From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Mon Jul 27 09:19:51 2020 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:19:51 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ESO considers suspension of P107 call for proposal References: Message-ID: <8E9DFF2E-D0E1-44F5-9E1A-1C51DD3A0150@sydney.edu.au> Good morning Australian astronomers, Please forward this to other interested parties. You would have seen the following email (forwarded by our ESO Council representative Matthew Colless over the weekend). ESO is contemplating the suspension of the P107 call for proposals. ESO has asked the Users Committee (UC) representatives to collate our community's reaction to this. As your ESO UC representative, I invite you to let me know if you have any feedback. While I have my own personal opinion about this, the best way for me to appropriately represent the breadth of opinions within our community on the matter is if I hear from you. So please feel free to contact me. Also, the recommendations from April?s UC meeting should be public sometime in August. I will be in touch once this is the case to let you all know and give a more thorough update. Clear Skies! Best regards, Caroline -- Dr Caroline Foster ASTRO3D Fellow & ESO Users Committee Representative Pronouns: she/her/hers The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Sydney Institute for Astrophysics 360B, A28 | The University of Sydney | NSW | +61 286 276 411 | +61 430 453 532 caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au | www.carofoster.com Usual office days: Monday and Friday (@USyd), Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (until 2:30pm) INSPIRED ? the Campaign to support the University of Sydney sydney.edu.au/inspired CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. Begin forwarded message: From: ESO Electronic Newsletter > Subject: ESO Special Announcement Date: 25 July 2020 at 2:57:53 am AEST To: > [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Nnz6CL7EwMfvZnQDCq3YWg?domain=eso.org] European Southern Observatory Special announcement 24 Jul 2020 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_b0XCNLJyQURGmjqhRto24?domain=eso.org] Possible suspension of P107 Call for Proposals 24 Jul 2020: The exceptional global conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic have deeply affected science operations at ESO observatories, causing an unprecedented backlog of observations for high-priority programmes, including Large Programmes. ESO is studying a variety of measures to complete those programmes at the earliest possible time once operations are resumed, which may require the exceptional suspension of the Call for Proposals for Period 107 (April-October 2021). While the decision is not firm yet, researchers preparing or planning to submit proposals for Period 107 should take into account that such suspension is a real possibility. Read more ________________________________ ________________________________ [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ta1VCP7LAXflkE31hrwekD?domain=eso.org] [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RiCjCQnMBZfxyjo1u9CFNd?domain=eso.org] [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MkG2CROND2uVzq5Di0w3_R?domain=eso.org] [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/22aRCVARKgCvRognCrbXmp?domain=eso.org] [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/He1kCWLVXkUkWmDLhBPvoj?domain=eso.org] ________________________________ View in browser ESO User Portal | ESO Press Releases You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the ESO Science Newsletter. 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URL: From Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au Mon Jul 27 20:36:19 2020 From: Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au (Cathryn Trott) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:36:19 +0000 Subject: [ASA] STA: Indigenous STEM Network - callout to STA member societies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, Please see below the request from Science and Technology Australia, of which the ASA is a member organisation, calling for expressions of interest in an Indigenous STEM Professionals network. As you will also see, STA has been developing a STA Reconciliation Action Plan, with an engaged working group, and we look forward to seeing the outcome of that important work. Regards, Cathryn _______________________________________________________ Cathryn Trott Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow President, Astronomical Society of Australia ________________________________ From: Misha Schubert Subject: Indigenous STEM Network - callout to STA member societies Dear Cathryn, I am pleased to let you know that STA is well advanced on work towards an inaugural STA Reconciliation Action Plan. This work has been led by STA?s RAP Working Group. It comprises Quandamooka First Nations man and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance Chair Professor Chris Matthews, Kamilaroi man and Deadly Science founder Corey Tutt, STA?s equity, diversity and inclusion committee co-chair Associate Professor Sumeet Walia, EDI committee member and CEO at AeRO Sam Moskwa, and me as CEO. We look forward to sharing the RAP with you once the formal processes are finalised with Reconciliation Australia. One of the key aspirations articulated to STA by Chris, Corey and Canberra-based Kamilaroi water scientist, PhD candidate and Associate Professor Brad Moggridge has been for us to help support the creation of an Indigenous STEM Professionals network. A first step for us to ask STA member societies for your help in this process. We would be grateful if you could do a callout to your Indigenous members about this opportunity. We are hopeful that you may have Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander members who are STEM professionals and would like to be part of these formative discussions or would be happy to be contacted about this initiative. If so, we would ask if your society might be able to seek permission from those members for their contact details to be provided to us at STA so we can share them with Chris, Corey and Brad. We would then look to explore how this group might be gathered virtually to start a grassroots Indigenous-led conversation about this aspiration and next steps. If you could aim to go out to your members and come back to STA (via this email address) with names and contact details to STA by Monday August 10, we would be incredibly grateful to you. An email and a phone number for each person would be ideal. Many thanks in advance for your strong support of this initiative. Warm regards, Misha Misha Schubert Chief Executive Officer P: 02 6257 2891 M: 0421 612 351 PO Box 259, Canberra City, ACT 2601 E: misha.schubert at sta.org.au [STA-Logo-WEBSITE-80x] We work flexibly at Science & Technology Australia. If you receive an email from me outside normal business, I am sending it at that time as it suits me. I?m not expecting you to read or reply until your normal business hours. [https://sta.my.