Gemini Strategic Vision

2025 Strategic Vision Survey

Survey is now open! Share your thought by June 12, 2025

The International Gemini Observatory is developing its long-range vision for the next decade. Gemini’s new Strategic Vision will guide us as we anticipate the needs of our user community and stakeholders for the next decade and beyond. This is an exciting opportunity to set the path for building new capabilities, updating the Observatory operations, and reviewing our scientific priorities.

We seek broad input from the entire astronomical community, including students, early-career researchers, and established scientists, to shape Gemini’s future contribution to astronomical discoveries. How do you envision Gemini complementing the upcoming new ground- and space-based mission? What new facilities, including the next major instrument(s), Gemini should invest in? Whether you are a frequent Gemini user or have never used our telescopes, share your perspective with us by completing this survey before June 12, 2025.

You can review the current Gemini Strategic Science Plan, which guides the Observatory through the 2020s.

Over the past 12 month, we solicited input from the community through:

• Hosting virtual Town Halls, in which we reviewed the upgrades to be completed by Gemini Observatory by 2028 and seek input on new instrumentation and major capabilities upgrades to continue advancing scientific discovery in the upcoming decade. A copy of the presentation can be found here. A recording is available at this link; 
• Welcoming Community Brief Recommendations, to address which areas of growth and development Gemini should consider;
• The resut from last year’s survey are also available. 

The recommendations from the Community Briefs were reviewed by the Gemini Strategic Science Plan Working Group, which included Gemini users, representative of all the Observatory Partners. The members of the Gemini Strategic Science Plan Working Group are: Gisella De Rosa (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA) - Chair; Breann Sitarski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA); Jennifer A. Burt (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy (Mc Gill University, Canada); Dustin Lang (University of Waterloo, Canada); Tomas Puzia (Pontificia Universidad Catolia, Chile); Marianne Takamiya (University of Hawaii, USA); Luan Ghezzi (Federal University of Rio der Janeiro, Brazil); Victoria Reynaldi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina); Ho Seong Hwang (Seoul National University, Korea). For the Gemini Observatory: Elena Sabbi, Siyi Xu, Monika Soraisam, Bryan MillerYou can review the summary of last year’s survey, and the current Gemini Strategic Science Plan, which guides the Observatory through the 2020s.