June 7 – 11, 2025 SARA and Radio Jove 2025 Eastern Conference - Conference Agenda

SARA and Radio Jove 2025 Eastern Conference

Green Bank West Virginia (WV) Green Bank Observatory (GBO)

June 7 – 11, 2025

Conference Agenda

All times are for Green Bank WV, which is eastern daylight time (i.e., UTC – 4 hours)

 

June 7, 2025 (Saturday)

11:00 AM

Jay Wilson and Dave Lacko provide guided tours of public exhibits

 

Noon

Lunch on your own (e.g., Starlight Café)

 

1:00 PM

Beginning Radio Astronomy (RA) - "What's RA all about?"

Dave Lacko

2:00 PM

Scope In a Box (Hands On Demonstrations)

Dave Lacko, Jay Wilson, Ted Cline

5:00 PM

Dinner on your own

 

6:00 PM

Scope in a Box Observations

 

7:00 PM

Observations and Drakes Lounge Discussions

 

 

June 8, 2025 (Sunday)

11:30 AM

Lunch at GBO Cafeteria

 

12:30 PM

Registration at Jansky Lab Building

 

1:00 PM

Welcome and Administrative Announcements

Marcus Fisher

1:15 PM

Introduction to Radio Astronomy (RA)

Ed Harfmann & Charles Osborne

2:00 PM

20-meter dish training using SkyNet – Pulsar Profiles

Stephen Tzikas

3:00 PM

Refreshment Break

 

3:15 PM

40-foot Telescope Training

Skip Crilly

5:00 PM

Dinner at GBO Cafeteria

 

6:00 PM +

Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove

 

 

Flea Market

 

 

Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions

 

 

 

 

June 9, 2025 (Monday)

7:45 AM

Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria

 

8:30 AM

Registration at Jansky Lab Building

 

9:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

Marcus Fisher

9:15 AM

SARA Sections Overview / Update

Stephen Tzikas

9:45 AM

Using 20m Skynet Dish at Green Bank Observatory to observe integrated hydrogen spectra of galaxies outside Milky Way

Jason Burnfield & Dr. Andrew Thornett

10:15 AM

Refreshment Break

 

10:30 AM

Doppler Mapping five nearby galaxies using the 20m Skynet dish at Greenbank Observatory

Jason Burnfield & Dr. Andrew Thornett

11:15 AM

A Report on the new Radio Jove TFD Square Array at Appalachian State University's Dark Sky Observatory

Jacob Hansman, Dr. Richard Gray, and Dr. Michael Briley

Noon

Lunch at GBO Cafeteria

 

1:00 PM

Guest Speaker – The 21 CM Line and Neutral Hydrogen

Dr. Emmanuel Fonseca

2:00 PM

Long Wavelength Array Front End Electronics

Whitham Reeve and Brian Hicks

2:45 PM

Refreshment Break

 

3:00 PM

Overview of the Stockert Radio Observatory

Dr. Wolfgang Hermann

3:45 PM

Open Microphone

 

4:00 PM

Using the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey Database to Simulate Hydrogen Line Observations of Nearby Galaxies

Eduard Mol & Jason Burnfield

4:45 PM

A new cheap radio telescope design using solar cooker parabolic reflector dishes

Dr. Andrew Thornett

5:15 PM

Dinner at GBO Cafeteria

 

6:30 PM +

Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove

 

 

Flea Market

 

 

Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions

 

 

 

 

June 10, 2025 (Tuesday)

7:45 AM

Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria

 

9:00 AM

Administrative Announcements

Marcus Fisher

9:15 AM

Detection of Jupiter Radiation at 77GHz by a Small Single Dish

Dr. Dimitry Fedorov

9:45 AM

SARA Outreach

Tom Crowley

10:15 AM

Refreshment Break

 

10:30 AM

Inductors, They Give us “L”

Bruce Randall

11:00 AM

Narrow bandwidth pulse pair observations using an interferometer

Skip Crilly

11:30 AM

Guest Speaker – Radio Transients

Anoj Khadka

Noon

Lunch at GBO Cafeteria

 

1:00 PM

Introducing Radio Jove 2.1

Chuck Higgins

1:30 PM

Motivation and Communication in Citizen Science

Nicole Gugliucci

2:00 PM

Science Projects using Radio Jove Data

Dave Typinski

2:30 PM

Calibration Methods

Chuck Higgins, Larry Dodd, Jim Sky

3:00 PM

Refreshment Break

 

3:15 PM

A Polarimeter Antenna for Radio Jove

Francisco Reyes

3:45 PM

Radio Jove Demonstrations

Jim Sky, John Cox, & Matthew Grieco

5:00 PM

Closing Day Announcements

Marcus Fisher

5:15 PM

Dinner at GBO Cafeteria

 

6:30 PM +

Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove

 

 

Flea Market

 

 

Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions

 

 

June 11, 2025 (Wednesday)

7:45 AM

Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria

 

9:00 AM

Administrative Announcements & Elections

Marcus Fisher

10:00

Open Mic

 

11:00 AM

Technical Tours of GBO Control Room and 140 Foot Telescope

Sophie Saint Georges

12:30 PM

Lunch at GBO Cafeteria