chad Young, PhD student UT-Austin Summer 2005. Wrote paper on L1014 for special edition. Writing paper on SCUBA complementary data. And now working on L1221. Chadwick H. Young Department of Physical Sciences Nicholls State University Thibodaux, LA 70310 email: Chad.Young@nicholls.edu - Claudia Knez, PhD student UT-Austin started Sept. 2000. Currently working on modeling line absorption from massive star forming regions, from TEXES spectrometer with Lacy. Publishing IRS paper on ices toward background stars. Verification of IRS data. email: claudia@astro.umd.edu - Jeong-Eun Lee, PhD student UT-Austin 2005. Currently a Hubble Fellow at UCLA. Led paper on L1251B, and is involved in IRS group re chemical models. email: jelee@astro.ucla.edu - Jingwen Wu, PhD student UT-Austin, started Sept. 2001. Currently working on CH3CN modeling of massive cores. Led effort to get SHARCII data. email: jingwen@astro.as.utexas.edu - Andrea Urban, PhD student UT-Austin, started Sept. 2002. Working on theory of collapse, but also backup on data processing. email: aurban@astro.as.utexas.edu - Mike Dunham, PhD student UT-Austin, started Sept. 2004. Working on paper on IRAM014191. Has taken over the quality/progress tracking work and taking over much of g-team work. Will work on VeLLOs as part of thesis. email: mdunham@astro.as.utexas.edu - Jo-hsin Chen, PhD student, UT-Austin, started Sept. 2004 Will probably work mostly on astrochem. Writing a paper on L43/RNO91. email: jhchen@astro.as.utexas.edu - Farhan Amanullah, undergrad at UT-Austin, starts on c2d Summer 2006 Will work on data processing, quality checking, and web maintenance. Interested in project and may work on papers. email: farhan_syed@mail.utexas.edu - Juan M. Alcala' (INAF-OAC-Napoli) currently holds a position at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, where he is associate astronomer. His scientific interests are in the area of star formation in general and in particular on young stellar objects at the low and very low mass domains. Juan M. leads effort for WFI complementary data on Cham. email: alcala@oacn.inaf.it CCO = Paul Harvey - Bill Spiesman, PhD University Washington, 1993. Currently with the McDonald Observatory computing group but will move to SIRTF part time in July 2002 and full time in Sept. He will use experience from COBE and other projects to develop mosaic maps of SIRTF image data and extract source brightness and position data from the maps. Scientific interests include dust properties, dynamics and evolution, and stellar and sub-stellar spectral evolution. A parasitic interest is to develop a map of the resonantly trapped dust through which the SIRTF spacecraft will travel as it trails the Earth during its mission. email: spies@astro.as.utexas.edu - Lucas Cieza PhD student UT-Austin, started Sept. 2002. Main Map-1 processor. Leading papers on disk frequency in stars sample. Interested in disks and planetary system formation. email: lcieza@astro.as.utexas.edu CCO = Dave Koerner - Zahed Wahhaj Working on catalog as a postdoc at NAU. Soon to leave for postdoc in Hawaii with Mike Liu. Leads paper 3 on Stars. email: wahhaj@ifa.hawaii.edu - Jeff Henrikson Jeff Henrikson began work March 2006 at NAU as a 0.5 FTE staff member as a systems support administrator and data analyst. He has several years computing experience in this position with the Biology Department (where he is still a 0.5 FTE employee) and a genetics research lab. He also has astronomy experience as a former NOAO/Kitt Peak employee and as outreach coordinator for Lowell Observatory. He currently teaches introductory astronomy at Coconino College and will be entering the NAU Masters Program in the Fall. Jeff's new position is currently funded under NASA through an Astrophysical Data Program grant allocated to a 2MASS database search for substellar companions to nearby stars. While Zahed is still here (through July), he will gradually take over maintenance and updating of YStars database. I expect he will be our principal database staff at the time of final delivery in September. email: jeff.henrikson@nau.edu CCO = Lee Mundy - Nicholas Chapman, graduate student, U. Maryland. Lead on Map2 bandmerge. Leads paper on Lupus MIPS. Interested in outflows, young stars. email: chapman@astro.umd.edu - Shih-Ping Lai, BIMA Postdoc at Maryland Lead on source ID and fitting to templates, classification. Moving to Taiwan in August Institute of Astronomy and Department of Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan e-mail: slai@phys.nthu.edu.tw - Peter Teuben, Scientific Programmer, U. Maryland Working on data storage, access