Gerald Schieven

Roles and responsibilities

ALMA Observatory operations support through the North American ALMA Science Center
Telescope user support
Canadian coordinator: JCMT-Venus survey project
Science Team Member: JCMT Surveys (BISTRO, Gould Belt, Transient)
Professional outreach
Training of HQP
Astronomical research
Public outreach

Editor of Observing with ALMA – A Primer, a relatively short introduction for non-experts in millimetrewave interferometry of the ALMA observatory, how it works, and how to apply for time
JCMT-Venus Survey (Canadian coordinator), a survey to detect and track phosphine and other life-signatures in the atmosphere of Venus
Member of JCMT BISTRO Survey, a survey of magnetic fields in nearby star-forming molecular clouds
Member of JCMT Gould Belt Survey, to map and explore the physics of star formation in nearby molecular clouds

Lee, Y-H., Johnstone, D., Lee, J-E., & 50 co-authors including Moriarty-Schieven, G.H. 2021, The JCMT Transient Survey: Four-year Summary of Monitoring the Submillimeter Variability of Protostars, Astrophysical Journal, 920, 119
ALMA Partnership, Brogan, C.L, & 93 co-authors including Schieven, G. 2015, The 2014 ALMA Long Baseline Campaign: First Results from High Angular Resolution Observations toward the HL Tau Region, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 808, L3
Clancy, R.T., Sandor, B.J., & Moriarty-Schieven, G.H. 2004, A Measurement of the 362 GHz Absorption Line of Mars Atmospheric H₂O₂_,Icarus, 168, 116
Greaves, G.S., Holland, W.S., Moriarty-Schieven, G., Jenness, T., Dent, W.R.F., Zuckerman, B., McCarthy, C., Webb, A., Butner, H.M., Gear, W.K., & Walker, H.J. 1998, A dust ring around Epsilon Eridani: analogue to the young solar system, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 506, 133
Moriarty-Schieven, G.H., Wannier, P.G., Keene, J., & Tamura, M. 1994, Circum-Protostellar Environments II. Envelopes, Activity, and Evolution, Astrophysical Journal, 436, 800
Moriarty-Schieven, G.H., & Snell, R.L. 1988, High Resolution Images of the L1551 Bipolar Outflow II: Structure and Kinematics, Astrophysical Journal, 332, 364

2008-present: Senior Research Officer, NRC Herzberg, Victoria, BC
1998-2008: (Senior) Research Officer, NRC Herzberg, Hilo, HI (Joint Astronomy Centre)
1995-1998: Staff Scientist, Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, HI (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope)
1992-1995: Research Associate, NRC Herzberg, Penticton, BC (Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory)
1990-1992: Post-doctoral fello, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadenca, CA
1988-1990: Assistant Professor of Physics/Post-doctoral Fellow/Lecturer, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

https://astroherzberg.org/people/gerald-schieven/

Principal Research Officer

Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics

5071 West Saanich Road

Victoria, British Columbia V9E 2E7

Preferred language: English

Other(s): French, Spanish

Telephone: 250-448-2760

Email: Gerald.Schieven@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Space sciences, Astronomy, Observational astronomy