DVRA’s September 10th membership meeting will feature a presentation by Dr Nathaniel A Firssell, Ph. D. titled “HamSCI: Space Weather We Can Do Together!”
Since the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO Party, the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI),
has been bringing together amateur radio operators and professional space scientists to
develop new and innovative ways to study space weather and its impacts on the ionosphere
and radio propagation.
In this presentation, Dr. Frissell will present results from the 2023 and 2024 HamSCI Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science, including the Solar Eclipse QSO Parties and Gladstone Signal Spotting Challenge, the HF Time Difference of Arrival Experiment, the Personal Space Weather Station HF Doppler Sounding Experiment, the medium wave AM Receive Experiment, and the Very Low Frequency (VLF) Experiment.
He also talk about what is next for HamSCI, including new developments in the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station project, how HamSCI activities can contribute to amateur radio operating, and how you can join and participate.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, is an Associate Professor of Physics and Engineering at The University of Scranton. Specializing in space weather and HF radio propagation, he holds a B.S. in Music Education and Physics from Montclair State University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Inspired by his amateur radio hobby since middle school, he founded and leads HamSCI.org, a citizen science initiative supported by NASA, NSF, and ARDC. Dr. Frissell advises the W3USR club and has been recognized with the Yasme Foundation Excellence award (2017), the DARA Amateur of the Year Award (2019), and induction into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame (2021).
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