PERSONNEL

Robert F. Garrison (formerly Professor and Associate Director, DDO, in charge of Chile operations; Profesor Emeritus since 2001 June 30) was involved with UTSO from the initial planning in 1969 until the decommissioning in 1998.

The following individuals were chiefly responsible for UTSO instrumentation from 1990 onward:

• Brian Beattie: assisted with operations and decommissioning; now employed in the USA private sector
• Dave Earlam: machinist; constructed instruments, working with Archie Ridder (and before 1990, with David Blyth); now retired
• Frank Hawker: electronics technician; now retired
• Karl Kamper: Adjunct Professor of Astronomy, University of Toronto; optical engineer; designed and supervised construction of most UTSO instruments; died in 1998
• John Pimentel: electronics technician; has now left DDO
• Archie Ridder: machinist and computer technician; constructed instruments, working with Dave Earlam (and before 1990, with David Blyth)
• Florence Unwin: handled much of the accounting and logistics; now retired

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