Pauline Barmby
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| workplaces = The University of Western Ontario
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Pauline Barmby (born 1972) is a Canadian astronomer currently based at the University of Western Ontario. She studies galaxies, their formation and evolution from an observational standpoint. She studies both nearby galaxies and those at high redshift using telescopes like the Spitzer Space Telescope. She is the co-chair, with Bryan Gaensler, of the Canadian Astronomy 2020 Long Range Plan.{{Cite web|url=https://casca.ca/?page_id=11499|title=LRP2020 – CASCA|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-24}}{{Cite web|url=http://theconversation.com/canadas-grand-plan-to-explore-the-mysteries-of-the-cosmos-122362|title=Canada's grand plan to explore the mysteries of the cosmos|last1=Gaensler|first1=Bryan|last2=Barmby|first2=Pauline|website=The Conversation|language=en|access-date=2019-10-24}}
Education
Barmby obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia in 1995. She received a master's degree in astronomy from Harvard University in 1998, and a PhD degree from Harvard in 2001. Her thesis work was on globular clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy,{{Cite thesis|title=Globular Clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy|url=https://zenodo.org/record/49389?ln=en|date=1 June 2001|first=Pauline|last=Barmby}} and her supervisor was John P. Huchra.
Career
From 2001 to 2007, Barmby was an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, where she was a member of the Spitzer/IRAC telescope team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/spitzer-20060605.html|title=NASA – Andromeda Adrift in Sea of Dust in New NASA Image|website=www.nasa.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-10-24}} She became an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the University of Western Ontario in 2007, and was promoted to associate professor in 2013 and full professor in 2019. She served as associate dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies in the Faculty of Science at Western, and was the Acting Dean of Science in 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.physics.uwo.ca/people/faculty_web_pages/barmby.html|title=Pauline Barmby, Professor – Physics and Astronomy – Western University|website=www.physics.uwo.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-10-24}}{{Citation|last=Barmby|first=Pauline|title=GitHub – PBarmby/cv: Pauline Barmby's CV|date=29 October 2019|url=https://github.com/PBarmby/cv|access-date=2019-11-01}}
Research
Barmby focuses her scientific investigations on nearby galaxies like the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and other galaxies in our Local Group. She studies various regions within these local galaxies, including star-forming regions and related star formation laws and X-ray emitting star clusters. She studies polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in these galaxies. Her work focuses on astronomical 'big data', and she is active in public outreach about astronomy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amateurastronomy.org/astronomically-big-data-pauline-barmby/|title=Astronomically Big Data with Pauline Barmby|date=24 March 2017|website=Hamilton Amateur Astronomers|access-date=2019-10-24}}{{Cite web|url=http://pbarmby.github.io//2018/12/10/victoria.html|title=Pauline Barmby|website=ScienceBorealis.ca|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-10-24}}
Honours and awards
- Florence Bucke Prize, Western University{{Cite web|url=http://www.physics.uwo.ca/news/archives/2013-14/barmby_bucke_prize_2014.html|title=Pauline Barmby is Bucke Prize winner for 2014 – Physics and Astronomy – Western University|website=www.physics.uwo.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-10-24}} (2014)
- University of Western Ontario Faculty of Science Outreach Award (2010) for the Western Astronomy Group{{Cite web|url=https://www.uwo.ca/sci/about_science/awards/faculty_awards_archive.html|title=Faculty Awards Archive – Faculty of Science – Western University|website=www.uwo.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-10-24}}
- Ontario Early Researcher Award (2008){{Cite web|url=https://www.ontario.ca/page/early-researcher-awards|title=Early Researcher Awards|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ontario.ca|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-24}}
- NASA Group Achievement Award to the Spitzer Space Telescope Payload Team (2004)
- Margaret Weyerhauser Jewett Memorial Fellowship (1996)
- Canada Scholar (1990–1995){{Cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/116-6853|title=Pauline Barmby|last=Office of the Secretary to the Governor-General|date=|website=The Governor General of Canada|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-25}}
References
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External links
- [https://nearby-galaxies.github.io/people/ Nearby Galaxies Group website]
- [http://www.physics.uwo.ca/people/faculty_web_pages/barmby.html University webpage]
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Category:21st-century Canadian astronomers
Category:People from Abbotsford, British Columbia
Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Category:University of British Columbia alumni
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni