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HACORD 2015

Organization(s):Pontes Het Goese Lyceum, locatie oranjeweg
Country:Netherlands
Student(s):Arie Storm Joey Dekker Koen Vlaswinkel Marijn de Vos
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Educator(s):Diana Robyn
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Date Submitted:2016-03-10
It is important to know how the cosmic radiation on earth fluctuates, because this radiation influences many things in our life. That is why the University of Antwerp has started an investigation on the relation of the solar cycle and the amount of cosmic radiation for the ASGARD research project. They had the following question: “Is there a correlation between the intensity of cosmic radiation and the solar cycle?” Together with the KNMI we released a weather balloon, equipped with the HACORD provided by the University of Antwerp. The data gathered by the HACORD was sent to us, which we filtered, processed and visualized. All of the information gathered from this year was compared to results from earlier investigations in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The data gathered was almost identical to that of previous years. This means that the intensity of cosmic radiation has not changed. From our data, we can therefore not conclude that the solar cycle influences the intensity of cosmic radiation in our atmosphere. However, a solar cycle lasts 11 years and we have only gathered data on four consecutive years. For a better conclusion to be drawn, more information should be gathered in the following years.


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Olawale Ayodeji Oluwafemi
9 Years Ago
1. I could'nt locate your abstract in your report.I Think your summary or preface should be better worked on and tagged Abstract.
2.You have demostrated highest level of empirical studies and competence in your report. I really appreciate that.
3. You have a well arranged Bibliography /Citations none of your citation reflected in the body of your report.
4. I have really learnt a lot from your report. I appreciate your collaborations and connections you have made. It's really made your work more scientific.
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Student 1 of Diana Robyn-Vlaswinkel
9 Years Ago
1. We have only submitted our abstract on the GLOBE website, which can be seen on our page. Our summary can indeed also be seen as an abstract, although it is longer than 200 words, which is why we created a separate abstract which we only submitted to the website.
2. Thank you!
3. Thank you. We have indeed not added footnotes or the like when we used information from a website. We did however not directly cite from one of our sources in our report, unless specifically mentioned. The sources in our bibliography were only used for us to gather information about a topic so we could write our own interpretation of it, which can for example be found in our analyses.
4. Thank you!
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Waleska Aldana Segura
9 Years Ago
Impressive work!
a) what advice would you give students to get the kind of collaboration you got from Universities and researchers?
b) from your data you have drawn some conclusions, could you elaborate a little more on them?

Congratulations, greetings from Guatemala.
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Student 1 of Diana Robyn-Vlaswinkel
9 Years Ago
Thank you!
a) The best idea is to just get in contact with a university or a research institution. It is actually just about your message going to the right people in the organization. The contacts our teacher had at the universities helped to get started.
b) We researched whether the solar cycle has an effect on the cosmic radiation received on Earth. Unfortunately, we do not have enough data to clearly identify this relationship, so therefore we recommend this research is continued by the University of Antwerp.