How many staff members work at the CSO?
Compared with other observatories at the mountain Mauna Kea, the CSO group is relatively small. As of June 2005, 11 staff members and one volunteer are working at Hilo, about 13 staff members working at Caltech Pasadena campus. The director of the observatory is Dr. Tom Phillips, professor at the Physics Department (part of the Division of Physics Mathematics, and Astronomy(PMA)), California Institute of Technology.