20 October 2006
The Fourth Citizen Science Conference Photo Album

The fourth annual Citizen Science Conference was held in Providence, Rhode Island, on 24-27 August 2006.

A report on the conference appeared here, and this is a photo album of the meeting's poster session. More photos from the conference virtual photo album will appear in a subsequent issue of The Citizen Scientist.


[1] Vince Giovannone explains his model rocket particulate matter and microbe air sampling system to SAS Executive Director Shawn Carlson. Vince's poster was entitled, "Dirt Cheap Low Atmospheric Sampling."

[2] Dr. Denise Greaves' poster on "Dragonflies of the L Pond" was filled with some of her high quality images of dragonflies.

[3] George Hrabovsky of MAST spoke on storm chasing and presented a poster on "How to do Theory as an Amateur."

[4] Bill Appleby with his poster on "Airship Hindenburg: Experimental study of the outer covering paint (dope) in the disastrous final fire." Bill's article in The Citizen Scientist on his Hindenburg study is here.

[5] Dr. Norman Scheinberg, a professor of electrical engineering at the City College of New York, demonstrates his Cavendish experiment. A high-voltage arc demonstration he provided was featured in "Gallery" in The Citizen Scientist of 6 October 2006.

[6] Charles Pooley followed his lecture on "Microlaunchers" with a presentation during the poster session.

[7] Ed Nisley coupled his talk on do-it-yourself semiconductor diodes with a poster session demonstration of a working diode. The diode shown here could be arranged to exhibit negative resistance.

[8] Photographer Kevin Fitzpatrick presented a poster on "All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory."


[9] During the poster session, Dr. Lance Osadchey discussed his lecture on "An Experiment to Measure the Earth's Velocity Using a Velador."

[10] Denise Greaves explains dragonfly egg-laying behavior to Shawn Carlson.

[11 Norman Scheinberg (right) explains one of his demonstrations to Vince Giovannone (left) as Monty Robson (center) looks on.

Photographs by Forrest M. Mims III.
   
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