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Nate McCrady
Assistant Professor
nate.mccrady @ umontana.edu

PhD in Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley 2005
BS in Astronomy, University of Washington, 1999
BS in Physics, University of Washington, 1999

Nate McCrady joined the faculty at UM in 2009 after four years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at UCLA.

Professor McCrady's research involves star formation and the stellar populations of galaxies.  He uses laser guide star adaptive optics technology with 10-meter class ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain high spatial resolution imaging and spectroscopy of young, massive star clusters.

Classes being taught by Professor McCrady, Fall 2009:

Astronomy 363 Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics