Summer Interns and Visitors

By George Fleming

In 2001 the SSDOO was the temporary home for a stellar group of interns and Fellows from a large number of programs. Again, as in 1999 and in 2000, one of our SSDOO interns was given the Rashaan Jackson Presentation Award for an outstanding presentation. Here are our interns and their projects this year:

Maretta Cameron (Jim Green, mentor): Produced a movie simulating the environment around a black hole.

Art Congdon (Shing Fung, mentor): Application of Extreme Value Statistics to Geomagnetic Storms.

Nicole Forrester (Elaine Lewis, mentor): Having a Solar Blast for NASA Connect.

Andrew Mitchell (Kirk Borne, mentor): Java to C Conversion of XDF Classes.

Greg Pierce (Jim Green, mentor): Helped develop a proposal entitled Cultivating Better Internet Citizens Through Student Education.

Francis Qian (Shing Fung, mentor): Received the Rashaan Jackson Presentation Award for Development of a New Model for Predicting the Fluxes of Belt Particles. Congratulations!

Mayra Tovar (Terry Kucera, mentor): Observations of Solar Prominences in the Ultraviolet.

Aaron Williams (John Cooper, mentor): Charged Particles in Planetary Magnetic Fields.

The SSDOO was the host for Dr. Jacob Adeniyi of Nigeria and Dr. Olivier Obrou of the Ivory Coast, two National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellows. They were here to help further improve the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model.

Other guests this year included Amber Shaw (Elaine Lewis, mentor); Dan Guldin (Greg Goucher, mentor); Nathan Kelley (a Meyerhoff Fellow); Lee Mundy on a University of Maryland Sabbatical; Brendon O’Shea (Shing Fung, mentor); Stephen Rinehart, an NRC Post Doc; Kali Grooms (Dave Williams, mentor); and Cheung Tzehing (Greg Goucher, mentor). And last but not least, reappearing this year were Bill Pine, Sue Higley, Anne DiMarco (Sten Odenwald, mentor), Chuck Higgins, and new this year Paul Lombardo (Jim Thieman, mentor), who developed educational materials on the IMAGE/POETRY Web site.

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