Curriculum Vitae John P. Blakeslee National Research Council of Canada Phone: 1-250-363-8103 Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Programs Fax: 1-250-363-0045 5071 West Saanich Road Cell: 1-250-858-1357 Victoria, B.C. V9E 2E7 Email: [email protected] Canada Citizenship: USA Education 1997 Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (supervisor: Prof. John Tonry) 1991 B. A., Physics, University of Chicago (Honors; supervisor: Prof. Donald York) Employment History 2007 – present Astronomer, Senior Research Officer NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 2008 – present Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Physics, University of Victoria 2008 – 2013 Adjunct Professor Washington State University 2005 – 2007 Assistant Professor of Physics Washington State University 2004 – 2005 Research Scientist Johns Hopkins University 2000 – 2004 Associate Research Scientist Johns Hopkins University 1999 – 2000 Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Durham, U.K. 1996 – 1999 Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar California Institute of Technology Fellowships and Awards 2004 Ernest F. Fullam Award for Innovative Research in Astronomy, Dudley Observatory 2003 NASA Certificate for contributions to the success of HST Servicing Mission 3B 1996 – 1999 Sherman M. Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astronomy, Caltech Professional Service 2016 – present Canadian Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Consortium, Co-PI 2014 – present Chair, NOAO Time Allocation Committee (TAC) Extragalactic Panel 2008 – present National Representative, Gemini International Time Allocation Committee (ITAC) 2015 Chair, Local Organizing Committee, triennial Gemini Observatory Science Meeting 2015 Review panel member, Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 23 2014 CFHT Large Program Agency Review Committee (LPARC) 2013 National Science Foundation, AST grant review panel (Galactic Structure) 2010 – 2013 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Science Advisory Council 2012 Review panel member, Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 20 2011 National Science Foundation, AST grant review panel (Cosmology) 2010 – 2011 Canadian National Observatories Time Allocation Committee (CanTAC) 2009 Canadian Space Agency Discipline Working Group on Wide Field Imaging from Space 2006 – 2009 National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) Time Allocation Committee 2004 Review panel member, Hubble Space Telescope, Cycle 13 2001 Review panel member for NASA’s ADP and LTSA grant programs 1999, 2001 External reviewer for the Chilean Research Council (FONDECYT) 1996 – present Referee for ApJ, AJ, ApJ Letters, A&A, Ap&SS, MNRAS, PASP, Nature Professional Affiliations American Astronomical Society; Canadian Astronomical Society; International Astronomical Union. Research Interests Galaxy structure and evolution; supermassive blackholes; fundamental distance scale; large-scale structure; globular cluster populations; cosmology; data analysis methods. 1 John P. Blakeslee – Publications Refereed Publications 177. The Globular Cluster System of the Coma cD Galaxy NGC 4874 from Hubble Space Telescope ACS and WFC3/IR Imaging Cho, H., Blakeslee, J. P., Chies-Santos, A. L., Jee, M. J., Jensen, J. B., Peng, E. W., & Lee, Y.