Gerard Blanchard, Ph.D.

Building salinity monitors to deploy to Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station

• Physically model spatial and temporal changes in salinity

• Important for ecosystem management

• Southeastern Monthly, March 2019

• Louisiana Academy of Sciences 2019 Annual Meeting

• Louisiana Academy of Sciences 2020 Annual Meeting

 Project ROOMIE-1

• Team of 4 students building an atmospheric sounder

• Temperature, pressure, humidity

• Calculating convective available potential energy

• The Lion's Roar, November 26, 2018

• May 2018 flight

Project ROOMIE-2

• 6 students building 2 instruments:  an atmospheric sounder and an infrared spectral photometer

• Studying physics of greenhouse effect

• Blanchard et al., American Journal of Physics, 2022.

Project ROOMIE-3

• 4 students building an improved infrared spectral photometer

• Louisiana Academy of Sciences 2022 Annual Meeting

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

• Southeastern Magazine, Spring/Summer 2022

Project ROOMIE-6, 7

• 3 students building improved solar spectrometer

• Study of solar limb-darkening effect during solar eclipse

• Louisiana Academy of Sciences 2024 Annual Meeting

 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, Students rock their senior year with NASA, August 16, 2022

Project ROOMIE-8

• Team of 3 students building sounding rocket experiment

• Ionospheric electron density

• Dynamics of re-entering, spinning rocket body

• Louisiana Space Grant Consortium 2024 Annual Meeting