From skymapper at anu.edu.au Tue Jun 6 12:22:24 2017 From: skymapper at anu.edu.au (Christopher Onken (for SkyMapper)) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:22:24 +1000 Subject: [ASA] SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey DR1 Message-ID: <593611E0.1060204@anu.edu.au> Dear colleagues, the SkyMapper Team is pleased to announce that Data Release 1 (DR1) from the Southern Sky Survey is now available for use by Australian astronomers at http://skymapper.anu.edu.au. DR1 covers more than 98% of the Southern sky in the six SkyMapper filters (/uvgriz/), and includes more than 2.3 billion detections from nearly 70,000 /Shallow Survey/ images. The detections have been merged into a mean photometry catalogue of over 300 million unique objects, complete to ~17.5 ABmag, and pre-matched against Gaia, Pan-STARRS1, GALEX, WISE, 2MASS, UCAC4 and APASS. Catalogue access (through Cone Search and TAP/ADQL) and image cutouts are available via the website and through Virtual Observatory tools like TOPCAT and Aladin (see http://skymapper.anu.edu.au/how-to-access/). Australian astronomers initially have exclusive access to DR1, after which the data will become available to researchers worldwide. Please also note the authorship and publication policy for DR1 data, available at http://skymapper.anu.edu.au/policies. More information on the survey and DR1 are available at the website . Future data releases will include the deeper observations of the /Main Survey/, as well as enhanced coverage from the /Shallow Survey/. Feedback and questions may be directed to the Team at skymapper at anu.edu.au . - The SkyMapper Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.parkinson at uq.edu.au Fri Jun 9 15:06:13 2017 From: d.parkinson at uq.edu.au (David Parkinson) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 05:06:13 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Early Career Researcher (ECR) Chapter of the ASA - Steering Committee Elections Message-ID: <6EA8E1EE-6944-4B57-BD6F-D74B27B296F7@uq.edu.au> Dear all, The Early Career Researcher Chapter of the ASA is inviting ECR Chapter Members to nominate for a number of positions on the Chapter Steering Committee. The Chapter is active in promoting and assisting the career development of early to mid-career researchers in the Australian astronomy community. The goals of the chapter are: * Inform the members about opportunities for professional training and support * Provide training for the members in areas of professional development * Connect the members with each other, and also with senior researcher mentors, providing a support network * Acting as an advocacy and representation body for its members The ECR chapter has been active since 2013. Over that period it has organised activities that have been beneficial to our ECR members, including three workshops (2012, 2014 and 2016), the ?Meet-a-Mentor? session at the annual ASA meeting (co-organised with the Diversity in Astronomy Chapter), and a mentoring scheme, partnering senior mentors with postdocs and finishing students. The ECR Chapter is run by a Steering Committee who play a leading role in devising and implementing initiatives to fulfil the Chapter?s goals. The Committee consists of a Chair, five Steering Committee members, a student representative and a senior representative. There is also an ASA council representative, who is ex-officio unless they are also elected to the committee. Terms are held for two years (full representatives) and one year (student representative and senior representative). We are now inviting nominations for four positions, which are chair (replacing Sarah Martell), student representative, and three ordinary committee members. These positions are open to all Chapter members, except for the student representative (open to students only). Existing Steering Committee members are welcome to renominate if they wish. The election schedule is as follows: - call for nominations: 9-23 June - election period: 26 June - 6 July - results announced: 7 July - new positions commence: 10 July David Parkinson will once again be the returning officer for this election, so all nominations should go to his university email (d.parkinson at uq.edu.au). Each nomination must include a brief paragraph summarising your interest in the position and how you envisage to contribute to the broad goals of the Chapter. Please note that this information will be made available to voters. Kind regards, David Parkinson - ECR chapter steering committee immediate past chair and returning officer on behalf of the ECR Chapter steering committee. David Parkinson d.parkinson at uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: