The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

My role is within the Education and Public Outreach group, lead by Suzanne Jacoby. I liaise between the LSST EPO and the Museum's Digital Universe effort, to insure that the LSST data, when it comes, will be put to good use in many of our vanues and used in Planetaria around the world who use our products.

Over the years working with LSST, I have also realized that the data mining of such a massive survey will benefit tremendously from the help of citizen scientists (see for instance the extremely successful Galaxy Zoo project carried out on Sloan Digital Sky Survey data) and I am working with Suzanne and the EPO group to insure that data can be served to the public in its full glory, and that citizen scientists projects, aligned with the science collaborations, are ready to go when the data comes.

Finally, the Data Management Group, lead by Jeff Kantor and Tim Axelrod are working with us to help us design an EPO Data Access Center. I think that this specialized centre will be used by the public as well as professional astronomers to browse and query the LSST Sky.