1:03
Words from Randy
Randy
Good news: Sherry has become official instrument scientist for OSIRIS
Revisit description of Instrument Scientist role
Sherry is also being promoted to SA2! and celebrating 5 year anniversary!
SSC Meeting
Lots of positive feedback from SSC members
Room for improvement? What can we do better?
Andrew is in charge of SysAdmin and possible videoconferencing improvements.
Can slides be made public for those that miss or want to read details?
Randy: all SAs should have login info for SSC information. Not clear we all have that. Randy will ask Megan to give us access.
Post instrument reports publicly? Maybe not, slides built for a specific audience. Think about this, but table it for now.
Randy will post final pdf on Slack channel ssc2022
SSC meeting page: https://keckobservatory.org/science-steering-committee/
Upcoming Organizational Effectiveness Meeting (April 5-6)
Reps from observing support/this group: Josh, Rosalie, Randy, Carolyn, Kyle
Give input to those people.
Think about observing modes, operational modes, queue (KPF), community culture changes, etc.
Jim: Organizational Effectiveness or Operational Effectiveness?
Hilton suggested increased staff count?
Randy: yes, organizational, but we have operational expertise
Kyle: “SAs are tip of the spear” interfacing with astronomers/users
Randy: tremendous tension between operations and development right now, especially in AO
Can we share meeting “homework” / reading material? Yes.
Randy will forward that email to SA group.
1:34
NASA representative for SSC
Marc
Tom Green is stepping down, looking for person to replace him as NASA rep
Has been on SSC for many years
If we have names to suggest, Marc can suggest them
Jim: someone from NIKUG? Overlap or move from one to the other?
Is a science area underrepresented? Solar system? Extragalactic?