The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey

Undergraduate Involvement in ALFALFA
No survey team could ever be complete without its undergraduates!

The Undergraduate ALFALFA team
Check out the Jan 2009 Workshop and see the team in action at Arecibo

Using Arecibo for ALFALFA

Using ALFALFA for science

Higher level practice questions

Cornell Ugrad EGGs Spring 2009

Cornell Ugrad EGGs Spring 2008

Undergrads control the world's largest radio telescope!

Arik Mitschang (Humboldt State Univ '06) gets to see ALFA up close in February 2006. Photo by Dave Kornreich. Click here for a larger version.	Amy Furniss (Humboldt State Univ '06) and Shea Brown (U Minnesota grad student) keep a watchful eye on ALFALFA in February 2006. Photo by Dave Kornreich. Click here for a larger version.	Amy Furniss (Humboldt State Univ '06) discovers a galaxy in a quick look of last night's data. Photo by Dave Kornreich. Click here for a larger version.
Bilal Mahmood (Union '08) "drives" ALFALFA in December 2005. Photo by Becky Koopmann. Click here for a larger version.	Brian Walsh (Colgate '06) "drives" ALFALFA in January 2006. Sabrina Stierwalt (Cornell grad) looks on. Photo by Tom Balonek. Click here for a larger version.

The first NSF-funded Undergraduate ALFALFA team workshop was held Jan 13-14, 2008 in Arecibo. It was a huge success, and we all had more fun than human beings should be allowed to have (thanks to Dave K. for such a marvelous description). Thanks to everyone at the Arecibo Observatory for their help and support with logistics, the tours and keeping our stomachs full, our friends at Union, especially Becky, for their help with organization and reimbursements, Brian, Sabrina, Lyle, Riccardo, Martha and Dave for their lectures and demonstrations, and the NSF for making it all possible.

13-14Jan08 Arecibo Observatory
Arecibo, PR Contact:
Becky Koopmann January 2008 Undergraduate ALFALFA Team workshop Workshop home page
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The second 2006 ALFALFA Undergraduate workshop was held in July 12-13 2006 at Union College. It was a rousing success. Thanks to Becky and the friendly folks at Union for hosting us, to Bob Brown and Hector Hernandez for allocating us a short observing block, and to the student and faculty participants (from Colgate, Cornell, Lafayette, Rochester Inst. Tech., Skidmore, St. Lawrence, Wesleyan, Wellesley and Union) for all their hard work!

12-13Jul06 Union College
Schenectady NY Contact:
Becky Koopmann 2006 Undergraduate ALFALFA workshop Workshop home page
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First ALFALFA Undergraduate workshop
In July 2005, we held a small workshop for undergraduates who are engaged in summer research related to ALFALFA. In addition to lectures on radio astronomy, the Arecibo telescope and ALFALFA, the students conducted observations with the Arecibo telescope for 1.5 hours, controlling the observing program remotely in the meeting room. On the second day, they reduced the data and began to analyze the dataset. Stay tuned for more results soon!

06-07Jul05

Union College
Schenectady NY

Contact:
Becky Koopmann

2005 Undergraduate ALFALFA workshop

Workshop home page
Agenda | Talks | Participants
Photos | Photos ZIP
A2140 observing plan and justification
John Ayala's poster at the Jan 2006 AAS meeting

The Fall 2005 Getting Started page
The Summer 2006 ALFALFA Observing Team page
The Spring 2007 page

Last modified: Sun Jan 19 12"14"23 EST 2008 by martha