| Gharanfoli, Soheila | Studying low-redshift universe through observation of Damped Lyman-alpha quasar absorbers | 2009 | University of South Carolina | Hokupaa | USA |
| Knutson, Heather | Portraits of distant worlds: characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets | 2009 | Harvard University | NIRI | USA |
| Lavigne, Jean-Francois | Imagerie a haut contraste et caracterisation d'exoplanetes par la spectroscopie integrale de champ | 2009 | Universite de Montreal | NIFS+ALTAIR | Canada |
| Loubser, Susan | Kinematics and stellar populations in brightest cluster galaxies | 2009 | University of Central Lancashire | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | UK |
| Melis, Carl Anthony | The life, death, and composition of exoterrestrial planets around intermediate mass stars | 2009 | University of California, Los Angeles | NIRI/MICHELLE/TRECS | USA |
| Miszalski, Brent | New galactic planetary nebulae and the role of central star binarity | 2009 | Macquarie University | GMOS-S | Australia |
| Spolaor, Max | Radial gradients in elliptical galaxies | 2009 | Swinburne University of Technology | GMOS-S | Australia |
| Teodoro, Mairan Macedo | Multi-spectral analysis of the cyclic events of Eta Carinae | 2009 | University of San Paulo | CIRPASS | Brazil |
| Thanjavur, Karunananth | Cosmic applications of Gravitational Lens Assisted Spectroscopy (GLAS) | 2009 | University of Victoria | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | Canada |
| Vilardell, Francesc | Determination of the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy using variable stars | 2009 | Universitat de Barcelona | GMOS-N | Other |
| Walker, Emma Suzanne | Quantatitive analysis of type Ia supernova spectra and implications for cosmology | 2009 | University of Oxford | GMOS-N | UK |
| Weidmann, Walter | Caracteristicas fisicas comparativas de nebulosas planetarias con estrellas centrales ricas y pobres en hidrogeno | 2009 | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | GMOS-S | Argentina |
| Woodley, Kristin | Ages, metallicties, alpha-enhancement, and kinematics of the globular cluster system of NGC 5128 | 2009 | McMaster University | GMOS-S | Canada |
| Alves-Brito, Alan | Aglomerados Blobulares Ricos em Metais Traçadores da Evolução Química da Galáxia | 2008 | University of Sao Paulo | GMOS-N | Brazil |
| Bitner, Martin Allan, Jr. | High resolution spectroscopy of old stars and young disks | 2008 | The University of Texas at Austin | TEXES | USA |
| Doering, Ryan Lee | Parameterizing the dust around Herbig Ae/Be stars: Multiwavelength imaging, radiative transfer modeling, and near-infrared instrumentation | 2008 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | TRECS | USA |
| Foley, Ryan Joseph | Type IA supernova evolution and dark energy | 2008 | University of California, Berkeley | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Fu, Hai | Extended emission-line regions: Remnants of quasar superwinds? | 2008 | University of Hawaii | GMOS-N | USA |
| Jiang, Linhua | Evolution of the quasar population at high redshift | 2008 | The University of Arizona | GNIRS/NIRI | USA |
| Lagos, Patricio | Distribuição espacial das populações estelares e o meio interestelar nas galáxias HII | 2008 | Observatorio Nacional | GMOS-S | Brazil |
