'25/26 Flex Activities:
Wed Aug 20 12-1pm - CCFT Luncheon at Hort 5005 (late approved but I had not reg'd 1hr)
Wed Aug 20 3-5pm - CTC Connection, at the CTC center 1400 (reg'd, done)
Thur Aug 21 3-5pm - use this for Program Planning work at the Dept level. NOT Fri 3-5pm because that interferes with Astro Dept meeting.
Fri Aug 22 - Fri 2-4pm?? Astro Dept meeting (not created). Maybe instead slot this for 9-11pm so can use for AM3 and Will Glass meetup at observatory?
talk at Chabot
Watsonville show/tell in September
Nov 6, Thur 6:15pm - Natalie Batalha at the Music Center UCSC, talk on exo-planets. I'm reg'd
Dec 3, Wed 5-7pm - Community Star Party at Cabrillo Observatory. Highlights; Saturn rings edge on, Jupiter, Orion Nebula, star clusters.
Jan 12 Mon - 1:15pm at ISB 221 UCSC - climate scientist Ben Santer talks.
Jan 21 Wed eve - dinner with Zeke Hausfather with EFI/UCSC-CAN. 6pm at Avante
Jan 22 Thur - FGSS Grant ceremony (2hr)
Jan 23 Fri - STEM meeting (2.5hr) , Astro Dept meeting at Observatory (4hr)
Feb 26 Thur 3:30pm @ CfAO Atrium - Climate Salon #5 w/ Patrick Chuang - "Energy and Material Constraints on a Fossil Fuel Free World". See Sandy's email 2/17.
Apr 16 - Thur 11:30am - Zoom session for response if ICE invades campus. Flex credit 1.25 hrs. Zoom link
Apr 30 Thur afternoon "Planetary Health" panel at Seymour Center 4-6pm. I'm reg'd
May 7 5:30pm- Scholarship potluck/celebration at Hort. Jordan featured too.
May 11 Mon eve 8-10pm - Community Star Party at Cabrillo Observatory
May 13? Rosemary Greiner Peace Awards
May 15 - Celebration for Cabrillo SA's, at Coconut Grove
June 30 Tue 3-4pm at CfAO; meet with X. Prochaska on Scenario constructions
Flex Activities for FY 26/27
--Jul 2 Thur - pilot EFI/UCSC-CAN Retreat strategizing. All day ( 8hrs 9-5pm) PowerPoint of 42 slides created, given to group, and brainstorming on much more on how to change Universities to meet the challenge of a very different world up ahead. = 8hr
--July 12 Sun 1-2pm - Meet with X on designing a climate blog, AI = 1hr
--July 27 Mon - 1.5hr x 2 for my presentation to Santa Cruz Climate Action Network on Hansen's latest article "Beware Media Hype! It's not the El Nino!" = 3hr
Aug 17 8:30-noon - All College Day at Cabrillo. (done) = 3.5hr
Aug 17 1-2pm- Rm 450 SLO assessment (reg'd, done) = 1hr
Aug 18 2-3pm - Rm 202 "Transitioning to CourseDog" (reg'd done) = 1hr
Aug 18 3-5pm - Hort - Faculty Senate first meeting. (reg'd, done) = 2hr
Aug 19 11:30-1pm - CCFT Luncheon (reg'd) = 1.5hr if granted
Aug 19 3-5pm - CTC Open House, 1400 Bldg again. (reg'd, attended) = 2hr
Aug 20 1-2:30pm - Bloodborne Pathogens (zoom only: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83017454982?pwd=zQmLbetaFKAKs4MBHrjrblLxuDRCcl.1 ) (reg'd, attended) = 1.5hr
Aug 21 8:30am STEM Div Meeting in Hort = 3hr flex credit
Aug 21 2-4pm nominal in 706 - Astro Dept Meeting (done) = 4hr flex credit
Aug 21 4-5pm - Astro SLO meeting nomnal in 706 (done) = 2hr flex credit
Aug 22 Sat early - ESOP IOTA-ES 45th Symposium on Occultations, I'm reg'd. To give talk on our 2nd Moon of Quaoar 2:40am my time. I joined the Saturday session: 9:30-14:40 EUT time. My talk lasted 30 minutes including Q/A. So that's 2x=1hr for my talk, and 4:30 hr for attendence with the other sessions, or 5:30 hr total external Flex credit. (27hr total this week)
Including the 12 hr in July listed above, that's 39 hrs. I'm already done w/ the year's flex requirements!