The MacGyver Session: The Place for Novel, Exciting, Self-Made, Hacked, or Improved Sensors and Software Solutions to Understand Space Weather

Session ID#: 281718

Session Description:
This 7th edition of the MacGyver session focuses on the interdisciplinary applications of space weather across space physics and aeronomy. Makers, citizen scientists, ham radio enthusiasts, educators, and artists are welcome to bring broad, open science and STEAM outreach. Started in Hydrology more than a decade ago, this expanded concept now engages Space Physics and Aeronomy with MacGyver-style innovations, such as: new sensor systems which use technologies in novel or unintended ways; new software, algorithms, data storage or transmission solutions that send data from the field; and initiatives that facilitate the creation and sharing of novel sensors, open source code and data, and software systems. Feel free to bring prototypes and demonstrations. We look forward to sharing our MacGyvering with the broader AGU community this year!
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • AE - Atmospheric and Space Electricity
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
2407 Auroral ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
2437 Ionospheric dynamics [IONOSPHERE]
2494 Instruments and techniques [IONOSPHERE]
Primary Convener:  Vincent Ledvina, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, United States; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Kristina Collins, PhD, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States; HamSCI Community, Scranton, United States and Nathaniel A Frissell, The University of Scranton, Physics and Engineering, Scranton, United States; HamSCI Community, Physics and Engineering, Scranton, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Vincent Ledvina, Predictive Science Inc., San Diego, United States
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