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The MARIACHI ProjectForefront Science by Scientists, Teachers, and
Students
Helio Takai
Special Symposium on Educational and Public Outreach
June 9, 2010
http://www-mariachi.physics.sunysb.edu/
Practice SciencePoor Social Skills
Brain washed
Scientists TeachersEducate
Good Social SkillsStructured Career
Students
Illustrations by Omal-Hoda Kassim, Syracuse
High Expectations!
Knowledge
Authentic Science in the classroom
Eureka!
I have a question!
Huh? ???
Huh????
Science !
Cosmic Rays
1/m2/s 1/m2/year 1/km2/year 1/
electron-volts
UHECR ShowerIncident Wave
Scattered Wave
Shower Detector RCRS Detector
Distant Transmitter
5 scintillators per site,
multiple sites
4 radar sites
GPS Timing
Scintillator
Light-tightstudent prooflockable case
See-throughPMT assembly
SPIDA - Simple Prototype Inverted Dipole Antenna
http://www.custerobservatory.org
Prototype $3.50, SPIDA 2 $100,Picture of SPIDA from Brazil - priceless
Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation ofAtmospheric Cosmic -rays of High Ionization
Status - 13 shower detectors connected
Science Results?
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Radar-scintillator coincidences found in 2 weeks of run.
Are they Real??
WF2XHR
~50 km
Japan, Korea, China, U.S. , Taiwan, and RussiaM. Fukushima, P. Sokolsky and G. Thomson
Where are we going?Delta, UT
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Averaged Flux of Vertical Component of Magnetic Field Strength over 24 Hours
Brian Remlinger 7
Figure 5. Pressure adjusted counts and flux of vertical component of magnetic field strength averaged by time of day.
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Averaged Flux of Vertical Component of Magnetic Field Strength over 24 Hours
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Figure 5. Pressure adjusted counts and flux of vertical component of magnetic field strength averaged by time of day.
Cosmic ray measurement at
Smithtown HS East
Geomagnetic Field atFredericksburg, VA
~2000
6 month averages
The electric Earth
Cosmicinfluences on
the atmosphereA new generation of tools for examining the global
atmosphere is transforming our understanding of therole of electricity in the Earth’s climate. Neil Arnoldand Torsten Neubert review this developing field.
Astronomy and Geophysics, 43:6.9-6.12, 2002
Educational Results?
The Nerd - Wants to do research projects, will spend summers working at research institutions
The Enthusiast - Really loves science, will participate in short term projects, but wants to have time for surfing.
The Public - They are OK with science as long as it doesn’t take time away from football, baseball and basketball.
They ALL need to be exposed to science.
The Nerd
The Enthusiast
The Enthusiast
The Public
Research Students: Significant fraction pursuing science and technology careers. Noticeable population of students who start undergraduate research as freshman. Past students help younger students (via email, social networks, chat, skype).
What??
Yep!
Hey Megan,I wonder how
real research is...
Not sureOma, we are
Mangacharacters....
Science awareness. Exercise creativity. Proper use of computing tools, e.g. data handling, plots, wiki, collaborative tools. Team work !
Increase of technology use in classroom (vc, poll everywhere, doodle... ), science methodology, participation in scientific events and professional conferences, publish educational papers, organization of physics related events, PhD in Science Education...
Awareness of the current situation of education. Better communication skills. Opportunity to help educators. Many opportunities for outreach events. MARIACHI is a meeting place!
Summary
•MARIACHI, a forefront experiment built by a collaboration formed by teachers, students and scientists. It is very important for E/O programs to have science as a driver.
•Science results obtained by us sparked a flurry of activities at U of Utah and U of Tokyo. Currently a dedicated radar is being installed at the Telescope Array facility in Delta, Utah.
•Strategies for data analysis involving entire classrooms have been developed by educators. It has educational and scientific value.
• It has generated interest, particularly in small colleges, community colleges, a variety of high schools, and attracted volunteers!
•Where do we go from here?