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NASA Neurodiversity Network’s first interns presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting
The NASA Science Activation Program’s NASA Neurodiversity Network (N3) project sponsors a summer internship program for high school students, where learners on the autism spectrum are matched with NASA experts. N3 intern Lillian Hall and mentor Dr. Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros presented Lilly’s summer research project at the 2024 American Geophysical Union Conference in Washington, DC, on December 9th. Their poster, titled “Eclipse Megamovie: Image Processing,” represents the N3 intern’s first participation. He is a co-author of a presentation at the prestigious AGU conference.
Eclipse Megamovie, a NASA Citizen Science project, is harnessing the power of citizen science to construct a high-resolution time-lapse of the sun’s corona during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. By coordinating the work of hundreds of participants along the path of wholeness, a substantial image dataset was obtained. The goal of this project is to reveal the dynamic changes in the solar atmosphere that are only visible during total solar eclipses.
To process the vast amount of image data collected, Lilly helped Dr. Martinez Oliveros and other researchers implement a robust pipeline that includes image calibration, registration, and colocation. Image registration techniques aligned solar features across different frames and compensated for Earth rotation and camera movement. Finally, they used imaging techniques to improve the signal-to-noise ratio and reveal subtle coronal structures and possible dynamics. This comprehensive data processing approach allows us to extract meaningful scientific information from the Eclipse Megamovie dataset.
Here’s Lily’s comment: “Working with N3 gave me the opportunity to leverage a neurodiversity perspective to impact research at NASA. I would like to share my project process and share it at an American Geophysical Union conference. I am very grateful that through this opportunity I was able to find my place in the field of planetary science, which I dreamed of pursuing in the future.”
To learn more about NASA Citizen Science and how to participate, visit here (participation does not require citizenship of a specific country): https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/
The N3 project is supported by NASA under Cooperative Agreement Award Number 80NSSC21M0004 and is part of NASA’s Science Activation Portfolio. Science Activation brings together NASA science experts, real-world content, and experiences with community leaders to do science in ways that energize minds and foster deeper understanding of our world and the world beyond. Learn more about how: https://science.nasa.gov/learn
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Lily Hall and Eclipse Megamovie Image Processing Poster. Kristen Hall
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