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<font face="Arial">Thanks so much, Joe, for thinking of me as worthy of beginning to help with the stewardship of CBA going forward! I’m greatly honored and more than a little intimidated, but mostly very excited to be a part of such an extraordinary collaboration
of dedicated astronomers. I look forward to dedicating my time and energy to continue CBA's decades-long legacy of extraordinary success. One of the best things about CBA is the community that you all have built over the years, and I know we can continue
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<div><font face="Arial">With Joe and Jonathan’s help, I’m working on preparing a proposal to the US National Science Foundation for financial support for the CBA project. If any of you have thoughts on future directions or items that would help you specifically
or CBA observers in general, and would like talk via email/texts/WhatsApp/Zoom, please reach out - I would love to get to know you. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">While this is a change, the mission and overall operation of the CBA isn’t going to change dramatically anytime soon - why mess with success? Joe has promised that he’s going to remain active (i.e., the “brains”) in the collaboration,
but needs someone to help with they day-to-day communications and operations. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">My email is Matt.Wood@tamuc.edu, and my cell/mobile number is +1 903.269.6682. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">My university web pages are </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Here: </font><a href="https://www.tamuc.edu/people/matt-wood/">https://www.tamuc.edu/people/matt-wood/</a></div>
<div><font face="Arial">And here: </font><a href="http://faculty.tamuc.edu/mwood/">http://faculty.tamuc.edu/mwood/</a></div>
<div>(Both need updating, of course).</div>
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<div><font face="Arial">That’s all I can think of at this time. Again I look forward to getting to know you all and working with you going forward. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Cheers,</font></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(3, 45, 153);">Matt A. Wood, Ph.D.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Regents Professor of Physics & Astronomy <br>
Texas A&M University-Commerce<br>
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<div>On Oct 9, 2024, at 9:39 AM, Joe Patterson <jop@astro.columbia.edu> wrote:</div>
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Hi CBAers,<br>
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I've persuaded Matt Wood (Texas A&M - Commerce) to join me with the<br>
duties of "heading" (with Jonathan's help, and maybe Enrique's) the CBA.<br>
Matt is very experienced with CVs, mostly from the theory side but<br>
plenty familiar with observation as well. I think he's been observing<br>
DQ Her for quite a few years. So your data will go to the three of us,<br>
at least - as well as in the archive which anyone can access (and AAVSO<br>
for that matter).<br>
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I'm still banging the drums for V1674 Her, despite faintness (18) and a<br>
poor sky position. The pulse period continues to shorten, though at a<br>
lower rate... and a good value for it now will make it easier to bridge<br>
the gap until February, when Hercules comes back. Same goes for DQ Her,<br>
though it has no significant off-season uncertainty like V1674 Her.<br>
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IM Nor and T Pyx are excellent choices now, to try to track their<br>
meteoric-at-last-sight period changes.<br>
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That leaves late-night northern objects - of that, later.<br>
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joe<br>
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