WooHoo!

Mark and I have been working on a series of “vodcasts” (video podcasts) about space weather as part of a NASA-funded project with the folks over at MIT’s Haystack Observatory. Each episode covers a different aspect of space weather and the research that atmospheric scientists do about the causes and effects of space weather.  When we finish filming and editing them all, there will be 8 episodes.

The first two are up now (you can find them here at Haystack’s web site and here and here on YouTube) and we just found out last week that they’re available (for free) on iTunes. If you’re an iTunes devotee, click here for a link to the first two shows (you’ll need to have iTunes installed on your computer for this to work).

The third episode goes up after Christmas sometime, and the rest are slated for release in the first half of 2009 along with an online survey for audience members to fill out.

We encourage you to watch them; if you’re a teacher, please feel free to point your students toward them. The Haystack web pages have some additional material for teachers, so if you’d like to use these in the classroom, point your browser there for more details.  If you’re an AAS member and will be attending the Long Beach meeting, please stop by the poster paper our team is presenting on Wednesday, January 7 at the conference.