Preamble (to the NAIC director) - 29 April, 2002

Paul,

Below is my best attempt at listing the staff-related
duties which I currently perform at Arecibo.  There's probably
a few things I forgot, but I think this at least covers most
of it.

If there's any more information, or any clarifications, which
you would like please let me know.

Karen

OBSERVATORY DUTIES:

(1) Visitor Support

    - Friending 3-4 observers/year at the telescope

    - Writing, updating, etc. the "Spectral Line User's Manual"

    - Offering software support/advice to many of the AO spectral
        line observers, on site, during the data reduction
        phase, and during the proposal phase.

(2) Web Page Work

   - Webmaster for all astronomy related pages on the NAIC site:
        Monitoring all web pages which astronomers could use
        and doing my best to insure the pages are up-to-date, the
        links work, etc.  (This include all "scientific" pages bar
        those directly relating to the radar or ionosphere programs.)

   - Writing numerous astronomy-related web pages for the NAIC site:
        General Technical Info Page;
        Available/planned receivers page;
        Data Reduction information pages;
        Misc. Info for observers pages (i.e. any info which doesn't
                readily fall into the existing categories on the
                astro web site);
        Spectral Line Observers Web pages (info on data taking, reduction,
                etc. of interest to spectral line observers);
        Front pages for the astronomy pages (all the related links,
                the "current news front page, etc.)
        Astronomy highlights page (previous astro highlights, newsletter
                links, etc.)
        IF/LO web information (in theory, detailed info on the IF/LO
                and related systems at the telescopes, done with
                Jon Hagens help)
        Operations log page (with Jeff Hagen, a site where changes,
                tests, etc. done on the telescope can be logged);
        ALFA pages (info, bulletin boards, mailing lists, etc. for
                the ALFA site);
        L-narrow receiver page (all details relating to the L-narrow
                receiver);
        AO GUI pages (with Jeff Hagan);

(3) Software Development
   - Acting as astronomy (all but pulsar stuff) liaison
        for the observing GUI

    - AIPS++ software developer for Arecibo data reduction routines,
        plus acting as the contact between AO and the AIPS++
        development team

(4) Hardware Development

    - Friend of the L-Narrow receiver:
        Keeping track of the state of the receiver;
        Obtaining (through both taking/helping take and reducing
                the data) gain/system temperature info for the
                receiver and for the cals;
        Working with the engineering department on any changes/
                improvements for the receiver;
        Keeping up-to-date info on the receiver available for
                telescope users (primarily through the receiver
                web pages);

(5) Other

    - Co-editor of the NAIC Newsletter (published 3x/year)

    - Acting as the contact person for the ALFA Extragalactic consortium,
        as well as monitoring the ALFA Extragalactic, software, and hardware
        web pages and bulletin boards

EDUCATION & OUTREACH:

(1) Students
    - Accept one REU student/year.  Usually (2/3) results in a
                poster at the winter AAS, to which I accompany student

    - Typ. work as outside/local adviser to 1-3 graduate students/year

(2) Talks/ etc.
    - Typically give 3-5 public (i.e. non-scientific) talks/year

    - Volunteer as outside 'officiant' (judge, moderator, etc.) at
        local events 2-4/year

    - Give 4-? scientific talks/year at conferences, colloquia, etc.

(3) Other
    - Collaborator on AO AAS poster

    - Typ. work at (often run) NAIC booth at AAS meetings