Six self-named "Data Wranglers" spent the 1996 summer working at KPNO as part of the NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. The program involves students in active research programs being carried out by staff members of the observatory as well as a lecture series and observing runs using telescopes on Kitt Peak. The 1996 students and brief descriptions of their projects are listed below. Applications for the 1997 program will be due 14 February 1997 with invitations for participation being made on 1 March 1997. Please contact Buell Jannuzi (bjannuzi@noao.edu) for more information.
Ross Beyer (University of Illinois), worked with Michael Belton, Elizabeth Alvarez, and members of the Galileo Solid State Imaging Team to help the public dissemination of the early results from the Galileo Space craft mission to Jupiter. Ross also worked on several research projects, including a study of the terrain units of Uruk Sulcus, Ganymede.
Vanessa I. Harvey (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), worked with Nigel Sharp to produce multi-band images of the Fornax Cluster and M31 by scanning high quality photographic plates of these objects and then processing the resulting images.
Sean P. McGinnis (Case Western Reserve University), worked with Ata Sarajedini to estimate the metallicity of NGC 147, a dwarf elliptical satellite of M 31.
Cailin Nelson (Dartmouth College), worked with Todd Boroson to develop a simulator for the queue scheduling on a nightly basis of the Gemini 8m telescopes.
Sunny Snaith (Agnes Scott College), worked with Jeanette Barnes and members of the IRAF group to develop IRAF tutorials.
Megan J. Vogelaar (Vassar College), worked with Nigel Sharp and Dave DeYoung on a study of the Herbig-Haro Objects 106/107.
Buell Jannuzi