The People Page

Dwight Chan has been appointed as JCMT Electrical Engineer.

The following member of staff has left the JAC recently and we would like to extend our thanks and appreciation for all his hard work on behalf of the JAC, and wish him every success in the future.

Lorne Avery departs in early September back to HIA, Victoria. Lorne has been at the JCMT for the past three years hoping to get some scientific research done. However he was given the new RxB3 to calibrate and maintain and this has managed to take up the vast majority of his time. In addition to many mountain trips (quite often at weekends or during holidays) to 'fix' or 'patch' RxB3 into operation Lorne has spent considerable effort towards getting a comprehensive catalog of spectral line standards into shape with simple access tools for all heterodyne observers. Lorne will remain in frequent contact with the JCMT since he goes back to HIA to become Head of the JCMT Group on the retirement of John MacLeod.

There will be 4 new University of Victoria students working at the JAC between September and December -

Dimitri Marinakis will be working on the conversion of the existing Panel adjuster VME micro Drama software with Ian Smith. This work will enable the micro to control the pending replacement panel adjuster electronics.

Pam Shimek will be assisting Remo Tilanus and Tim Jenness on the Observation Management Project. She will be working on tools to assist with flexible scheduling on the JCMT.

Patricia Smith and Paul Geddes will be under the direction of Ian Pain working on a range of design tasks including Upgrades work (staff lounge ceiling insulation and/or Dome cooling and HVAC) and support (translation mount, etc), operations support and documentation improvement.