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<title>SWSS 2018 - SHM</title>
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<h1>Introduction</h1>
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In the summer of 2018, from June 11th to June 15th, 18 students were
brought together to partake in a summer school dedicated to an
introduction to space weather analysis. Three instructors invited
their students from Norway, Japan and the USA to work together on projects.
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<h1>Purpose</h1>
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The lecturers began with an introduction to the science and data
analyses that would be done over the next five days. Numerous satellites
and solar events were noted (see my notes on our
<a class="link-item" href="https://github.com/steinnhauser/SWSS-Boston-2018/blob/master/Project_Variants.txt">
Project Variants</a>)
and the teams were left to decide what events and satellites they wanted
to study and present in a final presentation. The purpose was ultimately
to get to know the science methods better and to establish a good work
ethic between teams. In my team of three, we decided to research the
width of typical solar activity by comparing the correspondence between
two satellites: ACE and STEREO-B.
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<h1>Team Project</h1>
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My team of three chose these two satellites due to their timing of
operation. Both satellites were launched simultaneously from the earth;
one was launched clockwise and the other was launched counter-clockwise
along the earth's orbit around the sun. At the beginning of the data
collection the satellites had a large degree of correlation, which was
the focus of the study. The correlation of the two satellites dropped
in time as expected and this was used to assert the width of the solar
activity which was surrounding the earth at the time. One of the main
challenges my team faced was patching up the data from the STEREO-B
satellite, as the magnetic field measuring instruments were unresponsive
for some time. Illustrated is a slice of the data which we successfully
patched together using regression analysis.
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<h1>Team Results</h1>
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Follwing is the comparison between the magnetic fields which the two
satellites were exposed to.
The full power point presentation can be found in the following
<a class="link-item" href="https://github.com/steinnhauser/SWSS-Boston-2018">Github repo</a>.
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<img class="image-container" src="/images/swss/SWSS_Comparison-Bfields.png">
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<h1>My experience</h1>
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Working together with students who share similar interests and skills
was a great learning experience. Communication and teamwork were key
elements in getting somewhere in researching the data and I felt my
team was successfully able to do that. When presenting the project in
front of the 15 other students and the 3 instructors we all had something
to discuss and we went back and forth with the instructors about further
improvements of the research.
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<h1>Afterthoughts</h1>
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Getting to go to a trip to Boston was a great experience both
educationally and socially. Gaining new contacts in Japan and in the
US who will likely take similar career paths to mine meant a lot to me.
Getting to know my fellow Norwegian students better in our free time
and travels after the workshop was also time very well spent.
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