DKIST General
Operational Status
DKIST is in week 6 of science observing period OCP 2.9
Events
DKIST senior management held a two-day kick-off meeting Oct. 30-31 in Boulder for the Concept of Operations Plan.
Personnel
Congratulations to David Morris on his promotion to Chief Science Operations Specialist!
SciOps and OpsTools team
Accomplishments
Published DKIST announcement of extended winter down-time period: November 1, 2024: DKIST Extended Engineering Period
Continued observing support for OCP2.9.
Cycle 3 Accepted Science Programs have been published on the NSO webpages: https://nso.edu/dkist/accepted-science-programs-cycle3/.
TechOps team
Accomplishments
M1 snow clean and final parts of TLW balancing checks in M1 cell completed.
DLNR Site Plan Approval for the Utility Building PV project ready for submission.
Principal & Senior Mechanical Engineer job postings now advertised.
Regular monthly maintenance activities on air compressors and fill pumps complete.
InstOps team
Accomplishments
Continued support of instrumentation during OCP 2.9
Submitted SFR for Instrumentation development to AURA for review.
Received IR camera short-wave sensors last week.
Data Center team
Accomplishments
Segregated DKIST native clients - All native client applications were currently using a single globus client: DKIST Native Clients. We were unable to test changes to the globus client without impacting PROD. At a minimum three clients were required: SIM, STAGE and PROD. This was completed.
Fixed a bug where re-creation of dataset-inventory/asdf would put a second movie in vimeo orphaning the first. When re-creating dataset-inventory and asdf’s (which we do with updates to dkist-inventory) causes a movie to be published. With the movies being published to Vimeo, this re-publish activity will created a copy and an orphan (won’t be linked in dataset inventory) the old one.
EHS team
Accomplishments