Small Projects Fund:
Accepting Proposals Soon
Have you ever used a Gemini instrument
and dreamed about the additional science
you could do if it only had this one little additional capability? Well, now is your chance
to make it a reality. As part of continuing efforts to maintain the competitiveness of our
Gemini North and South instruments, we recently released a Request for Proposals (RFP)
for community-led upgrades to our existing
instrument suite. The goal of this program
is to provide opportunities for Gemini users and instrument teams to provide new
science-driven capabilities to our operating
instruments.
This year, we have a total budget of
$200,000 for these projects. We intend to
fund two or more projects. However, we
will also consider compelling proposals requesting up to the whole budget as well
as those requesting minimal or no funding
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from Gemini. Proposers can also request up
to 10 hours of telescope time for immediate science with their upgrade after it is installed and commissioned.
Sample projects could include adding and
commissioning a new filter or grating, commissioning a new detector mode for more
optimal rapid time-series performance, or
bringing an integral field unit back to GNIRS.
If it adds scientific capability to existing instruments, and you can do the work within
the program’s constraints (see the detailed
request for proposals at the link below),
we’re interested.
The RFP is open to all institutions or companies from nation partners that fund the Gemini Observatory and to non-partner country
Principal Investigators who have significant
and relevant experience in using, designing,
and/or building a Gemini instrument. More
information including the relevant ti Y\