News and Happenings*

ESPG-related events:

• ESPG Researchers win IBEX proposal! (2/2/2005) (UNH Press Release)
• COSPAR World Space Conference in October, 2002. Dr. Eberhard Mobius is the main scientific organizer!
• Peter T. Paul Chair in Space Science established by 1967 UNH grad Peter T. Paul (full story on unh.edu) (11 December 2001)
• UNH-Patented Invention Now Orbiting in Space -- designed by our own Mark Granoff and Philip Demaine (4 December 2001)
• Christa McAuliffe Planetarium has a new show about the sun!
• Surfing and diving in the Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster celebrates one year of science excellence in orbit. Space scientists around the world are today celebrating the first anniversary of the European Space Agency's revolutionary Cluster mission to explore near-Earth space and study the interaction between the Sun and Earth. (Offsite link)
• UNH Space Instrument Gets Zapped by Solar Storm 25 April 2001
• UNH Holds Public Celebration of Sun-Earth Day 13 April 2001
• Leonid meteor shower looks good for northern hemisphere this year (13 November, 2000)
• Cluster II UNH Press release (7 August 2000)
• Cluster II blasts off from Khazakstan (16 July 2000)
  (UNH Cluster page here)
• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory splashes down (CNN story, 4 June 2000)
• Equator-S and Geotail Confirm Large-Scale Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause: Short Overview (PDF, 48 K);Press Release (PDF, 7 K); UNH Press Release (HTML) (20 April 2000)
• COMPTEL Gamma Ray Observatory faces an uncertain future -- read the UNH press release here.
• The annual Leonid meteor showers are upon us again; find out how ACE will weather the storm!
• Drs. Lynette Gelinas and Kristina Lynch are featured in this season's University of New Hampshire Alumni Magazine (available in print only).

Web Page Addenda:

• Added COSPAR World Space Conference site (9 January 2002)
• Reworked UNH ACE pages again (17 October, 2001)
• Solar Songs by Marty Quinn: music created from ACE-SEPICA data
• Added alias espg.sr.unh.edu for this server -- easier to remember and type. (Fear not, the old alias of www-ssg.sr.unh.edu still works, and will continue to work indefinitely.)
• Reworked website to streamline page viewing -- file sizes are much smaller, and take advantage of cascading style sheets. If you encounter any problems, please send email to the webspinner.
• Equator-S Data is now accessible through a streamlined form (much friendlier than the previous format!). (2 May 2000)
• Added ACE-SEPICA Daily PHA data -- updates occur frequently (24 April, 2000)
• New site added for STEREO (February, 2000)
• Updated UNH ACE pages (12 October 1999)
• Reworked entire ESPG site design (as you can see) in keeping with WWW evolution (8 September 1999)
• Reworked Physics 406 site -- new additions appear there frequently (23 August 1999)
• Added ACE-SEPICA Housekeeping Data (23 June 1999)
• Java applet games now available on the Outreach for Kids page (21 May 1999)
• Building a Paper Model of the ACE Spacecraft: A Model of Spacecraft Design and Implementation for Middle School Students poster now up (19 May 1999)
• Interstellar Pickup Helium from CELIAS CTOF on SOHO: Effects of the Solar Wind Speed and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Poster now up (22 April 1999)
• Imaging of the Interstellar Gas Flow for Different Species and Necessary Instrumental Techniques Poster now up (22 March 1999)
• Please check out the new version of the Interstellar Medium Learning Page! (15 February 1999)
• Any comments about the new design of the site are more than welcome! If you see something for your group you would like changed; if things are missing and you want to add them; or if you know of any other useful links that we should have, please email me.

Upcoming Meetings at UNH or in the area:

• ACE Science Working Team Meeting:
  • October 29-30, 2001
  • To be held at the Urban Forestry Center, Portsmouth, NH, USA

* Please note: if you have news that should be displayed on or linked to this page, please send email to Jan Heirtzler.

Last Update: 7 August, 2000

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