The JCMT Newsletter

September 2001 Issue Number 17

*GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS*		*INSTRUMENTATION UPDATE*
From the Director's Desk		Heterodyne Instrumentation
Call for Proposals for Semester 02A		SCUBA and SCUBA Polarimeter
Fred Baas, 1944-2001		FTS
JCMT Shutdown Summer 2002		SPIFI
JCMT/SCUBA Publications 1999/2000: Banner Years		MPI 800GHz Receiver (RxE)
JCMT Annual Report - 2000		The 186GHz Water Vapour Monitor
The Night Watchman		Tau, Seeing & Sensitivities
SCUBA-2 Update		Engineering Console Upgrade - October 2001
JAC Employment Opportunities
		*SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS*
*PATT INFORMATION*		Magnetic Fields in the Gas Feeding the Galactic Centre
PATT Application Deadline		Distribution of dust in NGC 4449
Electronic Submissions		The SCUBA 8mJy Survey
Flexible Scheduling Guidelines		A SCUBA survey of the NGC 2068/2071 protoclusters
JCMT Allocations for Semester 01A		Outflows from High-Mass YSOs
JCMT Working Schedule		SCUBA sheds new light on the size of Kuiper Belt objects
		First Magnetic Field Measurements in Bok Globules
*STATISTICS*		JAC Internal Science Seminars
Weather Stats for Semester 00B
Weather Stats for Semester 01A		*ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER*
Operational Stats for 2000/2001		Points of Contact
Publication Statistics		Next Submission Deadline