Observing Experience

I have been very successful in obtaining time on some of the world's best radio and millimetre astronomical instruments. Here I have compiled (most of) my observing experience, where the projects highlighted in red are those on which I am the Principle Investigator.

2013 Gemini "Obtaining the Cosmic Gas Mass Density from 21-cm in MgII Absorption Systems" [18 hours]

2013 GBT "Five Strong HI Absorbers Towards MG J0414+0534 - Where Is The Molecular Gas?" [32 hours]

Oct 2012 GBT "Obtaining the Cosmic Mass Density from 21-cm and MgII Absorbers" [30 hours]

Sep 2012 ATCA "First Systematic Deep Search for High-z CO Absorption" [71.5 hours, Mahony et al.]

Jun 2012 ATCA "A Search for HI Absorption in Young Compact Radio Galaxies" [12 hours, Sadler et al.]

May 2012 ATCA "Constraining the Cosmological Variations of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio Using Methanol" [8 hours, Muller et al.]

Jan 2012 GMRT "Where is the Missing Material in High Redshift Galaxies?" [30 hours]

Jan 2012 GMRT "Atomic and Molecular Absorption in Dim Radio Galaxies and Quasars" [18 hours]

Sep 2009 ATCA "Molecules at z=0.89: A Survey of Absorption Lines Over the Whole 7mm Band Toward PKS1830-211" [16 hours, Muller et al.]

Jul 2011 ATCA "Measurements of the CMB Temperature at z = 0.89" [8 hours, Muller et al.]

Apr 2011 ATCA "A Search for HI and OH Absorption in Young Compact Radio Galaxies" [72 hours +, Sadler et al.]

Aug 2010 ATCA "A Pilot Survey for an Unknown Population of High Redshift Galaxies" [40 hours]

Jun 2010 GBT "Atomic and Molecular Gas in the Most Distant Galaxies" [40 hours]

Dec 2009 WSRT "HI Absorption in High Redshift Radio Galaxies" [25 hours]

Nov 2009 GMRT "Atomic and Molecular Absorption in Dim Radio Galaxies and Quasars" [6 hours]

Sep 2009 ATCA "Molecules at z=0.89: A Survey of Absorption Lines Over the Whole 7mm Band Toward PKS1830-211" [16 hours, Muller et al.]

Sep 2009 GBT "A Search for Cold Neutral Gas in Dim Radio Galaxies and Quasars I" [40 hours]

Jun 2009 APEX "Ionised Carbon at Large Look-Back Times" [40 hours]

Oct 2008 APEX "Ionised Carbon at Large Look-Back Times" [20 hours]

2008 Gemini "Searching for Dusty Absorbers in Front of Quasars" [10 hours, Whiting et al.]

2008 Effelsberg "Ammonia at High Redshift" [72 hours]

May 2008 GBT "The Metallicity-21-cm Line Strength Relation in Damped Absorbers" [30 hours]

May 2008 GBT "OH Absorption In the Lensing and Host Galaxies of J0414+0534" [24 hours]

Mar 2008 GMRT "HI 21-cm Absorption in z_abs> 3.2 Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption Systems" [30 hours]
Dec 2007 NRT "Dusty Obscurations Towards Reddened Quasars" [75 hours]
Jul 2007 WSRT "A Pure Molecular Cloud at 500 Mpc?" [15 hours]
2006 - '07 GBT "A Wide-Band Search of the Source of the Obscuration of Quasars" [54 hours]

2006 - '07 GBT "The Nature of High Redshift Intervening Absorption Systems" [29 hours]

2006 - '07 GBT "A Pure Molecular Cloud at z~0.13?" [18 hours]

Late 2006 WSRT "Redshifted HI 21-cm in Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption Systems" [28 hours]
Aug 2005 ATCA "Millimetre-Wave Molecular Absorption in Red Gravitational Lenses" [28 hours]
Feb 2005 WSRT "Redshifted HI and OH Absorption Towards Red Quasars" [47 hours]
Feb 2005 GMRT "Redshifted HI and OH Absorption Towards Red Quasars and Radio Galaxies" [49 hours]

Jun 2004 Parkes "6-cm OH Absorption in PKS 1830-211" [54 hours]
May 2004 Effelsberg "Highly Redshifted HI and OH Absorption towards BL Lacs and in Obscured Radio Sources" [36 hours]

