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Susan Avery Jicamarca Friend |
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| 50 years for Jicamarca! What a wonderful time to celebrate all of the accomplishments made possible by the facility. | |
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Prabhat Rastogi Ex Jicamarca |
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| I was fortunate to spend about eight months at the Observatory during 1971-72, under the tutelage of Dr. R. F. Woodman, as a graduate student from the University of Illinois. I returned again in 1975 as a post-doc. My collaboration with Dr. Woodman, and others from and associated with Jicamarca, continued when I spent a year at Arecibo on leave from the University of Tromso in 1979-80 and in subsequent years. I think of these years as intellectually some of the most rewarding periods of my life, when I also had the opportunity to meet also with scientists visiting there from all over the world. Prabhat Rastogi | |
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Jϋrgen Röttger Jicamarca Friend |
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| I congratulate the Jicamarca Radio Observatory for 50 years of highest level ionosphere and atmosphere research as well as the implementation of new leading hardware and software developments ... and wish you all another 50 years of world leading studies of our Earth’s environment. |
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R. G. Rastogi Jicamarca Friend |
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| Dear Jicamarca, Your invitation to JRO is nostalgic to me. I had attended the first ISEA in 1962 on the invitation of Alberto and I had to arrive in Lima without any visa.I still remember Chapman,Matsushita,Farley Chernosky Cohen and many of our friends who are not with us now. Next time I visited Lima for URSI meetings and on the kind offer of Mrs Carajavo to stay in her palace I stayed in Lima for couple of month and did some analysis of JRO data. I was overwhelmed with the kind coopeations from Woodman Casaverde,Fedrico and others.This completely changed the course of my research interests and I could write up some good papers.I had so much freedom then that I returned to India after four months moving to NASA,Boulder,Boston and Paris. I retired from the directorship of Indian Institute of Geomagnetism in 1989 and since then I am a emeritus scientist at PRL. I wish both the ISEA nd JRO 50th anniversary a great success. |
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Yen-Hsyang Chu Jicamarca Friend |
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| Thank you so much for your invitation to the Jicamarca's 50th anniversary. I still remember the days from April to July in 1987 when I was doing my PhD thesis at JRO under instruction and guidance from Dr.Ronald Woodman. I had a wonderful and fruitful experience in Peru that really helped me to establish my academic career. As one of the users and beneficiaries from JRO, it will be my great pleasure to attend the commemorative meeting. | |
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AKSHAY R MALHOTRA --- |
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| I want to congratulate you and the entire Jicamarca team for JRO completing 50 years. I owe a lot to Jicamarca and still fondly remember the time I spent there......the discussions with you and Dr. Woodman, ceviche, larcomar....and of course, pisco sour!! I know the conference starts from tomorrow and you must be very busy in organizing it. I am sure it will be a great success!! Congratulations once again! Keep in touch. Best Regards, Akshay. |
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Darwin Córdova Electronic Engineer - Area R & D & i - ROJ |
| within the moments that they captured to me of Jicamarca, I remember the first time I arrived at Jicamarca, the first thing I saw was solitude and aridity of the landscape, which made me remember the pictures of Mars, it tells me where I was going to work, it was also special, and I should not be wrong. The first impression within the Observatory was a greater surprise to the previous one; surprise by the level of theoretical and practical knowledge that they transmitted all in its respective areas; surprise of the camaraderie, despite showing a lot of shyness: surprise by the immensity of the facilities. I felt that I was entering a new study center again, a new university, a center of knowledge, to the postgraduate course of my career, my life. |
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Oscar Veliz Area CIELO - ROJ |
| I came to Jicamarca together with the team of the Digisonda in the middle of 1992. In that time, I was employed for the IGP at the headquarter of Huancayo. Due to the problems of the terrorism that was reigning there in those years from 1988. I was being employed half a month in Huancayo and half a month at the Observatory of Ancon, that is to say that I was traveling all the time. How I arrived at Jicamarca part of 1981 when Dr. Woodman visited the Obs. and talking with him, he invited me to visit Jicamaraca for 2 months with the plan of staying there, but eventually I returned to Huancayo. Later in 1992 I found out about the arrival of the Digisonda to the ROJ and talking again with Dr. Woodman told him now I'm staying, and so far I'm here. Then luckily I could continue with the magnetometers that were my specialty in Huancayo, and we are now with optical instruments. |
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Patricia Gonzales Administration Area – ROJ |
