RMA Club Meetings
April 18, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Michael Castelaz from the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI)
TOPIC: Explore The Universe
As citizen scientists, the public participates in ongoing scientific work performing observations, measurement, or computing of massive amounts of data that no single scientist could analyze in a lifetime. Discovery - detecting what no one else has seen before - is a very real possibility. Citizen science projects allow scientists to accomplish research goals that might not otherwise be possible. The lab environment is the Internet and the scientific work is distributed world-wide. Roper Mountain Astronomers as Citizen Scientists will be encouraged to classify stars, search for interplanetariy dust particles on returned spacecraft, identify galaxies, survey the surfaces of planets, and search for planets around other stars.
NOTE: We will NOT be meeting in the planetarium due to construction of the Symmes Hall of Science. We will meet in the computer lab in the Harrison Hall of Natural Science. Please follow the signs!
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