Details

What

A Science Teacher Workshop for eight teachers (5 High School, 2 Middle School, and 1 Museum Education Specialist) will consist of an intensive three days of training on building, testing, and using a search coil magnetometer to study the Sun-Earth Connection.

Who

Sponsors: UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Space Physics, NSF and NOAA’s Space Environment Center

Hosts: Mark Moldwin, UCLA, IGPP, Los Angeles CA 90095-1567, (310) 825-5556, mmoldwin@igpp.ucla.edu, Barbara Poppe, NOAA SEC, Douglas Hill, Advanced Electronic Packaging, Hamid Rassoul, Florida Institute of Technology, Physics and Space Sciences

When

July 24 - 26, 2002

Tuesday: Arrival in LA and check in at the Hotel Del Capri (see http://www.hoteldelcapri.com/ for directions and other information. Reservations under your names have already been made.)

Wednesday: 8:30am Workshop Welcome and Logistics
9:00am Goal of Workshop and Reports from Teachers
10:15am Break
10:30am Review of Science
12:00 Lunch on campus
1:30pm Review of Electronics
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Overview of Magnetometer
5:00pm Discussion

7:00pm Dinner together at Westwood Brew Pub

Thursday: 8:30am Using your Data Acquisition Card for Testing
10:30 Break
10:45 Basic Electronics Review
12:15 Lunch on campus
1:30pm Assembly and testing of amplifier
3:30pm Break
3:45pm Assembly and testing of cores
5:30-6:00 Discussion

Dinner on own

Friday: 8:30am Assembly and testing of filters
10:30 Break
10:45 Complete magnetometer testing
12:15 Lunch on campus
1:30pm Data taking and analysis overview
3:30 Break
3:45 Plans for Space Weather Month 2003
5:00-5:30 Discussion

7:00pm Dinner out together at Jerry’s Famous Deli

There is two black out days on July 24, and July 25^th

These day will be made up on Tuesday July 9^th and 16th

Where

Los Angeles CA, On the Campus of UCLA in 3853 Slichter Hall

(see map at http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/pictures/map.gif for directions.)