Cycle 5: Pickering - Spectroscopy tool development and community outreach

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+### Title
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+Development, Coordination, and Community Engagement involving specreduce and other spectroscopy-related tools by Timothy Pickering
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+### Project Team
+Timothy Pickering
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+### Project Description
+This is to continue specreduce development and outreach that was carried out in previous cycles.
+
+### Roadmap Items
+- :large_orange_diamond: Improve support for reading and writing ASDF throughout the Astropy ecosystem (e.g., coordinated packages).
+    - Support for 2D spectroscopic data is still only in draft form for FITS WCS. A more flexible format is needed to accurately serialize the kinds of complicated WCS models that spectroscopy requires. ASDF provides this and support for it needs to be expanded within both specreduce and specutils.
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+### Project / Work
+Some specific areas that we expect to tackle during the coming cycle include:
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+* Automatic wavelength calibration using existing templates (i.e. "reidentify", or "full template" from pypeit)
+* Port core functionality from other data reduction pipelines were appropriate
+* Improved WCS tools and expanded examples of their use within spectroscopic contexts; add ASDF support
+* Support for / workflows with multi-object spectrographs
+* Support for fiber-based spectrographs, both single and multi-object as well as fiber-based IFUs
+* Continued/expanded outreach to observatories and software projects (e.g. PypeIt & DRAGONS) to improve integration and workflows
+* Expand outreach to and collaboration with EPRV spectroscopy community
+* Participate in spectroscopy and astropy dev calls and tag-ups
+
+### Approximate Budget
+Currency: US $15360
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+- Salary: US $15360 (based on 128 hours at current contracted rate of $120/hour)
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+### Period of Performance
+Jan 1, 2026 through Dec 31, 2026