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in the SLAC CommunityMarch 1995 Vol. 6, No. 3

Plating Shop Wins Excellence Awardby Ann McKillop

THE COVETED "1994 Industrialand Hazardous Waste Facility ofthe Year" award was presented tothe SLAC Plating Shop and its asso-ciated Rinse Water Treatment Plant(RWTP) on February 7. This awardis granted by the local branch of theCalifornia Water Pollution ControlAssociation and is intended to rec-ognize facilities for their outstand-ing achievement in the area ofwastewater management.

In his acceptance speech, AliFarvid, the Plating Shop Supervi-sor, said, "This award belongs toall of SLAC." Ali and George Lax-son, the RWTP Supervisor, stressedthe cooperation that played a keyrole in earning SLAC the award.Ali and George worked with theSLAC administration to obtainfunding. Plant Engineer Jim Oggand the Environmental Protectionand Waste Management Depart-ment staff helped to design andbuild the wastewater reductionsystem, and to evaluate otherwaste minimization measures andregulatory issues. Finally, the Plat-ing Shop and RWTP staff success-fully implemented the reductionmeasures.

The Plating Shop performs sur-face finishing on metal parts usedfor accelerator maintenance andresearch projects. Plating Shop staffdip accelerator parts in a series ofbaths containing cleaning, plating,and rinsing solutions. They careful-ly monitor the rinsing process toprevent cross contamination, and

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Norm Domingo (center), Industrial Wastewater Inspector from the South BaysideSystem Authority, presents the award to George Laxson (left), Rinse Water Treat-ment Plant Supervisor (left), and Ali Farvid, Plating Shop Supervisor (right).

use an automatic control to adjustthe concentration of metals and oth-er compounds in each rinse tank.

Rinse water from the platingprocess contains heavy metals andcannot be directly released into theenvironment. Ali proudly pointsout the innovative system ofunderground pipes that carriesthis water from the Plating Shop tothe RWTP. The pipes help to segre-gate the rinse water according tothe type of chemicals the watercontains. Each pipe leads to aholding tank where George moni-tors the pH of the water and pre-cipitates the heavy metals intosludge. The water can then besafely released into the sanitarysewer system. Drying the remain-ing sludge completes the treat-ment and reduces the volume thatmust be shipped to a waste-han-dling facility. Shipping and dis-posal of waste sludge is expensive,

so taking steps to reduce wastevolume is very important.

After carrying out these andmany other efficient measures, thePlating Shop and the RWTP wereable to reduce chemical costs by50%, waste sludge volume by 70%,and water volume use by 46%(860,000 gallons), from 1990through 1992. In fact, the two facil-ities have implemented the mea-sures so successfully that otherSLAC departments have asked forsuggestions on processing andminimizing their own waste.

For the future, Ali envisions thePlating Shop and the RWTP work-ing as a closed-loop system withzero discharge, whereby most ofthe rinse water will be continuous-ly recycled. Recycling will reducewaste generation and disposalcosts even further. Congratula-tions to all!

SLAC Educator recognizedP.A. MOORE, SLAC's EducationCoordinator, was elected chair ofthe Science Education Academy ofthe Bay Area (SEABA) at a recentmeeting. SEABA is an associationof 60 organizations providinghigh-quality science programs,professional development andresources to teachers in the 10-county Bay Area. Other membersinclude Livermore, Berkeley andSandia National Labs, sciencemuseums, school districts, andother informal science educationproviders. Membership in theorganization is by nomination andrequires recognition of specificquality standards in science edu-cation. SEABA's mission is to act asa voice for science reform.

Moore, who has a doctorate ineducation, has been at SLAC fortwo years. Her responsibilities

Menlo ParkHAVING TAUGHT the funda-mentals of journalism for the lasttwo years to aspiring Woodward'sand Bernstein's, Jon Rosell,SLAC's new Public InformationOfficer, came on board March 17.

The former journalism profes-sor brings a diverse background tohis new position.

"My daughters call me a mod-ern day Renaissance Man, "saysRosell. His background includestime as a reporter, editor and pub-lisher, including having edited theTombstone Epitaph in Tombstone,Arizona across the street from theOK Corral, and some 15 years inthe Air Force where he oversawintelligence operations and com-manded Titan II ICBM complexes.

