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Jay Gallagher to Serve as Associate US Gemini...(1Jun93) Project Scientist (from the AURA Corporate Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 34, 1 June 1993) AURA is pleased to announce that Jay Gallagher (U. of Wisconsin, Madison) will become the Associate US Gemini Project Scientist on an interim basis until January 1994. In that role, he will work with the US Gemini Project Office at NOAO in Tucson to strengthen US community involvement in the international Gemini Project. In the next few months he will establish vehicles for better informing US astronomers about opportunities for scientific participation in Gemini and the technological progress of the Project. He will also seek to improve communications from the US community back to the Gemini Project by developing mechanisms for receiving comments on Gemini-related scientific or technical issues at the US Gemini Project Office. This Office operates in parallel with national Gemini Offices in the other Gemini partner countries to maintain dialogues between national scientific communities and the Gemini Project. In carrying out these tasks Gallagher will look forward to hearing comments about the Gemini Project from US astronomers and to informing the US community about the Project. You are therefore likely to see him at the AAS and other professional meetings, or find him giving presentations about Gemini. You will also be receiving more written information about the Gemini observatories from the US Gemini Project Office by late summer. Gallagher will maintain his base of operations in Madison and can be contacted on Gemini matters most effectively via e-mail at either the US Gemini Office (usgpo@noao.edu) or Wisconsin (gemini@jayg.astro.wisc.edu). Gallagher will be collaborating with Fred Gillett of NOAO, who is the Acting US Gemini Project Scientist, and with other NOAO staff who are helping with the US Gemini Office. AURA is supporting Gallagher's activities in response to the need of US astronomers to have closer contact with the Gemini Project as it builds two 8-m telescopes with superb imaging capabilities, excellent thermal background characteristics, and effective instruments. Goetz Oertel
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