Apr 2004 Parkes "Redshifted OH Absorption in Red Quasars"[24 hours]

Apr 2004 GBT "Highly Redshifted HI and OH Absorption in Red Quasars" [33 hours]

Mar 2004 GMRT "HI and OH Absorption in High Redshift Radio Loud Quasars" [69 hours]

Mar 2004 IRAM 30-m "High Redshift Molecular Absorption in Red Quasars" [48 hours]

Mar 2004 NRO 45-m "High Redshift Molecular Absorption in Red Quasars" [24 hours]

Jan 2004 Tidbinbilla "High Redshift Molecular Absorption in Visually Dim Quasars" [24 hours]

May 2003 NRO 45-m "A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Absorption Systems Towards Millimetre Loud Red Quasars" [64 hours]
Apr 2003 GBT "A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [24 hours]

Dec 2002 SEST "Confirming High Redshift Molecular Absorption Systems"[64 hours]

Oct 2002 SEST "Millimetre Fluxes of QSOs Illuminating Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers"[32 hours]

Sep 2002 ATCA "Molecular Absorption Lines in High Redshift Quasars" [17 hours]

Aug 2002 ATCA "Millimetre Fluxes of QSOs Illuminating Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [28 hours]

Jun 2002 ATCA "Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [22 hours]

Apr 2002 SEST "A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Southern Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [44 hours]

Feb 2002 SEST "A Search for High Redshift Molecular Absorption Systems" [64 hours]

Feb 2002 OSO 20-m "A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Northern Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [75 hours]

Jan 2002 Parkes "A Search for HI in Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [99 hours]

Dec 2001 SEST "Millimetre Fluxes of QSOs Illuminating Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [16 hours]

Jul 2001 MOPRA "Hot Molecular Cores Towards the Galactic Plane"

Aug 2001 SEST "Probing Variations in the Fundamental Constants with QSO Absorption Lines"

Apr 2001 SEST "The Distribution of Dense Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy" [34 hours]

Feb 2001 SEST "A Large Scale Molecular Outflow in Centaurus A?" [80 hours]

Feb 2001 SEST "Global Molecular Gas Luminosities in Near-by Southern Seyferts" [30 hours]

Oct 2000 SEST "CO Observations of the Magellanic Clouds"

Sep 2000 OSO 20-m "Global Molecular Gas Luminosities in Near-by Northern Seyferts" [168 hours]

Aug 2000 SEST "Global Molecular Gas Luminosities in Near-by Southern Seyferts" [40 hours]

Jun 2000 SEST "A Molecular Outflow in NGC 4953?" [36 hours]

Apr 2000 SEST "The Large Scale Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy" [30 hours]

Dec 1999 SEST "Shocked Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy"

Dec 1999 SEST "Post-Perihelion Activity of Comet Hale-Bopp at 10 AU"

Dec 1999 SEST "Extragalactic Observations of C¹⁸O and C¹⁷O"

Nov 1999 OSO 20-m "Molecular Outflows in Type 1 Seyfert Galaxies"
Jun 1999 ATCA "An HI Mosaic of the Circinus Galaxy"

Jun 1999 SEST "The Large Scale Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy"

Dec 1998 SEST "Circumnuclear Molecular Gas Distribution in NGC 4945"

Nov 1998 OSO 20-m "Dense Molecular Gas in Northern Seyfert Galaxies"

Oct 1998 SEST "Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Seyfert Galaxies"

Aug 1998 SEST "Molecules in NGC 4945 and the Circinus Galaxy"

Jun 1998 SEST "HCO⁺ and CO in the Small Magellanic Cloud"

Feb 1998 OSO 20-m "Dense Molecular Gas in Northern Seyfert Galaxies"

Dec 1997 SEST "Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Seyfert Galaxies"

Jun 1997 SEST "Molecular Clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud; the N44 region"

Feb 1997 SEST "Molecular Ions in Large Magellanic Cloud" for A. Heikkilä et al.

Dec 1996 SEST Assisting Arto Heikkilä with Magellanic Cloud observations

Dec 1995 SEST Assisting Lars E B Johansson with "Molecular Clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud" & "Molecular Lines in the Magellanic Clouds"

As well as taking part in the Jodrell Bank Millisecond Pulsar Survey (August 1994) and the UNSW Extrasolar Planet Search (from late 2006).