"It was on a 2 AM shift in thesilo that I found myself reading Cration boxes," he said. "At thatpoint I went back to school, fin-ished my Masters and switchedinto public affairs work. It was thisbackground in nuclear weapons

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include coordinating workshopsfor teachers, overseeing equip-ment donations to schools, servingas the representative for educationprograms to the DOE, and servingas SLAC's point of contact forwomen's issues for DOE. She hasbeen a member of the SEABA exec-utive committee for the past yearand has served on the editorialsubcommittee for the SEABA Jour-nal, an annual publication whichdescribes science resources in thearea and offers a member directo-ry. Similar information is offeredon-line and the print journal offersspecific instructions to teachers onhow to access the Internet.

When asked her agenda forSEABA as the new chair, Moorestates that she "wants to move theassociation into a more activeposition with specific science

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and public affairs that took me toLawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory. My time there coveredthe massive demonstrations in thelate 1980s and the ChernobylNuclear Accident."

"The world's press camped outat the Lab because it had the Atmos-pheric Release Advisory Capabili-ty Center. The center had beendesigned to test the nuclear wintertheory, but when the Three MileIsland nuclear accident camealong it was found to work very

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reform efforts throughout thestate. We have a powerful combi-nation of resources and we can useour voice to effect positive changein the schools." SEABA is housedat Far West Regional Lab in SanFrancisco.

e, Chernobylwell in a real time situation. Herethey had a much larger area, 2000miles by 2000 miles as comparedto 20 miles by 20 miles, but thesystem worked quite well. To thisday I still get calls from reportersaround the world that I met dur-ing Chernobyl."

After being recruited awayfrom the Lab by Litton Industries,Rosell went on to work for UnitedTechnologies and Chemical WasteManagement before being recruit-ed on a crash basis to teach thejournalism sequence at the Univer-sity of the Pacific.

"The Communications Depart-ment needed someone in a hurry,"said Rosell, "the former journalisminstructor had quit with twoweeks' notice.

"I had always said that when Iretired that I would like to teachcommunications. Well, I found outthat I love to teach, but I'm notready to retire. So here I am atSLAC."

Tuskegee Airmen land at SL

COLONEL WILLIAM CAMPBELL, left, and Leslie Williams of tTuskegee Airmen were guest speakers at SLAC as part of the Blackciation of SLAC Employees' Black History Month program. ColoneCampbell was the first Black American to fly a combat mission forArmy Air Force during World War II. Campbell and Williams spolpacked auditorium. Their presentation, which included a video anplays of historical material, served to educate, inform, and enlight(audience about the role of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.

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Information Desk (Marjorie Smart,ext. 3344). Arrangements must bemade by the LBL colleagues foruse of the conference room andservices at LBL.

Desktop VideoThe world is arriving at your

desktop as multimedia technologyrapidly evolves. Currently, SLACis experimenting with desktopvideo conferencing using theInternet multicast backbone(Mbone) as the transmission pathand workstations as the "desk-top." For more information on thedesktop video experiment in theComputer Center, contact CharlieGranieri (ext. 2844).

-Janet Dixon-Dickensand Nina Stolar

Dr. Gordon Ray, MD, Palo AMedical Foundation, RadiatiTherapy Department presen"Risks, Early Detection, andment of Breast and Prostate (Both men and women are weTopics include: risk factors a:tistics; various treatments (ravs. surgery); prevention behEimportance of breast and testself examination, mammogrPSA (prostate-specific antigeexamination. The lecture takApril 25,12-1 pm, in the TraiCenter, Quad A/B. -Sylv

Lock and Tag photos will rissued by the Safety, Healt:Assurance (SHA)Departmein Building 24, Room 225. (Sandra (ext. 4322) or Sharo(ext. 4533) for more inform

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THE SIXTH ANNUAL RexxSymposium will be hosted bySLAC on May 1-3. Meet andexchange ideas with Rexx pro-grammers, implementers ofcommercial and free inter-preters, standards committeemembers, and REXX LanguageAssociation members. Presenta-

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shoe Rexx for OS/2, Windows, AIX,Asso- VM, and intelligent agents;1th US application portabilility and

the US migration; REXX-aware applica-ke to a tions; and REXX in Unix.

Ld dis- Mike Cowlishaw, the origina-n the tor of REXX, is the keynote

-Al Ashley speaker. This year's expandedprogram includes tutorials forthe beginner, intermediate, and

,Ito experienced REXXprogrammer.This is a participatory confer-

ion ence so bring your software and~ts ~ ideas to share.

