The NSF Sondrestrom research facility in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, is offering a hands-on research experience. Graduate students are offered airfare, room and board, a monthly stipend of $1500, and onsite training in the use of scientific instrumentation and analysis at the Sondrestrom facility.

The research instruments available for student study are:
  • Incoherent scatter radar for ionospheric research
  • Rayleigh lidar for middle atmosphere research
  • Resonance lidar for mesospheric sodium studies.

Summer months are the most likely time period for this, and a stay of at least one month is required. Students from non-US institutions are welcome to apply, however, students from US institutions will have priority.

Interested students may apply via email to the project PI, Craig Heinselman or the project leader, Mary McCready. The email should contain the student's research interest, the instrument of choice, their graduate level, and, most importantly, approval by their graduate advisor. Visit http://isr.sri.com for general information about the Sondrestrom facility.

Past GSRE students include:

•	Andrew Gerrard, Penn State University, summer 1996
•	Jo Geddes, Penn State University, summer 1998
•	Keith Soldavin, Penn State University, summer 1999
•	Amy Merkel, Colorado University, summer 2000
•	Jeff Holmes, University of Alaska, winter 2002/2003
•	Chirantan Mukhopadhyay, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, summer 2003
•	John Geiszler, University of Colorado, Boulder, summer 2005
•	Stan Briczinski, Pennsylvania State University, summer 2005
•	Stephen Capozzi, Boston University, summer 2006

  
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