1 INTRODUCTION

2 IDENTIFYING T DWARF CANDIDATES

2.1 Initial Sample Selection

3 FOLLOW-UP PHOTOMETRY

3.1 Near Infrared Photometry

3.2 Optical Photometry

3.3 Photometric Results

4 SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS

5 T DWARF PROPERTIES

5.1 Searching for the Lowest $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ Objects

6 T DWARF NUMBERS

7 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK