1 Director’s Message
Markus Kissler-Patig
3 Gemini Captures Extreme Eruption on Io
Katherine de Kleer
8 Science Highlights
Nancy A. Levenson
11 News for Users
Gemini staff contributions
15 On the Horizon
Gemini staff contributions
18 Fast Turnaround Program: It’s About Time
Rachel Mason
22 Gemini Future and Science Meeting 2015
24 Bring One, Get One: Engaging Gemini’s Users and Their Students
Peter Michaud
26 gAstronomy and Exoplanets
Peter Michaud
On the Cover:
Images from this
issue’s feature science
article by Katherine
de Kleer on extreme
volcanism on Jupiter’s
moon Io (see page 3).
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