2013	Gemini	"Obtaining the Cosmic Gas Mass Density from 21-cm in MgII Absorption Systems" [18 hours]
2013	GBT	"Five Strong HI Absorbers Towards MG J0414+0534 - Where Is The Molecular Gas?" [32 hours]
Oct 2012	GBT	"Obtaining the Cosmic Mass Density from 21-cm and MgII Absorbers" [30 hours]
Sep 2012	ATCA	"First Systematic Deep Search for High-z CO Absorption" [71.5 hours, Mahony et al.]
Jun 2012	ATCA	"A Search for HI Absorption in Young Compact Radio Galaxies" [12 hours, Sadler et al.]
May 2012	ATCA	"Constraining the Cosmological Variations of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio Using Methanol" [8 hours, Muller et al.]
Jan 2012	GMRT	"Where is the Missing Material in High Redshift Galaxies?" [30 hours]
Jan 2012	GMRT	"Atomic and Molecular Absorption in Dim Radio Galaxies and Quasars" [18 hours]
Sep 2009	ATCA	"Molecules at z=0.89: A Survey of Absorption Lines Over the Whole 7mm Band Toward PKS1830-211" [16 hours, Muller et al.]
Jul 2011	ATCA	"Measurements of the CMB Temperature at z = 0.89" [8 hours, Muller et al.]
Apr 2011	ATCA	"A Search for HI and OH Absorption in Young Compact Radio Galaxies" [72 hours +, Sadler et al.]
Aug 2010	ATCA	"A Pilot Survey for an Unknown Population of High Redshift Galaxies" [40 hours]
Jun 2010	GBT	"Atomic and Molecular Gas in the Most Distant Galaxies" [40 hours]
Dec 2009	WSRT	"HI Absorption in High Redshift Radio Galaxies" [25 hours]
Nov 2009	GMRT	"Atomic and Molecular Absorption in Dim Radio Galaxies and Quasars" [6 hours]
Sep 2009	ATCA	"Molecules at z=0.89: A Survey of Absorption Lines Over the Whole 7mm Band Toward PKS1830-211" [16 hours, Muller et al.]
Sep 2009	GBT	"A Search for Cold Neutral Gas in Dim Radio Galaxies and Quasars I" [40 hours]
Jun 2009	APEX	"Ionised Carbon at Large Look-Back Times" [40 hours]
Oct 2008	APEX	"Ionised Carbon at Large Look-Back Times" [20 hours]
2008	Gemini	"Searching for Dusty Absorbers in Front of Quasars" [10 hours, Whiting et al.]
2008	Effelsberg	"Ammonia at High Redshift" [72 hours]
May 2008	GBT	"The Metallicity-21-cm Line Strength Relation in Damped Absorbers" [30 hours]
May 2008	GBT	"OH Absorption In the Lensing and Host Galaxies of J0414+0534" [24 hours]
Mar 2008	GMRT	"HI 21-cm Absorption in z_abs> 3.2 Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption Systems" [30 hours]
Dec 2007	NRT	"Dusty Obscurations Towards Reddened Quasars" [75 hours]
Jul 2007	WSRT	"A Pure Molecular Cloud at 500 Mpc?" [15 hours]
2006 - '07	GBT	"A Wide-Band Search of the Source of the Obscuration of Quasars" [54 hours]
2006 - '07	GBT	"The Nature of High Redshift Intervening Absorption Systems" [29 hours]
2006 - '07	GBT	"A Pure Molecular Cloud at z~0.13?" [18 hours]
Late 2006	WSRT	"Redshifted HI 21-cm in Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption Systems" [28 hours]
Aug 2005	ATCA	"Millimetre-Wave Molecular Absorption in Red Gravitational Lenses" [28 hours]
Feb 2005	WSRT	"Redshifted HI and OH Absorption Towards Red Quasars" [47 hours]
Feb 2005	GMRT	"Redshifted HI and OH Absorption Towards Red Quasars and Radio Galaxies" [49 hours]
Jun 2004	Parkes	"6-cm OH Absorption in PKS 1830-211" [54 hours]
May 2004	Effelsberg	"Highly Redshifted HI and OH Absorption towards BL Lacs and in Obscured Radio Sources" [36 hours]
Apr 2004	Parkes	"Redshifted OH Absorption in Red Quasars"[24 hours]
Apr 2004	GBT	"Highly Redshifted HI and OH Absorption in Red Quasars" [33 hours]
Mar 2004	GMRT	"HI and OH Absorption in High Redshift Radio Loud Quasars" [69 hours]
Mar 2004	IRAM 30-m	"High Redshift Molecular Absorption in Red Quasars" [48 hours]
