CRD+Sensitivity+Project

=Welcome to the CRD Solar Sensitivity page! =

This page is dedicated to exploring QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector Sensitivity to Solar-initiated disturbances to Earth's Atmosphere and Magnetosphere: the CRD Sensitivity Project.

 * Project preliminary investigation: solar activity impacts the earth's atmosphere in a variety of ways. Which of those ways can we detect using QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detectors? What quantifiable studies can we design around this line of inquiry? To assist in developing this line of inquiry, we'll load the locations of a large number of detectors into a kml file for Google Mapping (linked from this space) and Google Earth exploration. Next, we'll add to the graphical representation of the CRD positions in Google Earth additional [|atmospheric data] from NASA. Then we'll look around for directions for quantifiable investigations. (Later, perhaps, Earth's [|Magnetospheric]data can be drawn into the study.)


 * A first step**: find detector coordinates in the geometry files (as in this example) associated with a number of different detectors, and enter placemarks in a kml file. Let's include both the **high school name**, as well as **detector coordinates** and **a link to a wikispace page dedicated to that detector** in the call-out box associated with each placemark. Also try a link to the geometry file associate with that detector. You can link to the teacher responsible for that detector (to ask them questions about its configuration) also; the master list of their contact information is [|here]. (You must log in as other-than-guest to view this page.)


 * Second step**: Once you've created a number of placemarks (three, at least), load them on to a [|common map].


 * Third step**: post your initials to the list below, and link them to a page in which you design a researchable question based upon the atmospheric and detector position data represented in the emerging shared Google Earth map. See the first example (= "TL") below.

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