Summer Schedule
Shortly after your arrival, you will attend an Orientation
with all the NRAO summer students. This will cover much of the
information presented on this page. You will also be required to
attend a Safety Orientation Meeting for new employees.
Your project adviser will have told you the topic of your research
prior to your acceptance. You will spend the next 10-12 weeks
on this project. At the end of your appointment, you will give a ~20-30min
talk to the scientific staff about your research, and
will write up a short project summary. Examples of previous years
projects are linked to from the general
summer student webpage.
If you obtain results that you
and your adviser think are worth presenting at the winter meeting of the
American Astronomical Society, then
the NRAO has some limited funds that you can apply for to pay for your
travel and stay. Please see
http://www.nrao.edu/students/NRAOstudents_aas.shtml
for instructions on how to apply for this support.
During the summer, there will be lectures that
will feature local members of the scientific or engineering staff.
These will be introductory talks about
various fields in astronomy.
Green Bank students also make a trip to the
NRAO site at Charlottesville,
Virginia, to interact with the
Charlottesville summer students. The NRAO site in Charlottesville
is the future site of the North American ALMA Science Center.
The students will also present a short (~5 min) lunch talk to the
Charlottesville staff on their research in Green Bank.
The current summer student schedule can be found
