HR: 0830h
AN: SH11A-06 [Abstracts]
TI: THEMIS Ground Based Magnetometers and the Involvement of GEONS Schools
AU: * Craig, N
EM: ncraig@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 United States
AU: Peticolas, L
EM: laura@sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 United States
AU: Shutkin, A
EM: amygeons@yahoo.com
AF: University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 United States
AU: Dearborn, D
EM: ddearbor@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: University of California, Los Angeles, IGPP, Los Angeles, CA 90095
AU: Pierce, D
EM: dpierce@varametrix.com
AF: University of California, Los Angeles, IGPP, Los Angeles, CA 90095
AU: Odenwald, S
EM: odenwald@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Astronomy Cafe, 9717 Culver Street, Kensington, MD 20895 United States
AU: Orr, L
EM: lorr@ukiah.k12.or.us
AF: Ukiah School, 201 Hill Street, Ukiah, OR 97880 United States
AU: Gehman, W
EM: wkgehman@gwtc.net
AF: Red Cloud High School, 100 Mission Drive, Pine Ridge, SD 57770 United States
AU: DeWolf, C
EM: cdewolf@chsd.us
AF: Chippewa Hills High School, 3226 Arthur Road, Remus, MI 49340-9542 United States
AU: Walker, A
EM: CornerEval@aol.com
AF: Cornerstone Evaluation Associates LLC, 205 Peddlar Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-1975 United States
AB:
The THEMIS Education and Public Outreach team selected ten ground-based magnetometer stations each located in the proximity
of a rural school in traditionally under-served, under-represented communities from Alaska to Vermont. These `ground based
magnetometer' observatories will assist the THEMIS Mission's five identical satellites, called probes, when they are launched in the fall of 2006. The five probes, placed in strategic locations in Earth's magnetosphere, will help to determine the
onset of auroral substorms. A teacher at each of these schools is responsible for their magnetometer data and system as well as using the data with their students through lesson plans developed collaboratively with the E/PO team. The network of
teachers, students, and magnetometers together with other students who participate in monitoring the geomagnetic disturbances using the web is called the Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS). We will report specific contributions to the project from the Oregon, South Dakota and Michigan GEONS teachers. We have installed five magnetometers during the
Fall of 2004, and will be installing the remaining five in the Spring of 2005, and have started to display the data from the
first five schools on the web. We will describe the pedagogical challenges of bringing understanding of the physics behind
the THEMIS science which requires some understanding of magnetic fields, charged particles, forces, motions, and energy to
middle school and high school classrooms. We will also include the formative evaluation results to date.
UR: http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/themis/schools/geons_schools.html
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 0925 Magnetic and electrical methods
DE: 0994 Instruments and techniques
DE: 2704 Auroral phenomena (2407)
DE: 2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly