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LWA - Education and Public Outreach
The LWA is being constructed by the
Southwest Consortium which includes: The University of New Mexico,
University of Texas at Austin, Los Alamos National Laboratory and The
Naval Research Laboratory.
Philosophy of the Southwest Consortium
The Southwest Consortium endorses education and outreach as an integral
part of its commitment to technology development and scientific discovery.
The Consortium encourages its members to seek ways to share the excitement
of their research with the general public in order to support the
following goals: sharing scientific results with the taxpayers who fund
them, increasing general scientific literacy, and sparking interest in the
students who will become the next generation of engineers and scientists.
We are particularly committed to reaching underserved populations,
including students from rural schools, Hispanic and Native American
students, and their families.
Recent Educational Opportunities
Students assist with LWA site testing
Ted Jaeger, astronomy graduate student at U. Iowa, and Stefanie Gallegos,
a Junior at UNM majoring in Physics/Astronomy, participate in the
radio-frequency-interference (RFI) testing at potential LWA sites during
the spring semester 2007.
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LWA "North Arm" site - March 2007
Left - Big Blade and electronics in station wagon.
Right - RFI testing in progress.
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Workshop was held in June 2006 for graduate students and postdocs in astrophysics
10th Summer Synthesis Imaging Workshop
was held June 13-20, 2006
at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USA
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Public Outreach - recent activities
Retirees living at La Vida Llena tour the LWDA site
John and Hélène Dickel - adjunct professors at UNM working on the LWA project and also residents at La Vida Llena (LVL) in Albuquerque - served as Tour Guides for the busload of 22 people from LVL who visited the LWDA and the VLA on May 16, 2007. The tour was so popular that another visit is planned in early October for those who were on the waiting list.
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La Vida Llena residents tour the LWDA on May 16, 2007
Left - the LVL van arrives at the site.
Right - Prof. John (far right) explains the LWDA.
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Left - Big Blade antenna and LWDA dipoles.
Right - LWDA Crew.
Some of the LWDA electronics and site development crew - from left to right:
John Dickel (UNM), Eduardo Aguilera (UNM), Nagini Paravastu (NRL),
Jonathan York (UTexas), and Namir Kassim (NRL)
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