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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear CEDAR Community,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We invite your participation in aeronomy citizen-science. The
International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) is a 501c3 research
and education institution that hosts Project PoSSUM (Polar Suborbital Science
in the Upper Mesosphere), an aeronomy citizen-science organization incorporated
in 2012 that uses the inspirational power of human spaceflight to educate and
inspire new students to become involved in aeronomy. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our research is generally funded through private sources and
subsidies through our partner organizations including the Canadian Space
Agency, the National Research Council, and other institutions in the US and
Canada. We can generally support campaigns up to about $100K through
sponsorships, media, and tuition. We currently have students that have attended
IIAS from 46 different countries and we seek to leverage the highly-public and
international nature of our program to serve our aeronomy and CEDAR community
through science education and public outreach.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In our aeronomy concentration, we presently offer three
courses: AER 101 (Space Environment), AER 102 (Mesospheric Modeling) and AER
103 (Remote Sensing of the Mesosphere). AER 103 has involved ground and
aircraft observations of noctilucent cloud structures where students have
trained and deployed. Here, members have flown with the Canadian Air Force and developed
camera hardware for the NASA PMC-Turbo mission. It is this type of hands-on
fieldwork that we have found effective in best engaging our students.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are actively seeking to expand our aeronomy program and we
invite members of the CEDAR community that might be interested in becoming involved
with IIAS do so by one of the following ways:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1. Proposing a field research campaign either individually
or in partnership with your institution. Please consider field research campaigns
with maximum student involvement which might also incorporate their own design
opportunities. Lidar operations opportunities as well as low-cost balloon and/or aircraft
experiments are examples of campaigns that can be supported in our program. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2. Proposing a distance-education course that you think might
enable novel and publishable citizen-science research. For consideration, we would
require a bio and a draft syllabus. Courses are typically taught at the
upper-division level and IIAS is presently in the process of accreditation. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">3. Volunteering to share your professional experience
through an interview in one of our recurring public webinars so that our
members and the general public may keep informed about the state of current research
activities in aeronomy.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are very international and socially engaged; our institute
is actively involved in science outreach programs including the ‘PoSSUM 13’ (to
provide international contests and positive representation for women in STEM), ‘Out
Astronaut’ (providing international contests and positive representation for LGBTQ+
in STEM) and ‘Space for all Nations’ (engaging and creating STEM outreach
ventures in emerging space nations). All members are invited to participate in
any of these ventures.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">More about IIAS may be found at <a href="http://astronauticsinstitute.org">astronauticsinstitute.org</a>. Our
instructors are contracted individually and maintain all copyrights of
instructional materials. For consideration of a course or research campaign, please
contact Dr. Jason Reimuller at <a href="mailto:Jason.Reimuller@projectpossum.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">Jason.Reimuller@projectpossum.org</a>.
To volunteer to share your work in a webinar, please contact Mr. Adrien
Mauduit at <a href="mailto:Adrien.Mauduit@projectpossum.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">Adrien.Mauduit@projectpossum.org</a>. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></p>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>--------------------------------------------------------<br></div>Jason D. Reimuller, Ph.D.<br></div>Executive Director, International Institute of Astronautical Sciences<br></div><div><div>Office: (720) 352-3227<br></div><div><a href="mailto:Jason.Reimuller@integratedspaceflight.com" target="_blank">Jason.Reimuller@integratedspaceflight.com</a><br>---------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>