systems, as well as higher level map products. Has Maryland annex to the c2d web site: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/sirtf/ email: teuben@astro.umd.edu CCO = Phil Myers - Chang Won Lee, Senior Scientist, Korean Astronomical Observatory Chang Won has drawn up the list of starless cores for our Legacy program, based in part on his catalog work in optical selection of regions of high extinction from the digital sky survey and on his molecular line observations to identify and map infall candidates. He will be maintaining collaboration from his new post in Korea. email: cwl@trao.re.kr - Tyler Bourke, Postdoctoral Fellow, SAO, 2000-present, PhD 1998, University of New South Wales. Tyler has drawn up the list of cores with stars for our Legacy program, based in part on his catalog work for southern sources (Bourke, Hyland & Robinson 1995, MNRAS, 276, 1052) and on his extensive line observations of southern globules. He has been working on infall studies in both northern and southern sources. Tyler has been involved in complementary data collection and will stay involved as he moves to SMA project. email: tbourke@cfa.harvard.edu - Alicia Porras. Now at INAOE. Alicia's thesis work with Irene Cruz-Gonzalez and Luis Salas involved near-infrared imaging and analysis of more than 40 young stellar clusters in order to deduce their characteristic initial mass functions (IMF). She spent the last year as a postdoctoral fellow at Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM-Morelia working with Luis Rodriguez on observations and analysis of VLA data of thermal jets. She will work with the SAO IRAC team on analysis, evaluation, and improvement of image quality, and on research into structure and formation of young clusters. email: aporras@inaoep.mx - Tracy Huard. Postdoctoral Fellow, SAO, Lead on IRAC-CC. He will help to identify problems with, and improve the quality of, IRAC images. He plans to use SIRTF observations to model dust grain populations in different cloud environments as well as study the extinction profiles (and inferred structure) of the cloud cores. email: thuard@cfa.harvard.edu - Jes Joergensen: postdoc CfA starting Sept. 2004; PhD Leiden Oct. 2004. Jes' main PhD and postdoc topic is a molecular line/continuum survey and analysis of a sample of class 0 objects with the JCMT, OVRO and SMA, including our Spitzer sample as a subset. He will continue to be involved in the analysis of Spitzer data on deeply embedded objects and in the complementary SCUBA data on cores. e-mail: jjorgensen@cfa.harvard.edu CCO = Debbie Padgett - Alberto Noriega-Crespo: SSC Interested in working with Debbie on MIPS data. Scientific interests include extended cloud emission, outflow cavities, jets. email: alberto@ipac.caltech.edu - JeongGhee Rho SSC/MIPS Interested in extended emission. email: rho@ipac.caltech.edu CCO = Anneila Sargent - Tim Brooke - Research Staff, Caltech (starting Jan. 2003, temporary position), Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook, 1988. Will help process, evaluate, and do quality assurance for MIPS photometry, review future AOR's, and conduct related scientific research. His scientific interests include infrared studies of the dust and ices within molecular clouds and around young stars. email: tyb@astro.caltech.edu - Melissa Enoch, PhD student, Caltech Working on Bolocam observations, reduction on Perseus. Will also work on Spitzer data on Perseus, esp. B1 area. Combining Spitzer and Bolocam data on 3 clouds. email: menoch@astro.berkeley.edu CCO = Karl Stapefeldt - Luisa Rebull: Staff Scientist at SSC Doing Palomar 10 micron imaging of NGC 1333 with Karl Interested in rotational evolution of young stars Will work on MIPS data with focus on Perseus, but distinct from what Melissa Enoch is doing. email: rebull@ipac.caltech.edu CCO = Ewine van Dishoeck - Michiel Hogerheijde: Assistant professor in Leiden starting Sept. 1 2003; PhD Leiden 1998. Large expertise in submm single-dish and interferometry observations of protostars and disks. Michiel is interested in IRS and SED data on sources which are in transition from the Class I to Class II stage. He also collaborates on SCUBA/SIMBA and other complementary programs (e.g., ESO-ADONIS). He has a program for submm follow-up studies of disks in the c2d Spitzer program. e-mail: michiel@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Jean-Charles Augereau, Postdoc Leiden Nov. 15 2002-2005, now at Univ. of Grenoble. Will work on interpretation of the Spitzer-IRS spectra, with a focus on the (older) Class II sources. Is involved in modeling of optical constants, PAH