Title: Five Years of Keeping it Cool: The Contributions by Gemini Mid-Infrared 
Instrumentation to the Understanding of Massive Star Formation 
Author(s): James M. De Buizer (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy)

Abstract: It has now been just over 5 years since the commissioning of the first 
mid-infrared instrument at Gemini Observatory. I will review the important results 
in the field of massive star formation that others and I have already obtained 
over this short time period using the Gemini telescopes and their mid-infrared 
instruments, T-ReCS and Michelle. Because of the high spatial resolution afforded 
by the large apertures of the Gemini telescopes, we are acquiring images and 
spectra of many massive young stellar objects in unprecedented detail. Spectra 
and images from Gemini have been used in conjunction with Spitzer data to shed 
new light on the observational properties of young massive stellar objects, their 
circumstellar environment, and their outflows. The ramifications of these first 
five years of results from Gemini mid-infrared instruments on our present 
understanding of massive star formation will be discussed.