-W. 2016, ApJ, in press (arXiv:1604.01768). 176. The MASSIVE Survey. V. X-ray Halos of the Most Massive Early-type Galaxies in the Nearby Universe Goulding, A. D., Greene, J. E., Ma, C.-P., Veale, M., Bogdan, A., Nyland, K., Blakeslee, J. P., Mc- Connell, N. J., & Thomas, J. 2016, ApJ, in press (arXiv:1604.01764). 175. A 17-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in a Group Galaxy with a Diffuse Core Thomas, J., Ma, C.-P., McConnell, N. J., Greene, J. E., Blakeslee, J. P., & Janish, R. 2016, Nature, 532, 340. 174. The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. The Intrinsic Shapes of Low-luminosity Galaxies in the Core of the Virgo Cluster, and a Comparison with the Local Group S´anchez-Janssen, R., Ferrarese, L., MacArthur, L. A., Cˆot´e,P., Blakeslee, J. P., Cuillandre, J.-C., Duc, P.-A., Durrell, P., Gwyn, S., McConnacchie, A. W., Boselli, A., Courteau, S., Emsellem, E., Mei, S., Peng, E., Puzia, T.H., Roediger, J., Simard, L., Boyer, F., & Santos, M. 2016, ApJ, 820, 69. 173. Evidence for the Rapid Formation of Low-mass Early-type Galaxies in Dense Environments Liu, Y., Peng, E. W., Blakeslee, J. P., Cˆot´e,P., Ferrarese, L., Jord´an, A., Puzia, T. H., Toloba, E., & Zhang, H.-X. 2016, ApJ, 818, 179. 172. Globular Cluster Systems in Brightest Cluster Galaxies. II: NGC 6166 Harris, W. E., Blakeslee, J. P., Whitmore, B. C., Gnedin, O. Y., Geisler, D., & Rothberg, B. 2016, ApJ, 817, 58. 171. The MASSIVE Survey. III. Molecular Gas and a Broken Tully-Fisher Relation in the Most Massive Early-type Galaxies Davis, T. A., Greene, J., Ma, C.-P., Pandya, V., Blakeslee, J. P., McConnell, N., & Thomas, J. 2016, MNRAS, 455, 214. 170. The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XI. Catalog of Globular Cluster Candidates Jord´an, A., Peng, E. W., Blakeslee, J. P., Cˆot´e,P., Eyheramendy, S., & Ferrarese, F. 2015, ApJS, 221, 13. 169. The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Properties of Ultra-compact Dwarfs in the M87, M49, and M60 Regions Liu, C., Peng, E.W., Cˆot´e,P., Ferrarese, L., Jord´an, A., Mihos, J.C., Zhang, H.-X., Mu˜noz, R.P., Puzia, T.H., Lan¸con, A., Gwyn, S., Cuillandre, J.-C., Blakeslee, J. P., Boselli, A., Durrell, P.R., Duc, P.-A., Guhathakurta, P., MacArthur, L.A., Mei, S., S´anchez-Janssen, R., & Xu, H. 2015, ApJ, 812, 34. 168. Measuring Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances with HST WFC3: Calibration and Advice Jensen, J. B., Blakeslee, J. P., Gibson, Z., Lee, H.-C., Cantiello, M., Raimondo, G., Boyer, N., & Cho, H. 2015, ApJ, 808, 91. 167. The MASSIVE Survey. II. Stellar Population Trends Out to Large Radius in Massive Early-type Galaxies Greene, J. E., Janish, R., Ma, C.-P., McConnell, N. J., Blakeslee, J. P., Thomas, J., & Murphy, J. D. 2015, ApJ, 807, 11. 166. A Gemini/GMOS Study of Intermediate Luminosity Early-Type Virgo Cluster Galaxies. I. Globular Cluster and Stellar Kinematics Li, B., Peng, E. W., Zhang, H.-X., Blakeslee, J. P., Cˆot´e,P., Ferrarese, L., Jord´an, A., Liu, C., Mei, S., Puzia, T. H., Takamiya, M., Trancho, G., & West, M. J. 2015, ApJ, 806, 133. 2 165. G2C2 – III. Structural Parameters for Galactic Globular Clusters in SDSS Passbands Vanderbeke, J., De Propris, R., De Rijcke, S., Baes, M., West, M.J., & Blakeslee, J. P. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 2692. 