Gordon Walker, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Interstellar matter, extra-solar planets, astronomical instruments
NSERC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$60,000
Extra-solar planets and interstellar matter
NSERC · 1999 · Principal investigator
$299,250
Stellar astronomy
NSERC · 1996 · Principal investigator
$219,000

All 14 grants and awards

No publications available.

Interstellar matter, extra-solar planets, astronomical instruments

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$60,000

Extra-solar planets and interstellar matter

Principal investigatorNSERC1999Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$299,250

Stellar astronomy

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$219,000

A versatile CCD controller

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$25,000

Slim thinned spectroscopic CCDs - Thinning, packaging, oxidation and anti-reflection coating; three 4096 X 200 Pixel CCDs

Principal investigatorNSERC1994Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$49,600

Large-aperture liquid-mirror telescope

Co-investigatorNSERC1994Collaborative Project Grants (H)

Principal investigators: Hickson, Paul

$526,000

University of British Columbia Astronomy Lab

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Infrastructure Grants (H)

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$434,000

Astronomical spectroscopy

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$141,000

A slender CCD for spectroscopy

Principal investigatorNSERC1992Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$52,900

GEMINI - Twin 8 metre telescopes

Principal investigatorNSERC1992Collaborative Special Project Grants

Principal investigators: Walker, Gordon

$2,500,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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