Educational Research in Radio Astronomy (ERIRA) is a one-week summer program that was founded in 1992 by Dr. Daniel Reichart (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). I have helped coordinated each year since 1997. ERIRA takes place at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Participants begin the week by learning how to use Green Bank's (pictured above) which we have exclusive use of for the entire week. Then, working in five teams of three, the participants map most of the Milky Way and a few extragalactic and solar system regions of interest, using the 40-foot and data acquisition software of my own design. Since the 40-foot is a transit instrument, this requires about three days of almost round-the-clock observing. Participants then produce false-color images of these regions, again using software that I have written. From these images, they "discover" supernova remnants, stellar nurseries, other galaxies, and quasars, as well as solar system objects like the sun and the moon. I am lucky enough to be able to take 2 or 3 Ridgewood High Schools each year to ERIRA! If you are interested in attending please see me. Below are some links to photo albums from past ERIRA trips.

Previous to 2000 I do not have digital images and I lost 2001, and 2002 :-(....ERIRA 2000 ERIRA 2003 ERIRA 2004 ....ERIRA 2005....ERIRA 2006 ..ERIRA 2007 ..ERIRA 2009