auroras<\/a>.<\/p>\nFrissell and his students can detect disturbances through their ham radio signals. When the aurora borealis was visible in Northeast Pennsylvania about a year ago, students could hear radio signals flutter, Frissell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpace weather is any time where some event from space, especially from the sun and solar wind, has some sort of an impact on our technology, and that could affect satellites. It could affect radio signals going through the atmosphere,\u201d he said. \u201cIt can even affect how our power is distributed from the power plant to your home.\u201d<\/p>\n
National reach<\/p>\n
The project will bring scientific discovery out of research laboratories and into schools, libraries, museums and communities across the nation.<\/p>\n
Collaborating institutions include the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Space Science Institute, MIT Haystack Observatory, University of Alabama and New Jersey Institute of Technology. The grant totals $5,495,781 and will be administered as a five-year agreement through 2031.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s amazing that we’re able to be entrusted with these large resources and to lead a national team,\u201d Frissell said. \u201cBeing the leader of this, it’s a large responsibility. But it’s also really exciting \u2026 It really shows that we are a leader in this field, and it really means that our hard work is paying off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rev. Joseph G. Marina, S.J., president of the University of Scranton, said the school is honored to be chosen by NASA and to work alongside such \u201cdistinguished institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder Dr. Frissell\u2019s leadership, the station has become a center for discovery and innovation, connecting students, faculty and the public with a global community of amateur radio operators and citizen scientists in the pursuit of knowledge,\u201d Marina said in a statement. \u201cThe university\u2019s commitment to amateur radio is rooted in the belief that meaningful research and hands-on learning can advance scientific understanding while serving the common good. This NASA cooperative agreement is a powerful affirmation of that vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDiscovery Stations\u201d at public venues will allow visitors to see real-time space weather data. Approximately 85 Citizen Science Space Weather Monitors will be distributed throughout the country, collecting data on radio signals and ionospheric conditions, contributing observations to a national research network while also serving as education tools for the public.<\/p>\n
The American Radio Relay League Teachers Institute will provide educators with curriculum materials that will connect classroom lessons to live NASA data.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy distributing our personal space weather station receivers around the world and analyzing the data that we get back from them, we work to better understand many of the complexities of the upper atmosphere,\u201d Frissell said.<\/p>\n
Inspiring students<\/p>\n
Frissell\u2019s first exposure to ham radio was on a Boy Scout trip in middle school. That opportunity inspired him, eventually leading him to study space weather in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
Now at the university, he inspires students to study the world around them \u2014 and the atmosphere above them.<\/p>\n
Liam Miller is the president of the amateur radio club and helps Frissell with the research. The sophomore physics and philosophy student from Honesdale works on models to better understand solar flares.<\/p>\n
He called working on NASA-funded research a \u201cdream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is awe-inspiring that I have this opportunity to do something on such a big project and on a global scale like this, especially at the University of Scranton,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From an amateur radio station at the University of Scranton, faculty, students and the public plan to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-312980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}