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DKIST hosted Shadow the Scientist featuring Dr. Sarah Jaeggli - 8/20.
Pau Hana celebrating Sebastien Poupor and , Linda Edwards and Sarah Jaeggli was held at the DSSC - 8/22.
The Cycle 3 Science Review Committee (SRC) will meet at NSO Boulder - 8/26-8/28.
Personnel
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Sebastian Poupar will be departing DKIST for a new position in Italy starting in August.
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Dr Sarah Jaeggli was approved by the AURA Board of Directors for tenure! Please congratulate Sarah when you see her.
SciOps and OpsTools team
Accomplishments
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Ongoing TechOps support for OCP 2.8
DKIST Access Control System was installed and is up and running. Thanks to Marco / Koki and IT support in getting everything working with the contractor.
Primary Chiller 1 Failure on Sun 8/18 required a full system shutdown. Switched to Chiller 2 on Mon 8/19 with thermal engineer support and back to on-sun mid morning. Repair planned for 8/22.
Review of tasks and planning for engineering 2024D starting 9/9.
InstOps team
Accomplishments
Ongoing Instrumentation support for OCP 2.8
VBI: took data for verification of a timing fix impacting the VBI in Rolling Shutter mode, analysis ongoing
Cryo-NIRSP: intermittent CI camera controller problem was investigated
DL-NIRSP: Field steering mirror issue was diagnosed and fixed
VISP: data to verify external focus of VISP was acquired, analysis ongoing
Data Center team
Accomplishments
ongoing ingestion and processing of data for OCP 2.8
completed cryo-nirsp trial #8 in preparation for Cryo-NIRSP pipeline V1.0
Ongoing updates of services for updating of Data Center observability framework to V2.0