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VT SuperDARN undergraduate interns present at the Summer Research Symposium

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Four SuperDARN undegraduate interns presented posters at the 2025 edition of the Virginia Tech Summer Research Symposium held at Goodwin Hall on July 31. Three students are shown here displaying their posters at a follow-up Group meeting. They are (from left to right) Nicholas Louvet (AOE), Colton Fox (CpE), and AJ Jackson (AOE). Missing is Mia Mataczynski (ME ). The students reported on their research assignments carried out over the previous two months under the guidance of senior VT SuperDARN group members Prof. Jo Baker, Prof. Mike Ruohoniemi, and Dr. Bharat Kunduri. The titles of their presentations:

Nicholas:  'Evaluating Ionospheric Model Output against Observations during a Geomagnetic Storm on Februray 4, 2022'

Colton:     'A Web-based Tool for real-Time Analysis of SuperDARN Space Weather Radar Data'

AJ:           'Predicting Atmospheric Conditions During Geomagnetic Storms by Modeling Joule Heating'

Congratulations on achieving such professional results in so short a time!

For more information on the Summer Research Symposium see

https://www.research.undergraduate.vt.edu/present-and-publish/student-present-and-publish/virginia-tech-conferences/summer-research-conference.html