| ACSIS |
Auto-Correlation Spectrometer and Imaging System |
| ALMA |
Atacama Large Millimetre Array |
| Altair |
ALTitude conjugate Adaptive optics for the InfraRed |
| CADC |
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre |
| CANSERV |
Canadian Service Observing Program |
| CFHT |
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope |
| CFHT-IR |
Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Infared |
| CGO |
Canadian Gemini Office |
| CGPS |
Canadian Galactic Plan Survey |
| CGSSC |
Canadian Gemini Steering Committee |
| CIRPASS |
Cambridge Infrared Panoramic Survey Spectrograph |
| CSA |
Canadian Space Agency |
| C-TAG |
Canadian Time Allocation Group |
| c.v. |
Curriculum Vitæ (R´sumé) |
| DAO |
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory |
| DRAO |
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory |
| EVLA |
Expanded Very Large Array |
| ESO |
European Southern Observatory |
| GMOS |
Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph |
| GNIRS |
Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph |
| GSC |
Gemini Science Committee |
| HIA |
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics |
| HROS |
High Resolution Optical Spectrograph |
| Hwy |
Highway |
| IfA |
Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii |
| IG |
Instrument Group |
| IRAF |
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility |
| IRAM |
Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique |
| JAC |
Joint Astronomy Centre |
| JCMT |
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
| JRASC |
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| LAR |
Large Adaptive Reflector |
| LRP |
Long Range Plan for Canadian Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| LRPP |
Long Range Planning Panel |
| MAG |
Millimetre Astronomy Group |
| NIRI |
Near Infrared Imager |
| NRC |
National Research Council Canada |
| NSERC |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council |
| OSCIR |
University of Florida Observatory Spectrometer Camera for the InfraRed |
| PATT |
Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| PIT |
Phase I Tool |
| QUIRC |
QUick InfRared Camera |
| SCUBA |
Sub-Millimetre Common User Bolometer Array |
| SED |
Spectral Energy Distributions |
| T-ReCS |
Thermal-Region Camera System |
| UBC |
University of British Columbia |
| UVic |
University of Victoria |
| VLBI |
Very Large Baseline Interferometry |
| VLOT |
Very Large Optical Telescope |
| WFS |
WaveFront Sensors |
| WIRCAM |
Wide-Field Infrared Camera |
| XLT |
eXtra Large Telescope |
