News

• ALFALFA observations of NGC 4254 and the "dark galaxy" VirgoHI21

• Undergrads celebrate -- and conduct -- the 600th ALFALFA observing session, November 24, 2009

• Cornell Events Summary

• Examiner.com story about Lisa Horne's (first) galaxy discovery
• Georgia Southern University magazine article about Sarah Higdon and the Undergraduate ALFALFA team
• Union College News article about Becky Koopmann and the Undergraduate ALFALFA team
• Georgia Southern University magazine article about the adventures in galaxy discovery of Sarah Higdon, Josh Davidson and Daniel Richey during their trip to Arecibo in January 2007.
• St. Lawrence University article about Jamie Lomax and her trip to Arecibo with Aileen O'Donoghue and Jeff Miller in Nov 2006.
• Union College Spotlight on Jay Read including his work on ALFALFA last summer.
• Cornell University Chronicle article about ALFA. The photo was taken by Tom Balonek during a trip to the platform to "uncover" ALFA after a planetary radar run. Tom, Brian and Sabrina didn't mind spending a week in Arecibo in January!
• Union College Chronicle article about the involvement of Becky and Bilal, Jay, Michael and Luther in ALFALFA. (Bilal really didn't mind having to travel to Puerto Rico in December!
• Cornell press release about the start of ALFALFA
• Tel Aviv University press release about studying hydrogen in the Universe
• Article written in the Ma'ariv (Israel) about ALFALFA
• Science News Program - interview with Dr. Noah Brosch

• See also the ALFALFA publications page.

Events

• Upcoming meetings of interest to the ALFALFA team and/or where ALFALFA results will be presented. See also the ALFALFA publications page.

  Date(s)	Location	Contact	Purpose	Web site/agenda
  11-13 Jan 2010	Arecibo	Becky Koopmann	Third NSF-Sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Consortium Workshop at Arecibo	Web site

  
  
  
• Past meetings:

  Date(s)	Location	Contact	Purpose	Web site/agenda
  29 July 2009	Schenectady + Team Locations	Becky Koopmann	Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Summer 2009 Summer Research Progress Telecon and Mini-Conference at Union	Web site
  12-14 Jan 2009	Arecibo	Becky Koopman	2nd NSF Sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Workshop	Web site
  24 Oct 2008	Siena College	Rose Finn	Meeting/telecon for Undergraduate Groups Team (in conjunction with ASNY meeting)
  16 Jul 2008	Arecibo	Becky Koopman	Mini workshop for Undergraduate Groups Team	Web site
  1-3 Feb 2008	Arecibo	Robert Minchin	The Evolution of Galaxies through the Neutral Hydrogen Window	Web site
  13-14 Jan 08	Arecibo	Becky Koopmann	First NSF Sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Workshop	Web site
  12-13 Jul 06	Union College	Becky Koopmann	Undergrad ALFALFA workshop	Workshop home page Group photo: Low res | High res
  23-24 Jun 06	Cornell U	Riccardo Giovanelli	Team ALFALFA workshop	Site
  01 Jun 06	Arcetri	Leslie Hunt	Team Euro ALFALFA workshop	Agenda
  8-12 Jan 06	Washington DC	AAS	at AAS meeting	Our presentations
  06-07Jul05	Union College	Becky Koopmann	Undergraduate Team ALFALFA workshop	Workshop site ALFALFA Undergrad page
  23-24Jun05	Cornell U	Riccardo Giovanelli	Team ALFALFA workshop	Site
  30May05	Brera, Milano	Angela Iovino	ALFALFA-Euro workshop	Site