Treat- You are also invited to attend: ancer /. the meetings of the REXX Lan-elcome! guage Association the evening ofnd sta- May 1, and the ANSI StandardsLdiation X3J18 Committee, April 29-30.aviors: There is no charge for any ofticular these events. For more informa-am, and tion contact Cathie Dager, Sym-_n) posium Founder and Chair, ates place cathie@slac.stanfordining .edu or ext. 2904.ia Ong Registration is required. Send

your name, SLAC address, e-mailaddress, telephone number and

low be fax number by e-mail (preferred)h, and or SLAC mail to mjcrume@slacant staff .stanford.edu or Mary Crume,Call MS 97, or fax 926-3329.

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Recent storms did not stop the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Visitor Center.From left are Nina Stolar, Adele Panofsky, Pief Panofsky, and Glenn Tenney.

AFTER A DECADE OF PLANNING AND WAITING, constructionbegan in late February on a Visitor Center adjacent to the Auditorium.The new center will serve as a "mini science museum" giving visitors andstaff a glimpse of the activities currently conducted here.

Now that the facility is being readied, the exhibit area is in the plan-ning stages. Exhibit organizers hope to provide visitors with a direct con-nection to the "real stuff" of working at a national laboratory. Possibledisplay items include technical hardware such as a klystron tube, acceler-ator and detector components, a TV monitor showing beam-control infor-mation, a computer display of actual SLD events, and a mock SSRLbeam-line display using light rather than x-rays. Posters, historical pho-tographs, and short explanations will augment the displays.

The Visitor Center was approved in concept in 1989. Funding wasapproved in fiscal year 1992, but has only recently been made availablefrom the FY92 General Physical Plant budget-designated by DOE for gen-eral construction projects and not to be used for other purposes.

The center will house a variety of exhibits covering everything fromaccelerator technology to current scientific research-from high-energyphysics experiments to synchrotron sources for materials research andapplied sciences.

The center will also house the skeleton of an ancient marine mammal,the Paleoparadoxia excavated on the SLAC site during initial constructionin the early 1960s. This creature has been reconstructed over many yearsthrough the tireless effort of Adele Panofsky (see article on p. 5).

The success of the Visitor Center rests on it becoming a living part ofthe lab. The initial proposal for the display area will reflect the time andresources available to have an opening within a very short time. Over thelife of the center, it will evolve to include technical innovations and cur-rent scientific efforts. If you have ideas or suggestions concerning poten-tial exhibits contact one of the committee members charged with planninthe exhibits. Committee members include Gordon Bowden, HobieDeStaebler, Thomas Humphries (Staff Physicist at San Francisco'sExnloratorium Museum). P.A. Moore. Tosenh Perl. Inurid Pickering.--rim -^-_--^------.-- -/,- ---r Z -- -- -/ -Helen Quinn, Marc Ross, and Nina Stolar.

The center should act as a self-guided mini tour of SLAC and itsachievements. The new addition will be small, but the exhibits that fill ithave the potential to be very exciting indeed. Jill Mhyre

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Hands-on, open houses to be featuresTake Our Daughters to Work-April

"TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS toWork Day," planned for April 27, isa special event in which partici-pants go with their parents to workinstead of going to school for oneday. The program grew from aword-of-mouth campaign threeyears ago by the Ms. Foundation toinclude over four million girlsworldwide last year. SLAC's event,sponsored by the Women's Inter-change at SLAC, is designed tointroduce young women to SLACand to help them expand theircareer aspirations. The program isintended to encourage, inspire, andintroduce adolescent girls to theworkplace. It will give them achance to experience variouscareers firsthand by accompanyingtheir mom or dad to her or his job.

Who is invited? Girls ages 9through 15. Why girls? Researchreveals that adolescent girls gener-ally have less exposure to andawareness of career options thanadolescent boys.

Visiting a parent's work placewill increase a girl's awareness ofsome of the options that will beopen to her in the future. Thatshould help her to make informedcareer choices.

