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WAshington Large Area Time coincidence Array is a project to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays with the participation of middle and high school students and teachers throughout the Seattle area.

• Info for participants in the Summer 2001 WALTA/Quarknet Workshop for Teachers
• Website for SALTA Workshop, a joint WALTA/CROP project in Snowmass, CO, July 2001
• Brochure (Adobe PDF file) about WALTA for teachers and students
• Teachers: you may also be interested in our Evening MS degree program
• NALTA is the North American Large-scale Time-coincidence Arrays Consortium. Check the NALTA website for information on similar projects elswhere.
• Resources for students and teachers about cosmic rays
• Slides (GIF files) from a presentation about WALTA by J. Wilkes, for teachers and school administrators
• Project summaries (preliminary):
  1. For non-scientists
  2. For non-specialist scientists and science educators
  3. The Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array
     Submitted to the 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference (1999).
• Federal K-12 Educational Standards
• Bibliography on ultra-high energy cosmic ray research.
• Map showing potential WALTA sites (.jpg, 160K)
• List of coordinates and plot (.pdf file) for potential WALTA module sites
• WALTA at Mercer Island HS
• WALTA at UW-NPL
• LINKS of special interest, including websites that were mentioned during Seattle workshop (suggested additions welcome):
  • ALTA (Edmonton area)
  • CHICOS (L.A. area)
  • CROP (Nebraska)
  • Quarknet at Fermilab
  • LBNL's ABC's of Nuclear Science and Teacher's Guide to the Nuclear Wall Chart pages
  • Preston College (UK)
  • Van Nuys HS class site, and teacher Arthur Altshiller's home page
  • LBNL cosmic ray telescope for school use (home page of Howard Matis)
  • UW K12 Institute
  • Commercial suppliers of home/school weather station equipment
  • Books of interest to non-specialists
  • Greg Snow and others talking about CROP on NPR (8/3/00) (28.8 kb .rmm sound file, 4.5 minutes)
  • Review article: Observations and implications of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, by M.Nagano and A.A.Watson, Reviews of Modern Physics, 72:733-767 (July, 2000). This link only works if your institution has a subscription to RMP/online; otherwise you must go to your local library for a print copy.
  • The following pre-meeting pages are left in place for your information, but will no longer be maintained: General information for workshop participants, Preliminary Agenda (final agenda is on transparencies page linked above), Maps and driving information .
  • More related links
• UW group archives ( password required)

2000 Workshop on Cosmic Ray Physics with
School-Based Detector Networks

University of Washington/Seattle
September 21-23, 2000

A workshop for physicists and educators, to explore options for connecting research on the frontiers of astrophysics with secondary school classrooms.

Post-meeting note: Many thanks to all the participants who made the workshop such a valuable experience!

Workshop transparencies (to be filled in as participants send us files!)

• List of participants (if your name does not appear, please send the necessary info to J. Wilkes!)

Last update: 07/23/2001
Web maintained by: R. J. Wilkes, wilkes@phys.washington.edu

Press here for "Cosmic Rays" by Charlie Parker, 1952. (.wav, 248K, 30 sec)