Tracy Huard is an observational astronomer whose research interests include star and planet formation,
molecular clouds, and interstellar dust. His work primarily utilizes infrared observations from
space-based facilities, such as the Hubble Space Telescope and
Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as ground-based
facilities at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO),
the MMT Observatory, and
Carnegie Observatories. Additionally, as part of the
UMD-NOAO collaboration, he helps with development
of data processing pipelines for the MOSAIC (optical) and
NEWFIRM (near-infrared) imagers at NOAO.
Before joining the University of Maryland in 2007, Tracy Huard received his Ph.D. in Physics from
Vanderbilt University in 2000 and held several postdoctoral
fellowships at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
He is a member of the Cores-to-Disks,
Gould's Belt, and
Spitzer Legacy teams, and is
an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory at
Columbia University.