What will they do at SLAC? Theday will be very busy. The girlswill be taken to the auditorium by8:30 AM to be welcomed to SLACand then split into groups that willalternately take a tour of SLACand participate in hands-on work-shops. They will then reconvene toeat their bag lunch. We are askingthe girls to bring their own lunchthis year. After lunch, parents willpick the girls up and show themthe parent's work area. There thegirls will see the kind of worktheir parent does, and in manycases they will have an opportuni-ty to work alongside their parent.In addition, several departmentsare holding open house between 2and 3 PM. Those open houses willbe announced and a map

Mike in his office last year onTake Our Daughters to Work Day.

provided in the registration infor-mation that will be sent to thedepartments.

If you have questions or wantto volunteer help for that day, callEvelyn Eldridge-Diaz, ext. 4128, ore-mail evelyn@slac.stanford.edu.

Melinda Saltzberg

A Creature in the Works: THREE decades ago dur-excavation effort for theaccelerator twenty-five feetground, the remains of aoric creature were uncov-the SLAC site. These wereined to be a fairly completeones of a Paleoparadoxia.;le Panofsky (wife of Direc-eritus Pief Panofsky) spenttudying Paleontology andon the job training in this

y working with many pro-als to assemble the creature,somewhat resembles abreathing mammal such as amaybe a hypopatamus. Theil bones were donated to them of Paleontology at UC,

Berkeley. In exchange, castingswere returned to the laboratory forassembly on site for an exhibit.

In an unused part of CCR (theold control room for the linac),Adele has worked tirelessly toreconstruct this creature. Usingeverything on hand from the mostadvanced technology available atStanford University (ask about thetime the creature had a cat scan) tothe current techniques in Paleon-tology and modeling, Adele hasdeveloped an interdisciplinarycoalition to complete the project.

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Mentoring: What is it? Who does it?IN JANUARY P.A. Moore spokeabout mentoring to a noon forumsponsored by the Women's Inter-change at SLAC. As the Point ofContact to the DOE for the SLACeducation programs, P.A. Mooreattends annual DOE reviews onwomen's programs in the labs.Mentoring is one of the strate-

-ioc m oninrt-nro h 7 lth- TncOF t7fb(lt, 11L..ILLIII,. .Y I../ 1L.increase women's oppo:ties in DOE-sponsored lIto build diversity in theforce.

She argued that menalready takes place info:and by discussing the reship between mentor antege, she intended to dr;audience's attention to tprocess.

Moore compared theto a coach-someone who isavailable on an ongoing basis toanswer questions and providesupport, honest advice, and"inside" information about thework environment. This brings theprotege up to speed with activitiesin the work place and facilitatesincreased self esteem, more realis-tic career expectations, and anexpanded network which all tendto help the protege become moreproductive.

But the relationship works twoways. In exchange, the protegeprovides the mentor with in-creased perspective, gratification,and an expanded network. Likethe mentor, the protege investstime, energy, honest communica-tion, and respect. Moreover, theprotege usually has the addedresponsibility to "make the firstmove to show seriousness andcommitment." Some mentoringrelationships are initiated by thementor, but traditionally it is theprotege who solicits the help of thementor.

When seeking, initiating, anddeveloping a mentoring relation-ship, it is important for both men-tor and protege to be aware oftheir biases. Everyone has a set ofpreconceptions about things suchas speech patterns, rate of speech,body size, and body language, and

the way these traits relate to quali-ties like intelligence, ability,friendliness and willingness tohelp. The mentoring relationshipworks best when both people real-ize these biases and actively setthem aside.

Moore also pointed out that thesame person can act as a mentor inone relationship and as a protegein another. By working with multi-ple people at multiple levels, indi-viduals can create a network thatties a number of people together.

While recognizing that infor-mal mentoring and mutual assis-tance already take place at SLAC,Moore looked to the audience tosuggest ways to formalize thementoring process. The audiencesuggested compiling a list of will-ing mentors for potential proteges,presenting the benefits of mentor-ing to key managers, and adminis-tering surveys through theInteraction Point or e-mail to studythe extent to which mentoringtakes place already.

One important suggestion wasto provide new employee mentor-ing, which would include a formalorientation to research, a tour, andhelp in adjusting to the organiza-tional culture and the unwrittenrules of SLAC. The goal would beto retain staff, to build networks,

and to the encourage productivi-Lt7 nf n~11 n IAT PvmnlIlTrocQLY V1 CaII 1Lt VV Zlllly CL o.

