John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

Dr. David Whalen, Associate Professor in the Department of Space Studies, has announced his retirement plans. He plans to move to California at the end of this semester, but has agreed to teach a few courses next year before fully retiring at the end of spring 2016. Dr. Whalen, whose specialty is in satellite communications […]

Space Studies master’s student, Daniela Henckel, will defend her thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Tuesday, April 28th at 11:15 a.m. (Central DST) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 134 (note room change) Title: CERES – VIS-IR Surface Composition Analysis:  A Review in Advance of […]

Science Café is a learning environment for adults involving the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.  STEM professionals will share their career, research, and expertise in a 30 – 45 minute presentation followed by questions and discussion.  The Grand Forks Public Library hosts Science Café on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM in the meeting room.   April […]

Space Studies master’s student, Daniel Wallace, will defend his thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Thursday, April 30th at 3:30 p.m. (Central DST) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: An Investigation of Six Poorly Described Close Visual Double Stars Using Speckle Interferometry About […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field.  Our special guest scheduled for April 22nd is off-topic, but is a leading expert in the field of remote sensing. This presentation will feature Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail, […]

The NDSGC presented a session at the ND STEM Network Summit in April 2015.  Thank you to the educators who participated! The presentation and handouts included in the workshop can be found below. Educator Resources Handout Moons of Jupiter and NASA Resources PPT Moons of Jupiter Instructions Moons of Jupiter Observation Recording Sheet MoJ Data […]

The Spring 2015 Space Studies Colloquium Series will focus on the NASA Discovery Program–the development of a planetary science mission– and will feature several leading experts in the field. The next presentation in this series will feature  Craig R. Tooley, Project Manager of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. […]

Space Studies master’s student, Iva Gerasimenko, will defend her thesis as follows.  All Space Studies students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  Please show your support! When:  Monday, April 20th at 8:30 am (Central DST) Where:  Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title: Identifying “Bad” Asteroid Spectra: A Cross-Correlative Database Study About the topic: Spectral reflectance data can […]

Atmospheric Sciences M.S. graduate student, Aaron Scott, has been selected to attend the Intensive Summer School in Computing from Environmental Sciences program sponsored by NASA and the University of Virginia. After the summer school, Aaron will intern at the NASA Langley Research Center’s Atmospheric Science Data Center where he will help develop and implement software […]

The March 30th issue of Space News features a profile article on Joanne Gabrynowicz, J.D., titled Space Law 101: Filling the Legal Vacuum.  Joanne was a member of the original Space Studies faculty in 1987 and taught space law at UND until 2001.  This article may be found here.