excitation and in complementary data programs, including VLT-ISAAC, VISIR and JCMT. e-mail: augereau@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr - Johan Olofsson, PhD student at Grenoble, starting Fall 2006. working with Jean-Charles on the modeling of the silicate features, using the modeling tools available in the c2d team. During his master project, supervised by Estelle Moraux and Jean-Louis Monin, he reduced deep optical and near-IR images to obtain the stellar mass function of a 150Myr-old cluster, and to identify low mass stellar objects. email: Johan.Olofsson@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr - Fred Lahuis, Programmer Leiden/Groningen April 2002-2006, MSc Univ. of Groningen. Fred has extensive programming experience from ISO-SWS, and is responsible for our software contribution to the IRS team/SSC. He is developing the IRS data reduction pipeline for the data deliveries to the SSC. Will also help in implementing any spectroscopic modeling tools within the IRS reduction package. Scientific interests focus on gas-phase species in Spitzer-IRS spectra. Is aiming for a PhD on ISO/Spitzer data by 2006. e-mail: freddy@sron.rug.nl - Vincent Geers, PhD student Leiden since Feb. 2003. Vincent works on the day-to-day data reduction and interpretation of Spitzer-IRS spectra, in particular the class II sources. He is also involved in complementary ground-based projects, i.p.\ VLT-ISAAC and VISIR. e-mail: vcgeers@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Tim van Kempen, PhD student Leiden since Sept. 2004. Tim will work mainly on complementary APEX and JCMT observations of deeply embedded YSOs, but may be involved in the analysis of Spitzer data of the same objects. e-mail: kempen@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Bruno Merin, postdoc Leiden starting Nov. 2004, moving to ESTEC October 2006, will still work on c2d. PhD Spain summer 2004. Bruno worked with Calvet at the CfA on the modeling of disk SEDs, producing a large grid of models with IRAC/MIPS colors accessible through the Web. Bruno is interested in becoming involved in the c2d Spitzer program, especially in the second look IRS observations and disk modeling. e-mail: merin@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Zita Banhidi, PhD student in Stockholm. Will work on Serpens spectral map. Zita is an Odin PhD student at the Stockholm Obervatory supervised by René Liseau. Zita is going to work primarily on observations of water and ammonia vapour in dense cores and outflows in Serpens and Ophiuchus. Odin is a satellite hosting a 1.1m telescope used in equal parts for science in astronomy and aeronomy. The water ice information from the Spitzer spectral map of the Serpens core and the Odin water vapour observations will complement each other. In addition she will also work on VLT-ISAAC spectra of water and CO ices in dense cores. e-mail: zita@astro.su.se - Antonio Crapsi, Postdoc at Leiden with van Dishoeck and Hogerheijde since August 2005. Will move to Spain in summer 2007. His main scientific interests are the physical and chemical structure of pre-stellar cores and VELLOs. In Leiden, he has become familiar with Kees Dullemond's 3D radiative transfer code and is using it to model a set of Class I sources and disks observed with Spitzer and millimeter interferometers. e-mail: crapsi@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Karin Oberg, PhD student Leiden starting September 2005, BSc Caltech (chemistry). Karin works in the Sackler laboratory for astrophysics at Leiden on ice spectroscopy, thermal desorption and photodesorption of ices. She is also involved in the analysis ice observations for a small fraction of her time, in particular solid CH4 ice with Spitzer and VISIR. email: oberg@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Isa Oliveira, PhD student Leiden/Caltech, starting February 2007. Working on disk evolution in c2d clouds, including observations and reduction of optical spectroscopy of T Tauri stars. Will also be heavily involved in Serpens-IRS GO3 survey. MSc in Leiden January 2007 including project on optical spectroscopy of Serpens stars. Will spend first year at Caltech, last three years in Leiden. e-mail: oliveira@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Jeanette Bast, PhD student Leiden/Caltech, starting March 2007. Interested in physics and chemistry of inner protoplanetary disks using VLT-CRIRES and IRS spectroscopy. Her sample will be c2d selected with a range of evolutionary stages, including the newly discovered cold disks (GO3 proposal). MSc in Stockholm early 2007 including project