DKIST General
Operational Status
DKIST is in week 3 of OCP 2.8.
Events
DKIST hosted Shadow the Scientist featuring Dr. Sarah Jaeggli - 8/20.
Pau Hana celebrating Sebastien Poupor and Linda Edwards was held at the DSSC - 8/22.
The Cycle 3 Science Review Committee (SRC) will meet at NSO Boulder - 8/26-8/28.
Personnel
Sebastian Poupar will be departing DKIST for a new position in Italy starting in August.
Linda Edwards will also be departing DKIST for a new position soaking up the sun in retirement starting in September.
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
Ongoing observing support for OCP2.8.
Continued training activities of new SOS hire.
Finalizing the OCP2.9 plan and preparing to schedule science operations support (resident scientist and science operations specialists shift schedules).
OpsTool team preparing for the release of a new version of the Operations Panning and Monitoring Tool.
TechOps team
Accomplishments
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
Data Center team
Accomplishments