Society for Amateur Scientists
Holds 2006 Meeting
The Society for Amateur
Scientists (SAS) held its 2006 annual meeting in
Providence, Rhode Island, from 24-27 August.
The agenda included a wide range of intriguing reports
and presentations on topics ranging from Labrats (Fig.
1) to the history of an historic meteor fall. The poster
session topics ranged from superb dragonfly photography
to sampling atmospheric aerosols and microbes using a
model rocket.
The Benjamin Franklin Award was presented to John Powell,
president and founder of JP
Aerospace. This abbreviated installment of The
Citizen Scientist includes a report about this
remarkable amateur scientist and his pioneering PongSat
and Airship to Orbit projects.
Stay tuned for the 22 September 2006 installment of
The Citizen Scientist for reports and photographs
from the 2006 SAS Conference.
Forrest M. Mims III 
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