| I remember, about 6 to 7 years ago, after finishing lunch, gathered in one end of the court of football a group of people to tell jokes. They were: Ramon Ilma, Victor Dávila, José Zegarra, Américo Huamani (usual), some people do not remember and probably out of curiosity came to hear laughter of those who were there. Personally, I laughed a lot and forgot that a little bit of discomfort at that time of going through my pregnancy. In the corner, it was ripe for the meeting, there were two placed seats removed from a truck out of service. That helped us clear quickly, besides having a good time to make a good desktop. |
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Roxana Guardamino Chief of Administration – ROJ |
| For my work I have to contact the ROJ, meeting and / or receive various companies and always, always repeat guests feel very curious especially when they hear the word "scientific" and to launch various views and personal questions about them. They make me feel that I work near very important people and of course it is. And if we add to this that the ROJ is located in a quiet, secluded place so the comments and curiosity increase. | |
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Karim Kuyeng Electronics Engineer- Chief of Operations – ROJ |
| I arrived at Jicamarca by chance, through the Perseus Project, I saw an ad at my university that said of a project involving NASA and without thinking Jicamarca postulate without knowing that it was also part of the project. The first time I went to Jicamarca, I was immediately impressed by the place, as someone once said, an oasis in the mountains. By twist of fate, then project that almost 7 years ago, I was working in Jicamarca and now I work in the area of radar operators, an area which brings out the best and worst of you, many times things of stress, and all who work with me can say it. This was my second job out of college and has changed my way of seeing things. I am always amazed at the kindness and generosity that can be found here. If you need help on anything you can always find at least one person who is willing to help. I do not know that it makes a worker of Jicamarca feels like Jicamarquino, but nobody can deny that the work thereit is something special, something that many of us are proud of belonging to a completely different place to rest. For my part, I declare myself a fan of Jicamarca, for all that involves, it does not only give opportunities to engineers who want something different but a variety of other professionals in this site found a place to learn and develop. I hope that this feeling is not only mine but that of many others. Jicamarca is my second house, my second home, and I say this not only by the time I spend there working, but for what I have learned professionally, and because I have known many people who also made me grow personally, for which always take me to Jicamarca. | |
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Miguel Leiva Ex Jicamarca |
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I celebrate with joy and longing the existence of a place like the Jicamarca Radio Observatory, where young engineers can have a professional and even personal development in an environment dedicated to science and engineering. Jicamarca could abstract away much of our work that I remember that at a meeting in the conference room, take your eyes down and I realized I had the means deshermanadas and many different colors, or even clearly remember at least two occasions in which Dr. Woodman told him that had the pole or the sweater inside out. Finally held Jicamarca Radio Observatory have had the opportunity to work with really valuable partners and especially with Dr. Woodman who is best represented and that even now my wife and my children are grown, remember with joy for the years beyond 80, the weekend that leads to Jicamarca as children to spend the day while working. |
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Jaime “Jimmy” Lau Ex Jicamarca |
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Jicamarca where I was forged as a professional. Work in the ROJ for six years, from July 2002 to October 2008, starting as an intern to become a chief of the systems area. It was the start of several events: personally, Jicamarca was my first job with real responsibilities and a routine schedule, while for the ROJ, I have understood I was the first professional studies in Computer Science and Systems, so I had to start many projects from scratch since there was no one to take the post. A part of the work related to my career, ROJ provided support and confidence so that I could exercise my hobbies and contribute to the institution, so also did graphic design work, translation, collaborative care visits and events, tasks extracurricular constantly kept me motivated. One project I remember with great satisfaction was made for the event that MST10 in Piura in 2002, and it was pretty full and I could apply my skills, from designing the website and database control participants and registration materials, as seen during the course of the event, and then collecting documents and photographs to launch a book and CD. On my co-workers, from practitioners to the chiefs and the director, apart from the quality of professionalism, I must emphasize the atmosphere of camaraderie and sense of equality promoted by the staff constantly, no feelings of envy witnessed labor or superiority. Since I still maintain contact with several of my former colleagues, and knowing that all is well, I dedicate these last lines to my former colleague, friend, and godmother of all young people who went through the ROJ until their departure, the dear Miss Gloria Chia. But overall, the Jicamarca Radio Observatory and the people who made it what it is, always will be part of my memories. |
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