HR: 15:25h
AN: SM13D-07    [Abstracts]
TI: THEMIS Education and Public Outreach: Multi-point investigations of Earth's magnetic field changes from ground-based magnetometers by teachers and students
AU: * Peticolas, L M
EM: laura@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley, 7 Gauss Way, MC 7450, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, United States
AU: Moldwin, M B
EM: mmoldwin@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Box 951567, Los Angeles, CA 90095- 1567, United States
AU: Odenwald, S
EM: odenwald@astronomycafe.net
AF: Astronomy Cafe, 9717 Culver St, Kensington, MD 20895-3654, United States
AU: Trautman, V
EM: vtrautman@psgsd.k12.ak.us
AF: Petersburg City Schools, P.O. Box 289, Petersburg, AK 99833, United States
AU: DeWolf, C
EM: cdewolf@chsd.us
AF: Chippewa Hills High School, 3326 Arthur Road, Remus, MI 49340, United States
AU: Bean, J
EM: Jbean@carson.k12.nv.us
AF: Carson High School, 1111 North Saliman Rd, Carson City, NV 89702, United States
AU: Orr, L
EM: Laura.Orr@ukiah.k12.or.us
AF: Ukiah School, 201 Hill Street PO Box 218, Ukiah, OR 97880, United States
AU: Walker, A
EM: CornerEval@aol.com
AF: Cornerstone Evaluation Associates LLC, 205 Peddler Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-1975, United States
AU: Russell, C T
EM: ctrussel@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Box 951567, Los Angeles, CA 90095- 1567, United States
AU: Angelopoulos, V
EM: vassilis@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Box 951567, Los Angeles, CA 90095- 1567, United States
AB: The THEMIS ground-based magnetometer array together with an extensive THEMIS all-sky camera array in Canada and Alaska, will be used to determine the onset of substorms when the five THEMIS satellites are conjugate to these stations in the magnetotail. The magnetometer array is unique in that 12 of the 20 magnetometers are located at schools (primarily high schools) in the Northern United States as part of the THEMIS Education and Public Outreach program. This is the first NASA mission to place research-grade scientific instruments at schools and to have students and their teachers use the data from these instruments. Because the twelve magnetometers that are housed in schools are research-grade magnetometers, teachers and students are learning about substorms using the same data which scientists use. The magnetometer data and being part of the THEMIS team have inspired students and teachers around the country to learn about multipoint measurements, magnetism, auroral physics, and space physics in general. We will present an overview of this program including the teacher guides developed for this program, discuss the positive impact of the program on the participating teachers and students, and describe how we will broaden the participation in the program in the future years. We will also discuss the research that the teachers and students have undertaken using multipoint magnetometer measurements. THEMIS has several other components to its E/PO program, but we will focus on this magnetometer school network. Scientists interested in contributing to THEMIS E/PO should contact us. Visit http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis for more information on the THEMIS E/PO program.
UR: http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2790 Substorms
DE: 2799 General or miscellaneous
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting