Gerard Blanchard, Ph.D.
Mission to the Marsh
Building salinity monitors to deploy to Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station
Physically model spatial and temporal changes in salinity
Important for ecosystem management
Mission to the Stratosphere
Project ROOMIE-1
Team of 4 students building an atmospheric sounder
Temperature, pressure, humidity
Calculating convective available potential energy
Project ROOMIE-2
6 students building 2 instruments: an atmospheric sounder and an infrared spectral photometer
Studying physics of greenhouse effect
Project ROOMIE-3
4 students building an improved infrared spectral photometer
Project ROOMIE-4
3 students building a solar spectrometer
18 wavelength channels in visible and near-infrared
Studying effect of atmosphere on visible and near-infrared solar spectrum
Project ROOMIE-6
3 students building improved solar spectrometer
Study of solar limb-darkening effect
Mission to the Ionosphere
Project ROOMIE-5
Team of 4 students building sounding rocket experiment
Ionospheric electron density
Euler angles of re-entering, spinning rocket body
Launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA
The Lion's Roar,