CFHT will not renew its contract to service ASIVA or MASS/DIMM when due in 2 years.
MASS/DIMM
Any changes?
ASIVA
Do we want anything beyond time series of thermal IR difference images?
Discussion topics
Time
Item
Presenter
Notes
1:02
Words from Randy
Randy
All Staff Meeting yesterday + email about changed in OID
was a surprise. Situation with Grant is changing, will do more work directly on instruments in the future.
Remains to be seen what that role will be.
We may be able to shape it.
Won’t change Instrument Scientist role or commissioning roles we play
Grant will be working under John O’Meara and more with us.
New to Randy as well.
Kyle: what motivated transition?
Randy doesn’t know any more than what was in emails and all staff.
Grant will be in a position to help with instrument engineer position
Jim: overlaps with Instrument Engineer and Project Engineer/Manager roles?
How does this fit in with hires?
Josh: overlap with Marc’s role with Instrument Task List?
Randy: Can offload and/or coordinate with Marc
Josh: will be be on summit or at HQ?
Randy: We don’t know.
Will be part of “Instrument Program Office” with Marc
Decision was at DAC level (Director Advisory something-or-other) not at council level
We should do a get together … scheduling as always is hard
CI Projects: will be well resourced, take advantage of it
Jim: where are hours coming from
Randy: off the top, but low priority CIs are cut to balance if they have high demand resources
Carlos: why was there precipitous drop in CI effort in last few years?
Randy: Not allocated ahead of time, so CIs came in after projects got resources. Hence the strategy of setting aside CI resources first.
Carlos: how should we do observing support after June 1?
Randy: do it as you think best. If observers are at HQ, do afternoon and start of night in person – that is preferred model.
Clarification from Randy and John: When observers are at HQ, support should be at HQ.
Non-support work on normal schedule is expected to be at HQ
Rosalie: air circulation in Kohala was bad recently, will that be fixed?
1:35
Science Software Tasks
Luca
Luca had discussion with Jeff on how to proceed. There are ~600 hours allocated in this FY, only ~15% used, so we have resources which are unused. Mostly Kyle and some Matt.
We should make use of that allocation.
List is not closed, keep adding ideas
Notes on discussion captured in SSS board
We selected several projects for development in this FY
2:15
ASIVA + MASS/DIMM future
Jim
The MASS/DIMM (former TMT site testing equipment) and ASIVA camera will no longer be supported by CFHT in a couple of years
UNO will be adding an all sky camera (visible), level of software support is TBD. Not sure how much will be implemented under UNO