on submm observations of AGB stars. Will spend second year at Caltech, the other three years in Leiden. AFFILIATES: Ancillary/Complementary data projects or Modeling/Lab data CCO = Neal Evans - Jason Glenn: Faculty, Univ. of Colorado. Collaborator on Bolocam ancillary data. email: jglenn@casa.colorado.edu -Katelyn Allers, PhD student UT-Austin, 2005. Currently a Postdoc with M. Liu in Hawaii. Coordinated brown dwarf studies by combining IRAC and ground-based JHK photometry to search for young Jupiter-mass objects in Large Clouds. The near infrared observations along with the IRAC bands will allow her to obtain rough SED's for low-mass objects, and possibly constrain the extreme low end of the initial mass function. email: allers@ifa.hawaii.edu -Dan Jaffe, Prof. UT Austin. Working with Allers on NIR studies, searching for Brown Dwarfs via NIR/IRAC colors. - Jens Kauffmann, Frank's student, finished PhD. Writing paper on MAMBO data. Now a postdoc with Alyssa at CFA. email: jkauffmann@cfa.harvard.edu - Yancy Shirley Phd UT 2002, currently Bok fellow at U. Arizona Involved with complementary data, esp. SCUBA obs. Has done VLA/GBT followup on some of the cores. Working on submm/NIR opacity ratio with Tracy email: yshirley@as.arizona.edu - Rolf Chini Collecting SIMBA data on southern cores email: chini@astro.ruhr-uni-bochum.de -Katrin Brede Rolf's student, primarily responsible for SIMBA data reduction. Has delivered table to the NAU archive. Now moving to Taiwan (ASIAA). email: katrin.brede@rub.de CCO = Paul Harvey CCO = Dave Koerner - Peter Allen Graduate student, U. Penn Worked on the NOAO spectroscopy. No further involvement likely. e-mail: pallen@copernicus.physics.upenn.edu. - James Keller Graduate Student, NAU He is going to complete NOAO data reduction/analysis and archive it in a database together with other photometry (including IRAS) worthy of analysis in its own right. e-mail: jrk62@ucc.dana.nau.edu CCO = Phil Myers - Peter J. Barnes, Research Fellow, University of Sydney. His interests are using observations of star formation from low- to high-mass to constrain theory, including radiative transfer, chemistry, physical structure, and modelling; spiral structure in the Milky Way and Local Group galaxies; supernova remnants; planetary atmospheres and surfaces, including minor planets; synthesis imaging techniques; general-purpose software tools for data reduction and analysis. He is involved in aquiring uniform molecular line data for the southern C2D cores, for now mostly from the 22m Mopra dish of the Australia Telescope, but later from the Compact Array as well. Mopra's unique flexible correlator will allow simultaneous mapping, at ~30" resolution and 0.1 K sensitivity in 0.1 km/s channels, of up to 8 separate lines within an instantaneous 8GHz window, placed anywhere within the 77-115 GHz band of the new MMIC receivers. Eventually the ATCA data will allow ~2-3" imaging of the same. We will use these data to compile a comprehensive database on the molecular properties of many of the southern C2D cores. Once combined with continuum and SED information, we will be able to form a systematic chemical and physical evolutionary picture of low-mass cores. email: peterb@physics.usyd.edu.au - Alyssa Goodman (Harvard) Leads COMPLETE team that is obtaining a major complementary data set. Liaison to the rest of the COMPLETE team. email: agoodman@cfa.harvard.edu - Chris DeVries, Postdoctoral Fellow, SAO, 2002-present, PhD 2002, UMass Amherst. Chris studies the kinematics of starless cores and bright rimmed clouds. He is participating in a complementary data collection program of molecular line observations of starless cores which are part of our Legacy program. email: devries@cjas.org - David C. Murphy, Support Scientist, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Pasadena, CA). His interests are ground based infrared astronomy, astronomical instrumentation, infrared spectroscopy star formation, dark clouds, galactic structure, low-mass star formation, high-mass star formation, brown dwarfs, extragalactic astronomy, and the physics of molecular clouds. He will initially be involved in deep JHKs imaging (Ks=19.7, S/N=10) of select sub-samples of C2D cores to ascertain their density profiles using the Near Infrared Extinction Method. The observations will be conducted at Las Campanas Observatory using the WIRC near infrared camera on the Carngie 2.5m du Pont telescope. This high efficiency survey instrument (developed by Murphy and colleagues), has integral active optics and produces a 13' X 13' final image product with 0.5" FWHM image quality and 