Socorro, 23 March 2006
Action Items
Alan Levander (AL) - chair, Artie Rogers (AR), Ray Russo (RR), Matt Fouch (MF) (arrived at 10:00 am), and Camelia Knapp (CK).
John Collins , William Stephenson, Stephan Rondenay, George Zandt.
David Simpson (DS), Rick Aster (RA), Marcos Alvarez (MA), Bruce Beaudoin (BB), Steve Harder (SH), Frank Vernon (FV), and James Fowler (JF).
Alan Levander (chair), Ray Russo (UF), and Artie Rogers (Lawrence Livermore); George Zandt (Univ. of Arizona) was not present.
Jim and Bruce will reword Instrument Use Policy and User’s Guide to reiterate expectations that PI will personally see equipment shipped back to PIC following all deployments.
Change the policy such that PASSCAL is responsible for travel arrangements for field projects. PI should coordinate with PASSCAL for the travel budget.
Strengthen the wording in the use policy on PI’s responsibility to attend training.
Adopt the following policy and reword the use agreement. “The PIs will visit the PIC for in-house training. In addition, for large experiments, the in-field training by a PASSCAL staff member is recommended”.
- Approve the budget as discussed.
Priorities for additional money:
Workshop
Software
BB sensors
Texans
Work with IRIS to implement an efficient and effective web design.
Draft proposal for re-allocation of funds in FA to get more broadbands and no more short period stations and 300 less Texans
Get a short statement from Ken Craiger about the ISC program
The committee recommends not buying any more 40 Hz phones for the Texans for both the FA and PASSCAL.