| Bursick, Shelly K. | Two multicolor surveys for quasars at redshifts greater than 4.5 | 2009 | University of Arkansas | GMOS-S | USA |
| 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 |
| Bussmann, Robert Shane | The nature of dust-obscured galaxies at z~2 | 2010 | University of Arizona | NIRI | USA |
| Bate, Nicholas Frazer | Quasar microimaging | 2010 | University of Melbourne | GMOS-S | Australia |
| Beifiori, Alessandra | Dynamics induced by the central supermassive black holes in galaxies | 2010 | University of Padova (Italy) | NIRI+ALTAIR | Other |
| Bibby, Joanne | Wolf-Rayet stars as the progenitors of type Ib/c supernovae | 2010 | University of Sheffield | GMOS-N | UK |
| Cottis, Christopher Euan | BALQSOs in SDSS: On the absence of Observational Evidence for Ly-??N V line-locking and a discussion of the physical conditions within BAL outflows | 2010 | University of Leicester | GMOS-N | UK |
| Cucchiara, Antonino | Gamma-ray burst afterglows as probes of their host galaxies and the cosmos | 2010 | The Pennsylvania State University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S/NIRI | USA |
