[ASA] ESO considers suspension of P107 call for proposal

[Caroline Foster]

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
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Dr Caroline Foster
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From: ESO Electronic Newsletter <esoenews at eso.org<mailto:esoenews at eso.org>>
Subject: ESO Special Announcement
Date: 25 July 2020 at 2:57:53 am AEST
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Special announcement
24 Jul 2020

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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.

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