The Role of the Local Coordinator
The Local Coordinator's prime role is to serve as facilitator and advocate for
approved SOI science proposal data collection, pipeline analysis, and
distribution. The LC serves as liason between the lead investigator, SOI
science team, and appropriate SOI staff members. The LC will be the
investigation team's prime contact with the SOI project.
A Local Coordinator is assigned when a proposal is approved. The LC will often
be a member of the proposing team or someone who is interested in the science
goals of the project and will often be the local coordinator of the most closely
related science team.
The local coordinator will be someone who works at Stanford, LMPARL, or the EOF.
In cooperation with the investigation team, the Local Coordinator will
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represent the
investigation at planning meetings (if a co-investigator cannot)
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help the investigator team work with the appropriate staff at
Stanford and LMPARL to develop MDI observing sequences, if required
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help the investigator team work with the appropriate staff at
Stanford and LMPARL to develop pipeline reduction programs, if required.
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monitor the pipeline reduction of data and facilitate its eventual
evaluation, acceptance, and release to the investigation team.
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regularly monitor the progress of the investigation and
update the lead investigator and WWW pages when the status changes
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check publications for MDI and SSSC
(processing) technical accuracy prior to submission.
The Local Coordinator will participate in the investigation to the degree
mutually agreed to with the investigation team. The LC is not obliged to write
proposals, generate computer code, perform data analysis, etc. However, the LC
will typically assist in the investigation and, if appropriate, should be given
the option of joining the team as a co-author of publications.
Return to the
Science Proposal Page or the
SOI Main Page
Todd Hoeksema / todd@solar.stanford.edu / 11 December, 1996