{"id":8344,"date":"2016-01-08T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2016-01-08T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:17:27","slug":"ssec-instrument-evolution-past-present-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/8344","title":{"rendered":"SSEC instrument evolution: Past, present, future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"  width=\"533\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-J0Oumafks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiki-toki.com\/timeline\/entry\/475997\/SSEC-Instrument-Developments\/\">SSCC, McIDAS, HSP, VAS, HIS, WIYN<\/a>. These and many other instruments \u2014 their development, their scientific significance, and their intricate relationships to one another \u2014 are described in a video oral history covering the half-century of hardware programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\u2019s Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC).<\/p>\n<p>Taking a chronological walk through the instrumentation of SSEC\u2019s past \u2014 and into its future \u2014 SSEC executive director for technology Fred Best moderated an oral history panel in conjunction with SSEC\u2019s 50th anniversary. The innovative ground-based and space-based programs described in the video first took shape under the leadership of SSEC founder Verner Suomi and continue today under the leadership of director Hank Revercomb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The focus of this [oral history] will be how we got into our hardware projects, how we conducted them, and what kinds of interesting problems we ran into along the way,\u201d explained Best.<\/p>\n<p>Oral histories have long been recognized for their unique historical value, as a way to capture \u2014 in audio or video format \u2014 interpretations, perspectives, and stories of the interviewees. Moreover, documenting these personal accounts deepens institutional memory, offering today\u2019s insight into past events. The stories and reflections are commonly used by scholars undertaking biographical or historical research, but they can also be effectively used for modern purposes geared toward the public eye, such as exhibits, commemorative materials, documentaries, or public relations campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><em>Instrument Development at the Space Science and Engineering Center<\/em> was recorded at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on September 10, 2015. In addition to Best, the panel included Hank Revercomb, retired engineers Evan Richards and Kenneth Walker, and honorary fellow Anthony Wendricks.<\/p>\n<p>The video and its transcript will become part of the Schwerdtfeger Library digital collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel recounts evolution of programs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles","tag-cimss"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8387,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}