STScI Town Hall - January 2020

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) serves the astronomical community through the operation of multiple NASA flagship missions including Hubble, JWST, and WFIRST, the development of advanced data and science archives, including Kepler and TESS, and the dissemination of astronomical information to the broadest public audiences.  Offering this breadth of resources to help the scientific community advance, STScI provides support and the primary user interface for a significant fraction of  NASA’s major mission portfolio. With the Decadal Survey under way, the winter 2020 AAS meeting will represent an ideal opportunity to ensure that all astronomers are engaged in shaping the future of our profession.  STScI will contribute to a wide range of workshops, science sessions, splinter meetings, and exhibits throughout the meeting. 

The STScI Town Hall will serve as the center piece for our AAS 235 presence. With the HST Cycle 28 and JWST Cycle 1 proposal processes underway, we will report on the status of our existing and upcoming missions and describe new opportunities designed to advance astrophysics through the 2020s.  We will highlight new capabilities available through STScI’s data archives, particularly the upcoming availablility of large-scale sky surveys. The Town Hall comprises presentations from STScI’s user engagement leads from our missions and related cross-mission activities.  We will include time for discussion to receive community input regarding new initiatives and to answer questions about our activities in the coming year.

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