I designed and project managed the construction and operations of the Cornell Massachusetts Slit Spectrograph (CorMASS), a near-infrared cross-dispersed spectrograph with R~300.  Please see Wilson et al. 2001 for full details.  This project, a collaboration between Cornell and Mike Skrutskie at UMASS, formed the primary component of my thesis.  The instrument, designed for and used extensively on the Palomar 60-inch, went on to be used at the 1.8-m Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-m Telescope, and the 6.5-m Magellan Telescope.  Its last use was in approx. 2006.

Science highlights include spectral confirmation of a very bright T-dwarf and Earthshine observations.