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?oid=00D7F000000rLRv&esid=0187F00000H81gx] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From James.Green at csiro.au Tue Jul 28 11:39:09 2020 From: James.Green at csiro.au (Green, Jimi (CASS, Kensington WA)) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 01:39:09 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Reminder: Parkes community update workshop August 4th 2020 Message-ID: <64CCA74B-739E-4084-AB8F-8EF81C94B234@csiro.au> Dear All, As a reminder we have an online Parkes community update workshop next Tuesday, 4th August, 1100?1300 AEST / 0900-1100 AWST to discuss the Parkes Science Case, the Ultra-Wideband High (UWH) proposal and receiver rationalisation. The agenda is: 0900 AWST / 1100 AEST Overview of Science Case, UWH, Cryo-PAF and receiver rationalisation 0930 AWST / 1130 AEST Q&A 0945 AWST / 1145 AEST Update on Breakthrough Listen progress and data availability 1000 AWST / 1200 AEST Brief presentation on case for lead of UWH LIEF 1005 AWST / 1205 AEST Spacecraft Tracking with Parkes 1015 AWST / 1215 AEST VLBI with Parkes 1025 AWST / 1225 AEST Spectropolarimetry with Parkes 1035 AWST / 1235 AEST Discussion of all of the above & coordination of interested LIEF proposal participants 1100 AWST / 1300 AEST Finish To join the meeting please register here (if you have not already done so): https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4fTFCZY1NqiEVVyYuz1V_R?domain=forms.gle and I will send the remote login details later this week. For those that cannot make it we will aim to record the workshop, and post both the video and the presentations online, Associated documents: Science Case: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uJiUC1WLPxc1DDKXhG-lg9?domain=parkes.atnf.csiro.au Receiver Rationalisation: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5nSVC2xMQzivJJAQUBm6TY?domain=parkes.atnf.csiro.au Kind regards, Jimi Dr. Jimi Green Parkes Senior System Scientist, CASS Group Leader CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science james.green at csiro.au | 08 6436 8879 ARRC Building, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151 CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present. CSIRO Australia?s National Science Agency | csiro.au From: "Green, Jimi (CASS, Kensington WA)" Date: Monday, 22 June 2020 at 9:59 am To: "asa at mailman.sydney.edu.au" Subject: Parkes future science case and community workshop Dear All, As part of ATNF strategy planning we have developed a first draft for a Parkes Science Case for the next decade, as we approach SKA operations. This draft has so far been compiled from previous workshops, Australia Telescope User Committee meeting discussions and technology funding proposals. The intention is to now gather community input over the coming 6 weeks to iterate the document ahead of having a workshop at the beginning of August. This workshop is intended to enable discussion of the science case, together with two other aspects of Parkes operations: the receiver fleet rationalisation and the science case for a high frequency ultra-wide-bandwidth receiver. The draft case can be found here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uJiUC1WLPxc1DDKXhG-lg9?domain=parkes.atnf.csiro.au The (online) workshop, scheduled for the 4th August, nominally 1100-1500 AEST, will have the following objectives: * Review the Science case (including identifying whether there is science that will drive Parkes during 2020-2030 missing from the current draft) * Establish the headline science objectives for an ultra-wide bandwidth high frequency receiver, as well as bringing together the interested parties to establish a lead University (and partners) for an ARC LIEF proposal for this receiver * Review the receiver rationalisation process following the receipt of proposal submissions for the OCT2020 semester (details here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5nSVC2xMQzivJJAQUBm6TY?domain=parkes.atnf.csiro.au) * Provide updates to the community on the Cryogenically cooled Phased Array Feed (?Cryo-PAF?) design work and the availability of Breakthrough Listen data for the community The intention is to have submitted talks from those interested in contributing and time for discussion, if you are interested in attending please complete this expression of interest form: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4fTFCZY1NqiEVVyYuz1V_R?domain=forms.gle In the interim, please contact me directly if you wish to provide input or thoughts in advance of the workshop, Kind regards, Jimi Dr. Jimi Green Parkes Senior System Scientist, CASS Group Leader CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science james.green at csiro.au | 08 6436 8879 ARRC Building, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151 CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. 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You can currently read more about the Optical Data Centre here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/R30KCnx1jnizQrVKC9pIfi?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au This release is available on Data Central (as version 1.11) and can be found at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DafDCoV1kpfMJ6mBuzeIat?domain=datacentral.org.au New services and features include the following: * A Simple Spectrum Viewer embedded as part of the Single Object Viewer https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xL0TCp81lrtGPpZvFYwNRH?domain=datacentral.org.au * An IVOA-compliant Simple Image Access service https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/c02oCq71mwfDGJvzUEaJjr?domain=datacentral.org.au * The MARZ redshift and spectrum tool https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/owkuCr81nytpX4O1cjZdAX?domain=datacentral.org.au * Private Team Data Access: request a new team via https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sW91Cvl1rKiGorZ2F54I26?domain=teams.datacentral.org.au New data will follow shortly! Other features and services currently under active development include: * An IVOA-compliant Simple Spectrum Access service * Lens proposal system integration into the Data Central ecosystem * Automated data reduction pipelines If there is feature that you?d like to see in the ODC, please submit a Feature request here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/i5UPCwV1vMf7XgnAhx4eBm?domain=datacentral.org.au new features will be discussed at the Science Advisory Committee meetings held six-monthly (see https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ysaCCxngwOfyKPj9hgRlLc?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au). ODC received grant funding from the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL). Thanks, Simon [Data Central] Simon O'Toole ? Senior Research Systems Engineer ? Data Central Project Scientist datacentral.org.au ? 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