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Jim

• SA Job closes tomorrow. Closing in on 80 applicants.

  • Committee meeting early next week for first down select

  • Might hire 2 out of this pool. Not explicitly approved yet.

• Jim has to do quarterly reviews of everyone who works under him

• Summit reorganization announced this week

  • Process for scheduling tasks on the summit will change.

  • Be ready for whatever the new process is

  • Joe Killian will be new summit lead (will not lead ETs, now they report to Josh LaPinta)

  • Still no instrument group on summit

  • Tod Von Bockmann will be scheduler

  • Has been announced at summit

• Shui is working on instrument and guider checkouts

  • Jim will try to find out how we can be involved

• Jim looking at how we can coordinate

  • Next SA meeting will have roundtable of what we are working on.

• Get engineering requests to Carolyn. Both short term and next semester.

1:09

Words

John

• Email from Rich about recent executive orders and impact on observatory. Our operational funding is unaffected.

• Some NSF funding will see schedule changes

• Power outage on Saturday was learning experience, expect more outages

• SSC is at end of February, Jim will circulate agenda

  • Send John instrument updates that need to share

  • Obs report will be “lean” due to KWFI and LRIS2 reviews

• Board meeting here on Feb 27-28

• Working on 5 year planning.

  • TLT did a lot of heavy lifting on informing plan.

  • Working toward prioritized list for instrument projects. Talking to all members at town halls and meetings.

  • Full version to be delivered to board at November meeting

  • No major changes to operations budget in plan, focus is on other section of budget

• John in San Diego for NASA review panel next week

1:20

Post-Pier Repair

All

• If pier repair finishes on time, there will be ~10 days to fill. Ideas?

  • HIRES vs. KPF

  • Josh: KPF tip tilt re-comissioning (if parts arrive in time)

• • Josh+Leo: MOSFIRE CSU and FCS investigations (mostly during day)

    • Will need to install MOSFIRE to cass and install secondary

    • Cass will be empty during pier repair

  • Grant: Check defining points and rotator alignment

  • Grant: Check HIRES illumination pattern using bright star at night using NVGs

• Identify ideas and pick best ones to pursue/plan at next SA meeting

1:33

Cherry Blossom Festival

Jim

• Saturday is festival. Josh and John P will be doing solar viewing, Jim will be there as well.

• Another event Feb 22. NASA at My Library

  • Asked for solar viewing

  • Leo is interested

1:35

Power outage procedure

All

Gaps in https://www.keck.hawaii.edu/draw/CARA/9114/9114-CA0501.pdf

• There are subtleties between power is out, we expect power to be out for a while, power is out and we are abandoning summit, etc.

• Category 1: power is out and we need this done immediately

  • Other decision trees should be enumerated.

  • Factor in UNO considerations, what if no one at the summit.

• Jim to ask John or Leslie for editable version, John might have redlined version we haven’t seen

• Kyle: some systems should be configured to set how they comes back. Computers and PDUs have settings about what to do when power is restored.

• Everyone look at instruments you have primary or secondary responsibility for and decide on possible changes to this doc.

• Carolyn: K1 instrument cooling should now come back on after power is restored

1:52

Visibility of instrument alarms

Carlos

• Recent incidents including a NIRC2 CCR failure which didn’t trigger an alarm and a DEIMOS detector warm up

• Kevin T mentioned DCS keywords corresponding to EPICS channels. 15 keywords for each instrument to send alarms to CSS alarm handler.

  • CSS alarm handler is in error during day, so useless during the day

• UNO Event Notifier?

  • Designed. Built by Caleb. UNO deprioritized it.

• Need to separate decision making on whether there is an alarm and how we distribute that info to people. CSS can do the former if we have a path to set it from the decision making entity.

• Departure screen only checks instrument CCRs which are scheduled for tonight (we think)

• EMIR and old keywords: old keywords don’t like being monitored constantly (e.g. LRIS and MOSFIRE)

2:30

Pau!

Next lead = Leo Alcorn