James Lloyd is developing instrumentation and experimental techniques for the study of extrasolar planets with Adaptive optics and interferometry. He spent 2 years at the South Pole working on the South Pole Infrared Explorer (SPIREX), a 60cm telescope that operated from 1994-1999. This exper...
James Lloyd is developing instrumentation and experimental techniques for the study of extrasolar planets with Adaptive optics and interferometry. He spent 2 years at the South Pole working on the South Pole Infrared Explorer (SPIREX), a 60cm telescope that operated from 1994-1999. This experiment characterized the properties of the South Pole for infrared astronomy and obtained some of the deepest near-infrared images of galaxies. He has developed instrumentation for the Lick laser guide star adaptive optics system, the InfraRed Camera for Adaptive optics at Lick (IRCAL).