Moore completed the speechby pointing out that SLAC hasfallen behind other DOE labs inthe areas of formal career devel-opment mentoring and careerplanning. "On the negativeside," she said, "this shouldembarrass us, but on the positiveside, it should get us movingtowards some action."

Her point may be morepoignant because mentoring isnot necessarily expensive. In an

environment where budget cutsthreaten many of the formal affir-mative action programs at SLAC,mentoring is one way not only toprovide support to specifiedgroups, like women, minorities ornew employees, but to networkthe entire community.

-Jill Mhyre

WelcomeGuests andNew EmployeesViktor Alexandrov, ExperimentalGroup I; Tom Banks, Theory;Micha Berkooz, Theory; AndreaDiCicco, SSRL Research; AdrianoFilipponi, SSRL Research; JenniferHuang, PEP-II B Factory; IngridKuehn, Computing Services;Johann (Hans) Kuehn, Theory;Greg Robinson, Metrology; JavierSevilla, Plant Engineering.

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Taming the TigersThere was a time, not long ago,when tigers roamed freely atSLAC. In fact, the year was 1991when a group of inspectors fromthe DOE known as the "TigerTeam" came to SLAC to assess thesite's performance in the areas ofenvironment, safety and health.

Tiger Teams were created bythe DOE to inspect all of thenational labs in order to identifyoperations that put people and theenvironment at risk or that wereout of compliance with applicablelaws or standards. In some cases,Tiger Teams actually closed downentire facilities where safety issueswere not being adequately han-dled. SLAC fared much better thanmany of the labs. Although theTiger Team wrote up 187 findingsin a large report called the "TigerTeam Assessment of the StanfordLinear Accelerator Center," noneof the findings were seriousenough to warrant the curtailmentof any operations at SLAC. Howev-er, the findings did show thatSLAC needed to pay greater atten-tion to environment, safety andhealth issues.

Anyone who was here duringthe Tiger Team era remembers theflurry of activities involved inpreparing for and hosting thetigers. Dealing with those hungryfelines was no easy feat. But SLACsurvived the encounter and grewfrom the experience. Of course, theword "tiger" took on new mean-ings and can never be used atSLAC in polite company again, butlife goes on.

After the Tigers issued theirreport, SLAC was required to pre-pare a Corrective Action Plan(CAP) to address the findings.SLAC's CAP includes 181 tasks thatdeal with the Tiger Team's 187findings (some tasks address morethan one finding). Among the

Tiger Team findings was thatSLAC did not have a systemin place to track the progressof tasks and action plansdesigned to meet the require-ments of various audits, regu-latory requirements, andself-inspections. As a result ofthis finding, a Corrective ActiorManagement System (CAMS) wcreated in the ES&H Division'sPlanning and Assessment Depament.

The CAMS database is used tkeep track of each task in the C,When the system was first estallished, each finding was evaluaand a task leader was selected thelp design and oversee the tasthat deals with that finding. Tasrange from rather simple itemsvery complex projects. They maybe anything from the installationof new safety equipment to theimplementation of an asbestosmanagement plan.

Each CAP task has a milestoneschedule that provides a time-frame for the completion of thetask. By monitoring where eachtask is in relation to its milestoneschedule, and entering this infor-mation into their database, thePlanning and Assessment Depart-ment tracks the progress of eachtask. When a milestone scheduleshows that a task is due to be com-pleted within the next ninety days,the task leader is sent a remindernotice. The task leader responds tothe notice with information aboutthe actual status of the task, andthe database is updated according-ly. When the task leader states thata task has been completed, thetask leader sends brief, supportingdocumentation to the Planningand Assessment Department(PAD). After the PAD staff reviewsthe documentation, it is forwardedto the Associate Director of the

ES&H Division for sign off. Thefinal stage in the close-out of aCAP task occurs when representa-tives from the local DOE Site Officevalidate that the finding has beensatisfactorily resolved.

According to Mary Ross, Headof the Planning and AssessmentDepartment, SLAC has completed136 of the original 181 tasks, and,to date, 44 of these have been vali-dated by the DOE Site Office. Ofthe remaining 45 open CAP tasks,32 have completion dates sched-uled for the future and 13 tasks areoverdue.

In addition to tracking theprogress of the remaining 45 CAPtasks, the Planning and Assess-ment Department tracks theprogress of many non-tiger assess-ments, audits, inspections and reg-ulations. So, while SLAC hassucceeded in addressing many ofthe findings of the Tiger Team,we're not quite out of the jungle.

