From: "jstatman" <jstatman AT mail.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: <devaney AT stanford.edu>
Cc: "bob Lash" <bob@bambi.net>
Subject: Potential NASA/JPL-Stanford Cooperation on the Stanford  18-m  antennas
Date: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:44 PM

Dear Pat,

To follow-up on the voice-mail I left you, here are some more details. Over 
the last few weeks, there were discussions on potential JPL-Stanford 
cooperation in the use of the Stanford site 515 - where five 18-m antennas 
are located. Key to this cooperation is using the site for outreach to 
nationwide high-school students (through an existing JPL outreach program) 
and to amateur radio astronomers (through the Friends of the Bracewell 
Observatory Association, led by Bob Lash). We have checked with faculty to 
identify any plans for use of the site. While there is support for some 
faculty use, there is no plan for major use by Stanford faculty - outreach 
could be a major user.

We believe that this conversion of site 515 can be accomplished with 
minimal or no financial burden to the university, while gaining Stanford 
and NASA/JPL significant good will from the community. The Stanford OSO 
objectives seem very aligned with the JPL/DSN objectives. You can visit the 
JPL/DSN related site at 
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/gavrt/index.html  or the Lewis Center 
site at http://www.lewiscenter.org/ for more details. I'm enclosing a white 
paper outlining potential cooperation. The Stanford sponsoring organization 
could be the department of Physics (I already contacted Prof. Petrosian and 
Romani regarding use of the site). We have also talked to the School of 
Engineering, the current "owner" of the site, and they have no further use 
for the site.

Bob and I would like to open a discussion on such of cooperative agreement. 
Please let me know if there is interest from the Stanford OSO in such an 
approach.

Regards,

Joe Statman




Joseph I. Statman
Microwave Array Project