[TangerineSDR] [HamSCI] Grapes Funded for 2023/2024 Eclipse Study

[John Gibbons]

Magnetometer interface is already designed into the Grape 2

John N8OBJ

John C. Gibbons
Director - Sears Undergraduate Design Laboratory
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave, Glennan 321
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7071
Phone (216) 368-2816 <216-368-2816> FAX (216) 368-6888 <216-368-6888>
E-mail: jcg66 at case.edu



On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 4:52 PM Kim, Hyomin via TangerineSDR <
tangerinesdr at lists.tapr.org> wrote:

> Congratulations!
> Perhaps, our HamSCI magnetometer network can be implemented into this new
> effort?
>
> Hyomin
> [image: NJIT logo] <https://www.njit.edu/> *Hyomin Kim*
> Assistant Professor
> Physics
> Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research
> Institute for Space Weather Sciences
> hmkim at njit.edu • (973) 596-5704
> https://web.njit.edu/~hmkim/
> 104 Tiernan Hall, 161 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 4:32 PM Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell Ph.D. <
> nathaniel.frissell at scranton.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi, HamSCI!
>>
>> I’m very happy to tell you that we just received a 3-year NSF grant to
>> use the Grape Personal Space Weather Stations to studying the ionospheric
>> impact of the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses, as well as ionospheric
>> variability that occurs at dawn and dusk. Here are some of the science
>> questions we are going to be working to address:
>>
>>    1. How do dawn and dusk ionospheric variability as observed by HF
>>    Doppler shift measurements vary with local time, season, latitude,
>>    longitude, frequency, distance, and direction from the transmitter?
>>    2. Is eclipse ionospheric response symmetric with regard to onset and
>>    recovery timing?
>>    3. How similar is the eclipse to daily dawn and dusk terminator
>>    passage?
>>    4. Do we observe multipath HF mode-splitting in the post-eclipse
>>    interval that is similar to dawn events?
>>    5. How is the response different for the southward Annular eclipse in
>>    2023 compared to the northward Total eclipse of 2024?
>>
>> This grant will fund about 30 Grape v2 receivers to be deployed across
>> the US and Canada, as well as support for a PhD student at Case Western and
>> MS Software Engineering student at Scranton. We will also work to make
>> additional Grapes available for purchase to volunteers. These Grapes will
>> be using signals from both WWV and CHU for these studies.
>>
>> I’d like to thank many people for helping us get this grant, including
>> Kristina Collins KD8OXT, David Kazdan AD8Y, John Gibbons N8OBJ, Rachel
>> Boedicker AC8XY, Christian Zorman, Bill Engelke AB4EJ, Steve Cerwin WA5FRF,
>> Phil Erickson W1PJE, Mary Lou West KC2NMC, Bob Gerzoff WK2Y, Rachel
>> Frissell W2RUF, and the entire HamSCI Grape Personal Space Weather Station
>> team.
>>
>> Here are some press releases:
>>
>>    -
>>    https://hamsci.org/article/hamsci-use-grape-personal-space-weather-stations-study-2023-and-2024-solar-eclipses
>>    -
>>    https://news.scranton.edu/articles/2022/08/news-faculty-nsf-eclipse-frissell-2022.shtml
>>
>>
>> If you would like to participate, please join us at our Thursday 10 AM
>> Eastern telecons! See https://hamsci.org/get-involved for more info.
>>
>> 73 Nathaniel W2NAF
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell, Ph.D., W2NAF
>> HamSCI Lead / Assistant Professor
>> Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering
>> University of Scranton
>> (973) 787-4506
>>
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