Organizations Filed Purposes:
Astrophysical Research Consortium operates two telescopes at the Apache Point Observatory. There is a 3.5 meter general purpose telescope and a survey specialized 2.5 meter Sloan Foundation telescope. The telescopes have distinct purposes in the service of their constituencies.
Astrophysical Research Consortium was established to design, build and operate a variety of sizes and shapes of telescopes at its Apache Point site at Sunspot, New Mexico.
The 3.5 meter telescope benefits the research faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and public outreach programs of each member institution. Using innovative remote software, astronomers can operate and collect data from anywhere in the world. The telescope has a suite of cameras and spectrographs that serve a wide variety of scientific endeavors, resulting in more than 50 refereed science results being published each year. There is an active outreach program at the observatory and at member institutions. The 2.5 meter telescope, which operates the SDSS-IV survey projects, had a productive year. The ongoing SDSS-IV project is a collaboration of more than 60 institutions and 600 astronomers. The primary foci of the survey this year were the on-going operations at Apache Point Observatory and at Las Campanas Observatory. The SDSS-V project continues with fundraising and it has started development of astronomical instrumentation for the 2.5 meter telescope, as well as survey definition and simulations.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Alim Patten | Business Manager | 50 | $75,754 |
| Michael Crenshaw | Board Chair | 4 | $15,625 |
| Scott Anderson | Trustee | 0.3 | $14,364 |
| Ronald Irving | Secretary and Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| John Wisniewski | Trustee | 0.3 | $0 |
| Sara Rosen | Trustee | 0.9 | $0 |
| Jeremy Darling | Trustee | 0.1 | $0 |
| James Murphy | Trustee | 0.3 | $0 |
| Rosemary F G Wyse | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Chip Kobulnicky | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Edmund Synakowski | Trustee | 0.1 | $0 |
| Georgia Kosmopoulou | Trustee | 0.1 | $0 |
| Jon Holtzman | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Victor M Bright | Trustee | 0.1 | $0 |
| John Hawley | Trustee | 0.9 | $0 |
| Steve Majewski | Trustee | 0.4 | $0 |
| John Toscano | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Suzanne Hawley | Trustee | 0.5 | $0 |
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