Jack LaVelle and Melinda Saltzberg

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Communications/Meetings in theTHE LAB OFFERS many types ofelectronic equipment, capabilities,and support services to help facili-tate meetings, conferences, andseminars. Electronic communica-tions capabilities range from oper-ational "plug-and-play" mode tohighly experimental forms. Thebasic categories of lab-wide sup-port are audio-visual services pro-vided by the Public Affairs Officeand audio- and video-teleconfer-encing provided by Telecommuni-cations.

The following descriptions willhelp identify your needs and en-able you to request services in themost direct manner. It is the re-quester's responsibility to reservethe necessary facilities, provide anaccount number for staff support,obtain detailed technical require-ments, and schedule any necessarysetup time. The more clearly yourneeds are presented, the better wecan provide support for your activ-ity. Lead time to accommodate spe-cial requests is always an asset andproviding appropriate details inadvance will save time during theactual event.

Audio-VisualAudio-visual support services

range from providing technicalexpertise to scheduling audio-visual operators for videotapingseminars or technical documenta-tion projects. Audio-Visual Ser-vices are provided by the PublicAffairs Office (Herbert McIntye,ext. 4787).

The Auditorium is equippedwith an audio-video recordingsystem including a video projectorfor large screen video or computerprojection. A live program in theAuditorium can be routed to theOrange Room and can also betransmitted to Lawrence BerkeleyLaboratory (LBL). Setup and testtime are required to assure perfor-

mance for meetings and seminars.To reserve the SLAC Auditori-

um, please call the Public AffairsOffice (ext. 2204). You will beasked what form your event willtake, the number of attendees, andthe required audio-visual support.Audio-visual equipment otherthan an overhead transparencyprojector requires an operator, forwhich you will need to provide anaccount number.

Satellite BroadcastingIn addition to the meeting and

conference facilities, the Auditori-um now houses a 260-channelsatellite receiving system. Typical-ly, this system is used for receiv-ing DOE meetings conducted inWashington, DC using satellitebroadcast technology. It can beused for other satellite broadcastprograms that SLAC would like toreceive. These programs are rout-ed to the Auditorium controlroom for video recording and tothe Auditorium and/or theOrange Room for viewing.Requests for meetings that includesatellite broadcast are forwardedto the Public Affairs Office at thetime the Auditorium is reserved.

Video ConferencingVideo conferencing (circuit-

based or switched) is available forpoint-to-point and multi-pointconferences where both audio andvideo are required. The VideoConferencing Service at SLAC ispart of the Energy Research VideoNetwork (ERVN). The central hubfor this network is located atLawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory. Over 30 universitiesand labs globally are connectedthrough ERVN. To schedule avideo conference, contact the SCSHelp Desk (ext. 2406) at least 24hours in advance.

Specific requirements have tobe provided before a conference

Electronics Agecan be scheduled in the automatedscheduling system. These includeconference title, date and time;conference requester (end user)and e-mail address; conferenceattendee (or leader) and e-mailaddress; and remote site(s) roomcoordinator(s) contact informa-tion. It is the requester's responsi-bility to reserve remote siteroom(s) and alert Telecommunica-tions of any special requirements.(For more detail, see SLAC BusinessBriefs, Vol. 2, No. 2, February 1995.)

TeleconferencingOn-site participants can initiate

a telephone conference call (audioonly) with several off-site parties.Teleconferencing calls can easilybe established using any SLACtelephone that has the appropriateclass of service for the call (forexample, long distance or interna-tional calling privileges). A table-top voice-point teleconferencingunit can be connected to the on-site telephone that amplifies thecommunication to and from theoff-site participants. Anothermechanism for establishing a tele-conference call with people atmultiple sites is a "meet me"bridge-type of arrangement."Meet me" bridger conferencecalls require using commercialnetwork services. Fran Balkovich(ext. 3806) can help you makethose arrangements for "meetbridge" conference calls andanswer any other questions youmay have about teleconferencing.

Microwave link to LBLSLAC has a dedicated two-way

audio-video microwave confer-ence system in the Yellow Roomfor meetings with LawrenceBerkeley Laboratory (LBL). Reser-vations are made for the micro-wave link by contacting the A&E

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