164. The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XII. Stellar Populations and Kinematics of Compact, Low- mass Early-type Galaxies from Gemini GMOS-IFU Spectroscopy Gu´erou, A., Emsellem, E., McDermid, R.M., Cˆot´e,P., Ferrarese, L., Blakeslee, J. P., Durrell, P.R., MacArthur, L.A., Peng, E.W., Cuillandre, J.-C., & Gwyn, S. 2015, ApJ, 804, 70. 163. The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. The Kinematics of Ultra-compact Dwarfs and Globular Clusters in M87 Zhang, H.-X., Peng, E. W., Cˆot´e,P., Liu, C., Ferrarese, L., Cuillandre, J.-C., Caldwell, N., Gwyn, S. D., Jord´an, A., Lan¸con, A., Li, B., Mu˜noz, R. P., Puzia, T.H., Bekki, K., Blakeslee, J. P., Boselli, A., et al. 2015, ApJ, 802, 30. 162. The Initial Mass Function and Star Formation Law in the Outer Disc of NGC 2915 Bruzzese, S.M., Meurer, G.R., Lagos, C.D.P., Elson, E.C., Werk, J.K., Blakeslee, J. P., & Ford, H. 2015, MNRAS, 447, 618. 161. Globular Cluster Systems in Brightest Cluster Galaxies: A Near-universal Luminosity Function? Harris, W.E., Morningstar, W., Gnedin, O.Y., O’Halloran, H., Blakeslee, J. P., Whitmore, B.C., Cˆot´e, P., Geisler, D., Peng, E.W., Bailin, J., Rothberg, B., Cockcroft, R., & Barber DeGraaff, R. 2014, ApJ, 797, 128. 160. The MASSIVE Survey. I. A Volume-Limited Integral-Field Spectroscopic Study of the Most Massive Early-Type Galaxies within 108 Mpc Ma, C.-P., Greene, J.E., McConnell, N., Janish, R., Blakeslee, J. P., Thomas, J., & Murphy, J. D. 2014, ApJ, 795, 158. 159. Characterizing SL2S Galaxy Groups Using the Einstein Radius Verdugo, T., Motta, V., Fo¨ex, G., Forero-Romero, J.E., Mu˜noz, R.P., Pello, R., Limousin, M., More, A., Cabanac, R., Soucail, G., Blakeslee, J. P., Mej´ıa-Narv´aez, A.J., Magris, G., & Fern´andez-Trincado, J.G. 2014, A&A, 571, 65. 158. The Next Generation Virgo Survey. VIII. The Spatial Distribution of Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster Durrell, P.R., Cˆot´e,P., Peng, E.W., Blakeslee, J. P., Ferrarese, L., Mihos, J.C., Puzia, T.H., Lan¸con, A., Liu, C., Zhang, H., Cuillandre, J.-C., McConnachie, A., Jordan, A., Accetta, K., Boissier, S., Boselli, A., Courteau, S., Duc, P.-A., Emsellem, E., Gwyn, S., Mei, S., & Taylor, J.E. 2014, ApJ, 794, 103. 157. The Next Generation Virgo Survey. V. Modeling the Dynamics of M87 with the Made-to-measure Method Zhu, L., Long, R.J., Mao, S., Peng, E.W., Liu, C., Caldwell, N., Li, B., Blakeslee, J. P., Cˆot´e,P., Cuillandre, J.-C., Durrell, P., Emsellem, E., Ferrarese, L., Gwyn, S., Jord´an, A., Lan¸con, A., Mei, S., Mu˜noz, R., & Puzia, T. 2014, ApJ, 792, 59. 156. Globular Clusters of NGC 3115 in the Near-infrared: Demonstrating the Correctness of Two Opposing Scenarios Cantiello, M., Blakeslee, J. P., Raimondo, G., Chies-Santos, A.L., Jennings, Z.G., Norris, M.A., & Kuntschner, H. 2014, A&A, 564, L3. 155. The Next Generation Virgo Survey-Infrared (NGVS-IR). I. A New Near-Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near- Infrared Globular Cluster Selection Tool Mu˜noz, R.P., Puzia, T.H., Lancon, A., Peng, E.W., Cˆot´e,P., Ferrarese, L., Blakeslee, J. P., Mei, S., Cuillandre, J.-C., Hudelot, P., Courteau, S., Duc, P.-A., Balogh, M.L., et al. 2014, ApJS, 210, 4. 154. G2C2 II: Integrated colour-metallicity relations for Galactic Globular Clusters in SDSS passbands Vanderbeke, J., West, M.J., De Propris, R., Peng, E.W., Blakeslee, J.