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MAST Survey 2025
MAST Survey
This is a short, 6 question survey that will help us learn more about how you use MAST. We will use this information to improve our tools and better support the science community.
1.
What is your career level?
10+ Years as Professor / Research staff – I work at an educational or research institution
Less than 10 Years as Professor / Research staff – I work at an educational or research institution
Post-doctoral researcher
Graduate Student – I study astronomy or related field
Student – I am an undergraduate or high school student
Other (please specify)
2.
What is your affiliation?
Research Institute | Observatory | lab
PHD or masters granting university
Bachelors granting college
Community college
High school
Non-academic business
Other (please specify)
3.
Which of the following have you used to learn about a new MAST data search or analysis tool? (please select all that you have used)
MAST Newsletter
Conference Booth (AAS, IAU)
Word of mouth
Social media
MAST led workshop (J-Webinar, AAS workshop)
Grad school classes
YouTube video
Other (please specify)
4.
I access MAST data through:
API (scripting like Astroquery)
A web search tool (like MAST search or the Portal)
Both
5.
Have you analyzed MAST data in the cloud? (such as
TIKE
or AWS)
No
Yes (Which platform do you use?)
6.
Have you used MAST notebook tutorials? (such as the
ones on our github
)
No
Yes (Which notebook(s) did you use?)
7.
How can MAST better help you do science? If you could dream up any new feature or tool in MAST, what would it be? Anything else you would like to share with us?