Space Studies master’s student, Paula Crock, will give her thesis proposal presentation as follows. All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend. When: Thursday, August 6th at 10 a.m. Where: Clifford Hall, Room 521 (note location change) Title: Determining Glacier Drift Ages Using Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data About the presenter: Since graduating […]
The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium participated in the 2015 Young Scientists and Engineers Academy on Wednesday July 29th. 26 middle school students participated in the morning session, while 34 elementary students attended the afternoon session. The students toured the space suit lab, flew the spacecraft simulators, and saw the electric rover. Students then had […]
Willed Donation to Support Space Studies Observatory
Categories: Home Page News, Space Studies
July 29, 2015
After a year of effort, Dr. Paul Hardersen secured the first large donation to UND Space Studies by securing a $150,000 donation that will be delivered in the will of an anonymous donor. Although the funds — specifically dedicated to the Space Studies Observatory — will not arrive for some time to come, this donation […]
In June, Dr. Hardersen led and participated in three observing runs at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The three observing programs were all asteroid-related and included continuing efforts at constraining the abundance of basaltic asteroids in the main asteroid belt, along with programs to observe Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Kirkwood Gap main-belt […]
Dr. Hardersen Leads Education Efforts in New York State
Categories: Home Page News, Space Studies
July 28, 2015
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Dr. Hardersen led an education event in the Hamptons and Montauk, New York, in mid-July to highlight the Pluto flyby of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Dr. Hardersen led discussions of the Pluto flyby, the controversy of Pluto’s status as a planet, and conducted star parties for a crowd primarily consisting of movers-and-shakers from the Manhattan […]
Presentation by Alumnus Arturo Ortiz at ICES
Categories: Home Page News, Space Studies
July 20, 2015
Arturo Ortiz, SpSt M.Sc. 2015, presented a technical paper at the 45th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), held at Seattle on July 12-16, 2015. The paper was based on Ortiz’s M.Sc. thesis, and was coauthored with UND Associate Professors Vadim Rygalov and Pablo de León. Dr. Rygalov was the thesis advisor. Ortiz, A. R., […]
Interaction with ISS planned for 2016
Categories: Home Page News, ND NASA Space Grant Consortium, Space Studies
July 17, 2015
The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium will develop a plan to interact with the International Space Station in 2016. Read more information here.
A group of seven Space Studies students and alums were invited to the luncheon and address by former astronaut Buzz Aldrin at the Council of State Governments’ Midwestern Legislative Conference on Monday, July 13th. Read more about it here.
Gregory man among SD’s few with commercial drone approval (M. Klarenbeek, Alum): Mitchell Republic Newspaper (Marcus Traxler, Writer 07/08/15)
Categories: Aviation
That’s been the case since he was 14 when he had his first discovery flight. When he was 17 years old, he became a licensed pilot. He even likes to fly when he stays on the ground, and now he’s a pioneering his own path again as one of the few commercially licensed drone operators […]
Space Studies is launching a new student bio website!! This webpage will be included in the “People” menu at Space.edu. All current students will have access to submit a short bio and photo to showcase the varied backgrounds of all of our students, both online and on-campus. This is voluntary, but we hope you will […]