Jonathan P. Gardner

Astrophysics Science Division
NASA/GSFC
Code 665, Laboratory for Observational Cosmology
Greenbelt, MD 20771

tel: 301-286-3938
fax: 301-286-1753
e-mail: jonathan.p.gardner @ nasa.gov

Present Position

Chief of the Laboratory for Observational Cosmology

Deputy Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope

Brief Bio

Chief of the Laboratory for Observational Cosmology, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, April 2006 to present.

Astrophysicist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, March 1999 to April 2006.

Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, April 2004 to October 2004.

Assistant Scientist, A.U.R.A., Hubble Space Telescope STIS Project, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, September 1996 to February 1999.

NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow/Senior Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Durham, October 1992 to August 1996.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 1992

M.S., Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 1988

A.B., Astronomy and Astrophysics, magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1986

Research Interests

Galaxy Evolution
Dark Energy

Current Projects

James Webb Space Telescope

Observational Cosmology Laboratory

Selected Publications

See a complete list of publications.

Gardner, J. P., et al. 2006, Space Science Reviews, 123, 4, 485, "The James Webb Space Telescope."

Giavalisco, M. et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L93. "The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results from Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging."

de Mello, D. F., Gardner, J. P., Dahlen, T., Conselice, C. J., Grogin, N., & Koekemoer, 2004, ApJ, 600, L151. "The Nature of Near-UV Selected Objects in the Chandra Deep Field South."

Gardner, J. P., Brown, T. M., & Ferguson, H. C. 2000, ApJ, 542, L79, "Ultraviolet Galaxy Counts from STIS Observations of the Hubble Deep Fields."

Gardner, J. P. & Satyapal, S. 2000, AJ, 119, 2589, "Counts and Sizes of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South: Implications for the Next Generation Space Telescope."

Gardner, J. P. et al. 2000, AJ, 119, 486, "The Hubble Deep Field South: STIS Imaging."

Gardner, J. P. 1998, PASP, 110, 291. “An Extendable Galaxy Number Count
Model.”

Gardner, J. P., Sharples, R. M., Frenk, C. S., & Carrasco, B. E. 1997, ApJ, 480, L99. “A Wide-Field K-band Survey. The Luminosity Function of Galaxies.”

Gardner, J. P. 1995, ApJ, 452, 538. “A Near-Infrared Faint Galaxy Survey.”

Cowie, L. L., Gardner, J. P., Hu, E. M., Songaila, A., Hodapp, K.–W., & Wainscoat, R. J. 1994, ApJ, 434, 114. “The Hawaii K-Band Galaxy Survey. I: Deep K Band Imaging.”

Gardner, J. P., Cowie, L. L., & Wainscoat, R. J. 1993, ApJ, 415, L9. “Galaxy Number Counts From K=10 to K=23.”

Lilly, S. J., Cowie, L. L., & Gardner, J. P. 1991, ApJ, 369, 79. “A Deep Imaging and Spectroscopic Survey of Faint Galaxies.”