Mar 2004	NRO 45-m	"High Redshift Molecular Absorption in Red Quasars" [24 hours]
Jan 2004	Tidbinbilla	"High Redshift Molecular Absorption in Visually Dim Quasars" [24 hours]
May 2003	NRO 45-m	"A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Absorption Systems Towards Millimetre Loud Red Quasars" [64 hours]
Apr 2003	GBT	"A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [24 hours]
Dec 2002	SEST	"Confirming High Redshift Molecular Absorption Systems"[64 hours]
Oct 2002	SEST	"Millimetre Fluxes of QSOs Illuminating Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers"[32 hours]
Sep 2002	ATCA	"Molecular Absorption Lines in High Redshift Quasars" [17 hours]
Aug 2002	ATCA	"Millimetre Fluxes of QSOs Illuminating Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [28 hours]
Jun 2002	ATCA	"Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [22 hours]
Apr 2002	SEST	"A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Southern Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [44 hours]
Feb 2002	SEST	"A Search for High Redshift Molecular Absorption Systems" [64 hours]
Feb 2002	OSO 20-m	"A Search for Highly Redshifted Molecular Lines in Northern Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [75 hours]
Jan 2002	Parkes	"A Search for HI in Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [99 hours]
Dec 2001	SEST	"Millimetre Fluxes of QSOs Illuminating Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers" [16 hours]
Jul 2001	MOPRA	"Hot Molecular Cores Towards the Galactic Plane"
Aug 2001	SEST	"Probing Variations in the Fundamental Constants with QSO Absorption Lines"
Apr 2001	SEST	"The Distribution of Dense Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy" [34 hours]
Feb 2001	SEST	"A Large Scale Molecular Outflow in Centaurus A?" [80 hours]
Feb 2001	SEST	"Global Molecular Gas Luminosities in Near-by Southern Seyferts" [30 hours]
Oct 2000	SEST	"CO Observations of the Magellanic Clouds"
Sep 2000	OSO 20-m	"Global Molecular Gas Luminosities in Near-by Northern Seyferts" [168 hours]
Aug 2000	SEST	"Global Molecular Gas Luminosities in Near-by Southern Seyferts" [40 hours]
Jun 2000	SEST	"A Molecular Outflow in NGC 4953?" [36 hours]
Apr 2000	SEST	"The Large Scale Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy" [30 hours]
Dec 1999	SEST	"Shocked Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy"
Dec 1999	SEST	"Post-Perihelion Activity of Comet Hale-Bopp at 10 AU"
Dec 1999	SEST	"Extragalactic Observations of C¹⁸O and C¹⁷O"
Nov 1999	OSO 20-m	"Molecular Outflows in Type 1 Seyfert Galaxies"
Jun 1999	ATCA	"An HI Mosaic of the Circinus Galaxy"
Jun 1999	SEST	"The Large Scale Molecular Gas in the Circinus Galaxy"
Dec 1998	SEST	"Circumnuclear Molecular Gas Distribution in NGC 4945"
Nov 1998	OSO 20-m	"Dense Molecular Gas in Northern Seyfert Galaxies"
Oct 1998	SEST	"Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Seyfert Galaxies"
Aug 1998	SEST	"Molecules in NGC 4945 and the Circinus Galaxy"
Jun 1998	SEST	"HCO⁺ and CO in the Small Magellanic Cloud"
Feb 1998	OSO 20-m	"Dense Molecular Gas in Northern Seyfert Galaxies"
Dec 1997	SEST	"Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Seyfert Galaxies"
Jun 1997	SEST	"Molecular Clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud; the N44 region"
Feb 1997	SEST	"Molecular Ions in Large Magellanic Cloud" for A. Heikkilä et al.
Dec 1996	SEST	Assisting Arto Heikkilä with Magellanic Cloud observations
Dec 1995	SEST	Assisting Lars E B Johansson with "Molecular Clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud" & "Molecular Lines in the Magellanic Clouds"