Photo Above: Deer Trail Colorado with a balloon that is about 500 feet off the ground going up.     

Student Involvement As our motto implies, education plays a very important role in EOSS activities. Although each flight is a learning experience for our members, EOSS actively solicits schools to enhance their science and technology curricula with a trip to the Edge of Space. 
    
EOSS has worked with many Colorado schools, from middle schools in Pueblo, Longmont and Aurora through high schools and Colorado Space Grant colleges. We have also worked with other science-oriented youth groups, such as the Lockheed-Martin Explorers, IAAS and STARS. Student experiments have ranged from simple temperature and pressure telemetry to gas sampling and solar telescopes. Many student groups have gained valuable knowledge simply by participating in EOSS launch, telemetry and DF tracking activities.

     EOSS members have conducted classroom presentations ranging from short briefings to day-long seminars, and many hours have been devoted to helping students prepare their payloads for launch. EOSS has also provided its well developed operational skills to several organizations engaged in scientific research, including NOAA's Forecast Systems Lab and contractors to JPL's Mars Microballoon Project. In 1993, EOSS hosted the first National Balloon Symposium, bringing together experts from both professional and amateur balloon groups nationwide. More Information: http://eoss.org/

Ron Schaffer / wd0bdq

We ask that our observers all use the same type of rain gauge. If you do not currently have a 4” plastic rain gauge, you may contact your local coordinator or purchase one on-line from our “Official CoCoRaHS Rain Gauge” supplier: www.weatheryourway.com to get your gauge at the special CoCoRaHS price.   COORDINATOR: Irene Hubert:   The Weather Station that I have in Deer Trail has a modified Rain Gauge that I installed, and reads the moisture at .010 each tip and is very actuate. With that I am using the LaCross Weather Station with Heavy Weather Software going into Weather Display and out to the Internet. Many station are picking up my data and use it on there servers.   I belong to the EOSS at: http://www.eoss.org/pubs/eossinfo.htm My Weather Page Information is at: http://www.deertrailco.net/weatherstation.html   http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=DW0573 http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base.cgi?stn=D0573&product=&time=LOCAL http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=80105   Did you notice the change that was made with the, or did you change?  Lat: N 39 ° 36 ' 41 '' ( 39.612 ° ) Lon: W 104 ° 2 ' 37 '' ( -104.044 ° ) Elevation (ft): 5193 MADIS ID: APRSWXNET Deer Trail CO US, Deer Trail, Colorado (PWS) Hardware: LaCross 2317 Weather Station Software: Weather Display.     Thank you                      Ron Schaffer 379 2nd Ave. POB131 Deer Trail, Colorado   80105-0131 303-769-4951   Ronschaffer@Deertrailco.net www.Deertrailco.net Think Green -------Original Message-------   From: Zach Schwalbe Date: 11/17/09 14:22:53 To: Ronschaffer@Deertrailco.net Cc: madweaverirene@aol.com;  Chris Spears Subject: Welcome New Colorado CoCoRaHS Volunteer!   Greetings Ronald Schaffer, Welcome to the CoCoRaHS Network.  We are glad to have you as part of our network helping to track precipitation across the great state of Colorado. We appreciate your assistance.   You have been assigned the following CoCoRaHS' station number, station name and local coordinator(s): STATION NUMBER: CO-AR-217 STATION NAME: Deer Trail 0.4 SSW COORDINATOR: Irene Hubert If the above information is incorrect, please reply to this e-mail with the subject line reading "Correction". The correction may be included in the body of the e-mail. Please read the attached document for detailed instructions on how to report information and take measurements.  You may wish to check our Web site at (www.cocorahs.org) under the “calendar” section for nearby training sessions as well as the Colorado state page (http://www.cocorahs.org/State.aspx?state=CO) We ask that our observers all use the same type of rain gauge. If you do not currently have a 4” plastic rain gauge, you may contact your local coordinator or purchase one on-line from our “Official CoCoRaHS Rain Gauge” supplier: www.weatheryourway.com to get your gauge at the special CoCoRaHS price.   If you need additional supplies we ask that you contact your local or state coordinator.  A full list of coordinators can be found at:  (www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=coord)   Once again, thank you for joining us as we measure and map precipitation in Colorado, hoping to make “every drop count”!   The CoCoRaHS Team -- CoCoRaHS Station Administrator zach@cocorahs.org

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I have one in my house and installed one at the Deer Trail School & the Deer Trail Library and the one at the Byers, Colorado. Library. The Town of Deer Trail has one too.

Ron's Weather Station Display on the Computer

La Crosse Technology #2317

in Deer Trail, Colorado. 80105

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Next Flight: Spring 2009

Update, Update DW0573

Edge of Space Sciences:

06/13/2008 21:25:56 (CDT) - Payload Plan updated to include the SamCam and final student payload weights, Student payload synopsis added

EOSS-128/EOSS-129 FAA FLIGHT Certificate of Waiver or Authorization - All parties involved in flight operations please READ and be familiar with the provisions of the waiver. READ THIS to find out why.

LAUNCH DATE: June 14th, 2008 (wx +1) LAUNCH TIME: EOSS128 - 07:30 MDT (13:30 UTC) EOSS129 - 08:15 MDT (14:15 UTC) LAUNCH SITE: Deer Trail, CO (directions) Up Coming Flight

http://www.eoss.org/flight/prediction.htm Videos & Photos by: Ron Schaffer ~ WD0BDQ

EOSS Flight 130 are scheduled for July 26, 2008 with a NOAA weather date using Ron's Weather Station DW0573 of July 26, 2008. Launch time for 8:00 a. m. Launch site will be Deer Trail School grounds in Deer Trail Colorado.
Ron took this video over at the football field, which is about 16 minuts long and a friend of my upladed it to youtube on the Internet. Now, I upload many videos since I don't use webshot, because they only let us upload  only 3 minutes total. This flight is on behalf of the Colorado Space Grant. Ron Schaffer 

The weather station that was installed on the roof of Deer Trail School had to be removed when the building was upgraded this winter.  Ron Schaeffer, WD0BDQ, took charge of the removal of the equipment and he stored everything in his garage.  He has also installed a weather station on the roof of his house just across the street from the school.  You can see details of his station and the data here

http://www.wxqa.com/cgi-bin/search1.cgi?keyword=Deer+Trail

Randy has included Ron’s station (DW0573) in the weather analysis that is given here,

http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/sdb/briefdtr.htm

If you click on “predictions” at the upper right of Randy’s web page, you can see predictions of the surface conditions at Deer Trail for times around the balloon launch.  The predictions come from the GFS which is the same model that Randy and Rick use for the trajectory predictions. 6/7/2006  Russ Chadwick Vice President EOSS ~ KB0TVJ Ronschaffer@Deertrailco.net

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