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Multimedia Feature: Montana State Professor, Students Create Aurora Detector

Last Updated: July 11, 2008 Related resource areas: Science, Engineering, and Technology for Youth

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Late at night entertainment: the aurora borealis.

Released July 9, 2008

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Montana State University professor Joseph Shaw and two of his students built an aurora borealis detector, then traveled to Alaska to test it.

To view a multimedia feature about auroras, the detector and the group's trip to Alaska, visit http://www.montana.edu/cpa/gallery/080711au/.

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http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6053

Contact: Joseph Shaw, 406-994-7261, jshaw@ece.montana.edu


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