January 2012
Ms. Johnson brought 4 students with her to present their posters at
the AAS. She has also rejoined NITARP as a mentor teacher this year, and has
just started with her new team. Please see the AAS 2012 page for a summary
of activities. She writes:
Of all the professional development programs in which I have been
involved, NITARP continues to rank among the top few. The opportunity
to work with a world-class astronomer and alongside teachers and
students across the country on a real research project is amazing!
Watching the project evolve from a seed of an idea in January into a
two professional posters presented at the AAS the following January is
fulfilling and satisfying. To think that eighteen people can work
together over twelve months and thousands of miles is a true
reflection of what authentic research is all about.
She has been asked, with her students, to present at her school's
Board of Trustees meeting.
NEW 25 JAN: Ms. Johnson has been selected as a SOFIA Airborne
Ambassador! Way to go! (and
NITARP stuff appears in this local tv segment!!)
July 2011
Ms. Johnson brought 2 people with her to her team's Pasadena visit in
July 2011. Please see the Summer 2011
visits page for photos and quotes.
January 2011
Ms. Johnson presented the results of her 2010 team's work at the
Seattle AAS in January 2011, and is also again starting up with a team
for 2011 as a mentor teacher. Please see
the AAS 2011 page for a
summary of this team's activities.
Here is the team's science
poster, education poster
1, and education poster
2. Ms. Johnson was the first author on the science poster.
Ms. Johnson enjoyed watching her students successfuly present their
work, learn how to network with other astronomers, and actually follow
science presentations by others. She writes:
Wednesday was poster day for the Breck group. Standing by the poster
nearly all day, my three girls described our search for young stellar
objects in the CG4 region of the southern sky. To say that I was proud
would be a gross understatement. Talking with Dr. Rob Gutermuth and
Dr. J. Serena Kim, our collaborators, my students accurately talked
about re-discovering six YSOs and discovering 19 other YSO candidates.
Whew. I am still tired thinking about this.
June 2010
Ms. Johnson visited IPAC with her team in June 2010. See the
Summer 2010 visits page.
January 2010
A team of several students plus Ms. Johnson presented a poster at the
January AAS based on work that they conceived and carried out on their
own, inspired by their work with the Lynds team last year. (See
photo below; the poster is available here.)
These students will continue to work on this project and anticipate
submitting an article to the RBSE journal as well. As a result of
some contacts they made at the AAS meeting, they are also writing up
their AAS experience for a journalist or two.
Ms. Johnson has joined a new NITARP team as a mentor teacher. This
team has just started up, and she is excited about getting new
students involved in this program.
February-May 2009
This spring, eight sophomore girls have joined Team Spitzer at Breck.
Once they become more comfortable with the software and vocabulary of
the project, they will embark on their studies. At this point, we're
not quite sure in which direction their ideas will lead but hopefully
we will know more in the near future.
Jeff Adkins
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John Blackwell
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Jacqueline Barge
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Christopher Border
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Kareen Borders
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Robert Bonadurer
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Merrill Butler
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Lauren Chapple
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Joseph Childers
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Howard Chun
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Wendy Curtis
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Richard DeCoster
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Stacy DeVeau
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Harlan Devore
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Cris DeWolf
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Velvet Dowdy
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Thomas Doyle
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Dean Drumheller
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Debbie Edwards
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Mike Ford
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Debbie French
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John Gibbs
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Peter Guastella
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Rosa Hemphill
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Ardis Herrold
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Vivian Hoette
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Chelen Johnson
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Virginia Jones
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Adam Keeton
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Susan Kelly
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Marcella Linahan
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Thomas Loughran
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Carolyn Mallory
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Anthony Maranto
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Christoper Martin
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Kevin McCarron
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Matthew McCutcheon
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David McDonald
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Shefali Mehta
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Cindy Melton
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Kate Meredith
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Lauren Novatne
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Kathryn O'Connor
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Caroline Odden
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Jeffrey Paradis
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Vincent Pereira
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Helen Petach
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Peggy Piper
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Peter Pitman
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Elizabeth Ramseyer
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Steve Rapp
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Theresa Roelofsen Moody
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Denise Rothrock
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Diane Sartore
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John Schaefers
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Sally Seebode
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Babs Sepulveda
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Timothy Spuck
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Darryl Stanford
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Linda Stefaniak
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Dwight Taylor
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Jennifer Tetler
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Beth Thomas
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Cynthia Weehler
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Lynne Zielinski
