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Support for UK National Eclipse Ballooning Project Team
PI Sean Bailey
ABSTRACT
The National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) is a NASA Science Mission Directorate Sci-
Act funded effort seeks to leverage the confluence of scientific ballooning and the phenomena of
the solar eclipse to promote science education and involvement. This will be done through
participation in a nationwide data acquisition and analysis campaign seeking to measure the
impact of the eclipse on atmospheric properties during the 10/14/2023 annular and 4/8/2024 total
solar eclipses. This particular proposed effort seeks to support the UK team of undergraduate
students who have been selected to represent the University of Kentucky in the NEBP. Funds
will be used to support student training, materials and supplies, travel and participation in the
summer workshop to be hosted by University of Kentucky in Summer 2023 in preparation for
the October 2023 annular eclipse.
The student team members will be part of a `pod'' of researchers from North Dakota, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Texas and Kentucky and will learn alongside these other teams how to conduct
radiosonde weather balloon launches in support of the science effort, how to measure the
atmospheric response to the sharp transition in solar radiation, and receive training on the data
analysis and data management required by such a large-scale project. As such, the team project is
well aligned with the NASA Kentucky Space Grant Data+Science and Earth+Space themes.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/23 → 6/30/24 |
Funding
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Projects
- 1 Active
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NASA Kentucky Space Grant Consortium Program 2020-2024
Martin, A. (PI), Renfro, M. (CoI) & Smith, S. (CoI)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2/4/20 → 2/3/26
Project: Research project