0.196" pixel sampling. A follow-up observational program will also be developed for the Magellan Telescope 6.5m PANIC NIR camera which has a 2' X 2' field, 0.30" image quality, and 0.125" pixel sampling. A northern component to this survey is in the planning stage. - Subhanjoy Mohanty (Spitzer Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): main research interests are origins, initial conditions (accretion, disks,..), evolution, and atmospheres of brown dwarfs and ultra-low mass stars. will work on obtaining high/low-res IR spectra of sources within c2d "starless" cores, with a view to constraining mass and accretion rate. email: smohanty@cfa.harvard.edu CCO = Anneila Sargent - Stuartt Corder, PhD student, Caltech Will conduct follow-up observations of transition disks in the (sub)mm. Will model continuum and molecular line emission. email: sac@astro.caltech.edu CCO = Karl Stapelfeldt - Francois Menard: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Universite de Grenoble Leads the wide-field optical CCD imaging of Perseus, Ophiuchus, Serpens, and N hemisphere isolated cores using the CFHT. Will obtain R, I, z, and Halpha images, and extract point source photometry. Interested in young brown dwarfs and circumstellar disks. email: menard@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr - Jerome Bouvier: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Universite de Grenoble Assisting Francois Menard with CFHT optical imaging. Interested in young binaries and circumstellar disks. email: Jerome.Bouvier@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr - Catherine Dougados: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Universite de Grenoble Assisting Francois Menard with CFHT optical imaging. Interested in young brown dwarfs and Herbig-Haro jets. email: dougados@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr - Gaspard Duchene: Postdoctoral scientist at UCLA. Assisting Francois Menard with CFHT optical imaging. Interested in young binaries and circumstellar disks. email: duchene@astro.ucla.edu CCO = Ewine van Dishoeck - Fredrik Schoier: Postdoc Stockholm, starting March 2003, postdoc Leiden 2000-2003. Fredrik's main topic is radiative transfer and analysis of JCMT/OVRO continuum and molecular lines of embedded YSOs. Would like to stay involved in the modeling of the embedded sources e-mail: fredrik@strw.leidenuniv.nl - Kees Dullemond, Postdoc MPIA (A for Astronomy) Heidelberg; PhD 2000 Leiden. Main topic is 1-D and 2-D radiative transfer in dust continuum, and the development of self-consistent disk models. Has provided a widget based front-end interface for interactive fitting of disk models to the data (cgplus). 2D envelope and disk models are available to the c2d team on a collaborative basis. Full Address: Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy Koenigstuhl 17 69117 Heidelberg Germany e-mail: dullemon@mpia-hd.mpg.de - Fernando Comeron, ESO, currently holds a faculty position at the European Southern Observatory in Garching (Germany), where he is associate astronomer and Head of the User Support Group. His scientific interests are in the area of young stellar objects, both at high and at very low masses, as well as in interstellar gas dynamics and galactic structure. Fernando leads effort for WFI complementary data on Lupus. email: fcomeron@eso.org CCO = Lee Mundy General scientific interaction: =============================== CCO = Lori Allen - Tom Megeath and others on the IRAC GTO team for scientific and technical advice. Scientific interests in young clusters and their initial conditions. May be involved in collaborative projects between members of the IRAC GTO team and our legacy team. email: tmegeath@cfa.harvard.edu CCO = Phil Myers -Paola Caselli (Arcetri), Mario Tafalla (O.A.N., Madrid), James Di Francesco (HIA), Andrew Walsh (CfA), David Wilner (CfA), Ted Bergin (CfA) involved in spectroscopy of molecular cores, including kinematics and chemistry. - the COMPLETE team (via Alyssa as liaison) Joao Alves (ESO), Hector Arce (CIT), Paola Caselli (Arcetri), James Di Francesco (HIA), Mark Heyer (UMASS/FCRAO), Doug Johnstone (HIA), Scott Schnee (CFA), Mario Tafalla (OAN), Tom Wilson (SMTO) CCO = Ewine van Dishoeck - Rens Waters, Prof. Univ. of Amsterdam: silicate features, Herbig Ae stars, radiative transfer - Xander Tielens, Prof. Univ. of Groningen: PAHs, dust properties and evolution - Thomas Henning, Director, MPIA-Heidelberg. Dust modeling, joint EU funding, link with Meyer team. - Bernhard Brandl, will move to Leiden, has been one of the leaders of the SMART team. Collaboration on IRS matters likely.