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NOAO Gemini Science Center Staff and Organization

NOAO Gemini Science Center Staff:

• NOAO Gemini Science Center Director: Verne Smith
• U.S. Gemini Project Manager: Verne Smith
• U.S. Gemini Program Scientist: Ken Hinkle
• U.S. Gemini Project Engineer: Mark Trueblood
• NGSC Press Officer: Doug Isbell
• NGSC Administrative Support: Sally Adams

NGSC Instrument Scientists & Contacts

US Gemini Science Advisory Committee:

The NOAO Gemini Science Center meets semi-annually with its community-based advisory council, the U.S. Gemini Science Advisory Committee (US Gemini SAC), to discuss the US perspective on all matters that bear on the scientific quality and productivity of the Gemini Telescopes. The current membership for the US Gemini SAC is listed below.

• Karl Gebhardt (Chair), University of Texas at Austin, gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu
• Verne Smith (Vice Chair), NOAO Gemini Science Center, vsmith@noao.edu
• Timothy Beers, Michigan State University, beers@pa.msu.edu
• Laird Close, Steward Observatory, lclose@as.arizona.edu
• Dan Jaffe, University of Texas at Austin, dtj@astro.as.utexas.edu
• Michael Liu, University of Hawaii, mliu@ifa.hawaii.edu
• Angela Speck, University of Missouri, speckan@missouri.edu
• Nicole Vogt, New Mexico State University, nicole@nmsu.edu

Gemini Science Committee:

The Gemini Science Committee meets once, or sometimes twice, a year. It is responsible for advising the Gemini Observatory Management on Science Requirements. The current US members of this committee are:

• Tim Beers, Michigan State University, beers@pa.msu.edu
• Nancy Levenson, University of Kentucky, levenson@pa.uky.edu
• Henry Roe, Lowell Observatory, hroe@lowell.edu
• Chris Packham, University of Florida, packham@astro.ufl.edu
• Verne Smith (ex oficio, Chair of the OWG), NOAO, vsmith@noao.edu

The Gemini Observatory is overseen by the Gemini Board of Directors, with representatives from each of the Gemini Partner Countries. The U.S. Members of the Gemini Board are appointed by the National Science Foundation. Currently, the U.S. Board members are:

• D. Clemens (Boston U.)
• S. Oey (U. Michigan)
• W. van Citters (NSF)
• C. Woodward (U. Minnesota)

The Gemini Observatory is supported by the National Project Offices in each of the Gemini Partner Countries. The Project Offices of the other Gemini Partner countries are linked below.

• Argentina
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Chile
• United Kingdom

The International Gemini Observatory

The Schommer Educational Fund

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The NGSC represents U.S. scientific, technical, and instrumentation interests in the international community of the Gemini project. The NGSC is a division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO).

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