HR: 11:30h
AN: ED12A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Designing Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitors -- a Unique Collaboration Between Scientists and Educators
AU: * Scherrer, D
EM: dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Mitchell, R
EM: rmitchell@sun.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Clark, W
EM: superdulie@hotmail.com
AF: San Leandro High School, 2200 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro, CA 94577 United States
AU: Styner, R
EM: styner@hotmail.com
AF: San Leandro High School, 2200 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro, CA 94577 United States
AU: Scherrer, P
EM: pscherrer@solar.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Inan, U
EM: inan@nova.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, EE Department Packard Bldg. 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-9515 United States
AU: Cohen, M
EM: mcohen@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, EE Department Packard Bldg. 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-9515 United States
AU: Tan, J
EM: jhtan@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, EE Department Packard Bldg. 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-9515 United States
AU: Lee, S
EM: shannonl@sun.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Khanal, S
EM: sharadkhanal@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Winegarden, S
EM: scottw@sun.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Mortfield, P
EM: Paul@backyardastronomer.com
AF: Stanford University, HEPL-4085 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AB: Funding agencies such as NASA and NSF encourage E/PO programs to provide local educators with research experience. However, many researchers have neither the time nor the expertize nor the training resources to effectively incorporate an educator into their computer- and numerical-analysis-based research environments. Stanford's Solar Center has been experimenting with a unique project that teams community college and high school educators with research groups to develop a hands-on instrument that the educators's students can, in turn, use to conduct their own research. With support from the researchers, the Educators design, develop, and classroom-test a VLF radio receiver that monitors changes to the Earth's ionosphere caused by solar activity. The educators bring to the table their knowledge of classroom needs plus their amateur background in electronics. Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department's Very Low Frequency Group provides EE resources and knowledge of ionospheric research. Stanford's Solar Observatories Group completes the team with their expertize on the Sun and solar activity. Together, the project team has designed and developed two forms of monitors: 1) an inexpensive Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) monitor that can be produced in quantity and made available to high schools and community colleges around the nation; and 2) a research quality SID monitor, nicknamed AWESOME, that can be placed in selected schools and will return data of sufficient quality and sensitivity that it can be used both by the students and for ionospheric research.
UR: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 2400 IONOSPHERE
DE: 6900 RADIO SCIENCE
DE: 7500 SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly