Program: GN-2017B-Q-32

We request high cadence monitoring of the "changing look" AGN Mrk 1018, whose central engine is currently underoing dramatic re-ignition after a recent drop in luminosity. This source was one of the first-known changing look AGN, having converted from a Type 1.9 to a Type 1 in 1984. In 2015, our observations from the Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS) discovered that it had changed back to a Type 1.9 after thirty stable years. Immediate follow-up showed that the dimming by a factor of 10 is related to an intrinsic fading of the accretion disc, and not caused by an obscuring cloud in the torus. We were stunned to recently learn that Mrk1018 reached a minimum brightness end of November 2016, and is now re-brightening *again* at a rate of ~0.23mag/month. We urgently propose a systematic photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaign with GMOS, enabling high-cadence (~2 week) observations as its nucleus re-ignites. With this short cadence over a long temporal baseline, we will be able to map the kinematics of the BLR through reverberation mapping, and test whether a circumnuclear outflow or a binary black hole interaction is responsible for variability in the accretion disc luminosity.