Wednesday, January 5, 2005 DZero Elects Terry Wyatt as Christmas Bird Count Heats Wednesday, January 5 New Co-spokesperson Up With Warming Trend The members of the DZero collaboration 11:00 a.m. Fermilab ILC R&D Meeting - 1 have chosen Professor Terry Wyatt of the West University of Manchester as their new Speaker: N. Mokhov, Fermilab spokesperson on November 30. Wyatt Title: Beam Collimation and Machine- joins Jerry Blazey on the job, taking over Detector Interface from John Womersley, who has recently 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE become a scientific advisor to the DOE. BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Wyatt has been a 4:00 FERMILAB COLLOQUIUM Bird watchers scan the skies for birds at DZero member since CANCELED Fermilab at the 2004 Christmas Bird Count. Manchester joined the (Click on image for larger version.) collaboration in 1999. The temperature reached a high in the Thursday, January 6 mid-20s on Saturday, December 18, but THERE WILL BE NO THEORETICAL He currently holds a that didn't stop the birds from coming out, PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK Senior Research Fellowship from and neither did it stop 120 bird counters 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE PPARC and has been from spending the day admiring and BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over tallying those Christmas birds. THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR granted sabbatical Terry Wyatt PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY leave by the University "It wasn't really that cold," said Peter SEMINAR TODAY of Manchester that will allow him to be based at Fermilab through to the end of Kasper of Fermilab's Accelerator Division, his term in fall 2007. who helped organize the annual event. Wednesday, January 5 "It's been colder, and it's snowed some Vegetable Beef Santa Fe Black Bean "Being a DZero spokesperson is a more years… but we have never had a blizzard Quarter Pound Hot Dog in a Soft Pretzel than full-time job," Wyatt said, adding that before, though I expect that would make Roll $4.75 he is shedding all other responsibilities to things difficult." Turkey A La King Over Biscuit $3.75 concentrate on the new job. "Hopefully Country Fried Steak w/Pepper Gravy my colleagues will understand that it will However, Kasper doesn't predict a $3.75 take me a few months to get fully up to blizzard any year soon; in fact, he has Assorted Personal Sized Pizzas $3.25 speed," he said. seen a trend in the opposite direction, by Beef & Cheddar Panini w/Sauteed Onions the name of global warming. "Only in the $4.75 At the top of the collaboration's agenda past few years have we seen birds such Cavatappi Pasta w/Italian Sausage & during the first year of Wyatt's as the Great Heron and the American Tomato Ragu $4.75 appointment will be upgrades to the Robin during this season," he said. "They detector's silicon tracker and trigger, to are a few of the species that no longer Wilson Hall Cafe Menu keep up with the machine's planned migrate south, but instead winter here Chez Leon will be closed through January luminosity increase, he said. Plans for the due to global warming." He encourages and February longer term include upgrades that would people to look at the Christmas Bird allow the detector to record and process Count Website, which graphs each of the up to 150 events per second, three times birds seen every year since 1976. "You the current capacity. "It's a real challenge can see a lot of interesting trends in each for the collaboration to prepare thoroughly one of these," he said. A direct link to Snow 28º/22º for these upgrades - whilst at the same these trends is here. Extended Forecast time we have to continue to operate efficiently our current detector, re-process The counters split up into 10 teams to cover the 15-mile-diameter circle that was Weather at Fermilab our entire current dataset offsite using Grid techniques, and continue our designated by the Audubon Society for its ambitious program of physics analyses," national bird census. One of these teams he said. covered Fermilab's property, where Secon Level 3 volunteers saw a total of 54 species and A project with 650 scientists and about 9,000 individual birds. Many of engineers from virtually every continent these were Canada Geese, the most Search the Fermilab Today Archive can be complex but also engrossing to numerous species, but a rare Pied-billed manage. "We obviously have different Grebe was also seen for the first time at ways of working, but because we share a Fermilab this year. common aim, that transcends our differences," Wyatt said. "It's a fantastic Fermilab Today is online at: feeling when it works well - and with the Fermilab Colloquium Canceled http://www.fnal.gov/today/ performance of both the Tevatron Nadine Barlow, the speaker for today's Send comments and suggestions to accelerator and the DZero detector still on colloquium "Space Program Spin-Offs," is [email protected] an upward trend the potential rewards are snowed in at Flagstaff, Arizona and will enormous." not be able to give her talk. Fermilab Today archive System Administator's Roundtable Fermilab Today PDF Version From The Guardian, January The monthly meeting of computing Fermilab Result of the Week archive 4, 2004 system administrators will be held Out of the Equation Thursday, 1/6 at 1:30 in Curia 2. 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