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The Space Weather Monitor Project: bringing hands-on science to students of the developing world for the IHY2007

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Deborah Scherrer ,
M. Cristina Rabello-Soares  and
Cherilynn Morrow
Deborah Scherrer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Solar Physics, HEPL-4085, Stanford, CA 94305-4085, USA, dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu
M. Cristina Rabello-Soares
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Solar Physics, HEPL-4085, Stanford, CA 94305-4085, USA, dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu
Cherilynn Morrow
Affiliation:
Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut Street, Suite 205, Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA, morrow@SpaceScience.org
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Abstract

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Stanford's Solar Center, Electrical Engineering Department, and local educators have developed inexpensive Space Weather Monitors that students around the world can use to track solar- and lightning-induced changes to the Earth's ionosphere. Through the United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative (UNBSSI) and the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) Education and Public Outreach programme, our Monitors are being deployed to 191 countries. In partnership with Chabot Space and Science Center, we are designing and developing classroom and educator support materials to accompany the distribution. Materials will be culturally sensitive and will be translated into the six official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish). Monitors will be provided free of charge to developing nations and can be set up anywhere there is access to power.

Keywords

educationSunsolar-terrestrial relationsEarthmiscellaneous
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Special Session SPS5: Astronomy for the developing world , August 2006 , pp. 303 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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