2012 CFHT Annual Report - Canada France Hawaii Telescope ...

CFHT 2012 Annual Report
Figure 24 – In August and September a team of volunteers,
including several from CFHT, participated in a project organized
by OMKM to remove invasive plant species from the vicinity of
HP and the VIS. Thirty large bags of weeds were removed,
helping make room for a future planting of native Hawaiian
flora in the area.
Figure 25 – CFHT helped host the first‐ever Akamai Career
Exploration Course. From Lisa Hunter, the program
organizer, “The students learned a great deal about who
works at observatories, and how they got there through the
interviews they did with you.”
Figure 26 – Left: CFHT opened its doors to the community and thanks to clear skies was (along with Keck) the only
astronomy office able to show the public the transit of Venus in June. This outreach event was a spectacular success,
with ~500 people, including many keiki, flooding into the CFHT/HQ courtyard to view the event through telescopes set
up by the CFHT staff. Right: Another example of Keck/CFHT community involvement is the “Adopt a Highway” program
which keeps a ~1 mile stretch of the road outside Waimea clean.
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