SUMMARY


                  AASTOWG (formerly AAOWG) Meeting  
			 May 23, 1994 
                          Boulder, CO			  

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                           Attendees
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            NAME                      INSTITUTION                AASTOWG

            John Bally                CARA, Univ. of CO              *
	    Frank Bartko              CASA, Univ. of CO         
            Pierre Bely               STSCI
	    Jousef Billawala          Univ. of CO
	    Richard Chamberlin        CARA, Boston Univ.
	    Mike Dopita               JACARA, Mt. Stomolo            *
	    Dave Fischer              Antarctic Support Associates
            Ed Friedman               Ball Aerospace 
	    Jeff Peterson             CARA, Carnegie Mellon Univ.    *
	    Simon Radford             NRAO         
	    Tony Stark                CARA, CFA                      *  
	    David Theil               CASA, Univ. of CO
	    Jay Tilley                Ball Aerospace


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                       AGENDA
                    Monday, May 23 
		      Morning 

9:00 - 9:30    Intro and Review of the Lockheed AGO 
	       capabilities.                            - J. Bally  
9:30 - 10:00   Review of the Australian Antarctic 
	       Initiative                               - M. Dopita
10:00 - 10:30  Review of POST                           - P. Bely

                       break     

10:45 - 11:00  NRAO MMA site selection strategies       - S. Radford
11:00 - 11:15  SMA  site selection and testing          - A. A. Stark
11:15 - 11:30  South Pole Tipper Results                - R. Chamberlin
11:30 - 11:45  Isoplanameters, scintilometers           - J. Tilley  
11:45 - 12:00  Bolometric tippers                       - J. Peterson 
12:00 - 12:15  DIMMs                                    - M. Dopita

                       lunch

1:30 -  3:00   Open Discussion: 

                       break

3:10 - 5:00    Continue Open Discussion: 



During the morning,  presentations were made in which plans for
CARA, JACARA, and POST were discussed.  After break, we
heard presentations on recent site testing results in Antarctica
and other observatory sites, and discussed a variety of site testing
strategies covering optical, infrared, sub-mm, and radio
wavelengths.

The afternoon was devoted to discussions of strategies and
implementation.  The AASTOWG agreed on the following resolutions:


                       RESOLUTIONS

1. The name of the Automated Astronomical Observatory Working Group 
   (AAOWG)
   shall be changed to:

   Automated Astronomical Site Testing Observatory Working Group
   (AASTOWG)


2. Having considered the proposed JACARA plans for the deployment
   of an Automated Astronomical Site Testing Observatory, the
   AASTOWG strongly endorses this proposal, and additionally 
   recommends that NSF be responsible for the deployment, operations,
   and logistics support tasks, that CARA be responsible for the
   development of the sub-mm sky brightness monitor, and further
   recommends consideration of the following provisional suite 
   of instruments for deployment in a Lockheed AGO module:
   
   *  Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM)
   *  Sub-millimeter sky brightness monitor
   *  Isoplanameter/scintilometer
   *  Near-IR and mid-IR spectrometer
   *  Wide-field-of-view optical imaging spectrometer
   *  Acoustic sounder
   *  Microthermal sensor array 



					John Bally

					Co-chair
					AASTOWG