| 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 |
| Lawton, Brandon | Diffuse interstellar bands in damped Lyman-alpha and starburst galaxies | 2008 | New Mexico State University | GMOS-S | USA |
| Mast, Damian | La region central de M83 | 2008 | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | NIRI/CIRPASS/GMOS-S | Argentina |
| Moerchen, Margaret Marie | Location and origin of dust in circumstellar debris disks: a mid-infrared imaging study | 2008 | University of Florida | TRECS/MICHELLE | USA |
| Norris, Mark Anderson | The formation of early-type galaxies | 2008 | University of Durham | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | UK |
| Riffel, Rogemar A. | Mapeamentotridimensional" do entorno dos buracos negros supermassivos em galáxias Seyfert | 2008 | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | NIFS+ALTAIR/GNIRS | Brazil |
| Scarano, Sérgio | Rotation Curves and Metallicity Gradients of Spiral Galaxies: The Role of the Corotation Radius and New Observations | 2008 | University of Sao Paulo | GMOS-N | Brazil |
| Schaller, Emily Lauren | I. Seasonal changes in Titan's cloud activity. II. Volatile ices on outer solar system objects | 2008 | California Institute of Technology | NIRI+ALTAIR | USA |
| Smith Castelli, Analia | Poblaciones de galaxias en el cumulo de Antlia | 2008 | Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) | GMOS-S | Argentina |
| Smith, Rachel | The Evolution of Debris Disk Systems: Constraints from Theory and Observation | 2008 | University of Edinburgh | MICHELLE/TRECS | UK |
| Trichas, Markos | Multi-wavelength surveys of extreme infrared populaitons | 2008 | Imperial College of London | GMOS-N | UK |
| Davis, Saul | Progress in globular cluster research: insights from NGC 6397 and Messier 4 | 2008 | University of British Columbia | GMOS-S | Canada |
| Blake, Cullen H. | Ultracool dwarfs and their companions | 2009 | Harvard University | PHOENIX | USA |
| Bordalo, Vinícius | Internal Kinematics and The L-sigma Relation of the HII Galaxies | 2009 | Observatorio Nacional | GMOS-N | Brazil |
