The Academic High Altitude Conference Proceedings are published by the Stratospheric Ballooning Association and the Iowa State University Digital Press.
Stratospheric Ballooning Association Conference Digital Repository
The Stratospheric Ballooning Association, in partnership with Iowa State University, hosts all of our conference papers in this digital repository. The Academic High Altitude Conference (AHAC) is an annual conference that is run in coordination with the Stratospheric Ballooning Association, Iowa State University, and the Iowa Space Grant Consortium. The conference focuses on high-altitude balloons for STEM education, research, and technology development.
This digital repository also stores special event conferences (like the Between Eclipses Remote Conference) and is open to the public.
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Academic High Altitude Conference 2025
Posted by Matthew Erik Nelson on 2025-02-28
The Stratospheric Ballooning Association (SBA) is pleased to announce the 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference (AHAC) that will be held from June 25th to June 27th. AHAC 2025 will be hosted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL. The conference is open to all members of the public. SBA members receive discounts for the conference. In-person workshop(s) will start on June 23rd.
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Posted by Matthew Erik Nelson on 2024-02-29
The Stratospheric Ballooning Association (SBA) is pleased to announce the 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference (AHAC) that will be held from 1 p.m. on May 29th to noon on May 31st. AHAC 2024 will be hosted by St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. This year’s theme will be “Eclipse flights and beyond.”The conference is open to all members of the public. SBA members receive discounts to the [...]
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Academic High Altitude Conference 2024
Poster Presentations
Flight Testing a New Venting System During Solar Eclipses
Rosalyn Friend, Hannah Popofski, David Pawlowski and Thomas Kovacs
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Development of Sensor Payload to Record Atmospheric Changes During the 2023 and 2024 Eclipses
Kate Spillman, Emalee Hough, Zach Yap, Jamey Jacob and Brian Elbing
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Single-Band Dual-Balloon Digital Communications Experiment
Ronald Adrey Fevig, Alex Blumenthal, Carson Turner, Luca Beretta, Jacob Stanley, Grant Hoff and Christopher Scott
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Field Test of Altitude-Controlled Stratospheric Ozonesonding with Vented Balloons during the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
CHONG QIU, Kiefer Neumann, Aidan Halloran, Robert Hibbard, Nicolas Babich, Tarek Ibrahim and Grace Teall
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
High Altitude Ballooning in a Required Spacecraft Design Course
Jililan Schmidt, Donna Jennings, Yezad Anklesaria and Henry Pernicka
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Optimizing Ubiquity, Iridium Cutdown, and RFD 900 for High-Altitude Balloon Solar Eclipse Missions.
Jeivian L Ramos Torres and Aum Anjan Dave
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Balloon Payload Desgin
Mike Bastidas, Chris Kelley, Edgar Bering and Andrew Renshaw
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Observations of UVA, UVB, and UVC from a sounding balloon from ground to 100,000ft
Beau Starks Johnson, Angelina Liemkeo, Caroline Davis, John Holley, Abigail Peck and Joyce Oluwaseun
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Comparison of Historical Sounding Data to the April 8th Total Eclipse: A Localized Variation Study
Arnab Bhatta, Joanna H. Rivers, Ashley Pailet, Sheldon Scott, Samuel Overton, Darian Moses, Cullen McKinley, Mark Stewart-Sims, Josef Ali Hightower-Hinawi, Marcelo Munguia, Sujit Mainali, Skyler Weathersby, Derrick Brown, Matthew Edouard, Dre'Shawna Bradley, Tomekia Simeon, Sonserae Fuery and Josiah Davis
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
The solar eclipse as an analogy for dissociation
Ashley Elizabeth Pailet
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Working an Eclipse Ballooning Campaign with Team Synergy
Darian Moses, Joanna H. Rivers, Ashley Pailet, Samuel Overton and Sheldon Scott
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Engaging teens in STEM: A Journey through the Nationwide Eclipse Science Ballooning Project
Bree Oatman, Dillon DeJong, Teijah Estes, Tanice Ziegler, Kambria Tamayo, Vincent Battese, Bradley LaForge and Chason Middletent
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
There's Room in Space for Everyone: Consortium Building Through Outreach Activities
Josef Ali Hightower-Hinawi, Sheldon Scott, Samuel Overton and Joanna H. Rivers
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Using 360-degree Cameras on Stratospheric Balloon Flights
Yoel Mekbeb, Jasmine Thayer and James Flaten
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
NEBP - University of Idaho April 2024 Total Eclipse
Caeley Hodges, Konstantine Geranios, Logan Kearney, Chase Long, Kyren Mesenbrink, Cole Long, Ashley Keeley, William Schaal and Shashwot Niraula
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Testing SPRINT in the Near-Space Environment
Ronald Adrey Fevig, Ryan Adams, Sreejith Nair, Dalia Ammar Khodja and Maleeha Altaf
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
High-Altitude Ballooning at Mercer; The Past, Present and Future.
Kalp Patel and Robert Bland
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Solar Energy Utilization for a High-Altitude Ballooning Trip
Ahmad Fayed, Joshua Lasseigne, Yumi Domangue and Eric Cross
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Advancement of University of Houston Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Program
Ryan Jochims-Torres, Edgar Bering, Andrew Renshaw, Jason Ruszkowski, Mike Bastidas, Kyle Myren, Chris Kelley, Zeel Engineer, Mohamad Meziou and Siyu Gan
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Manuscripts
PADL-33: A Low Cost Flight Computer for Stratospheric Ballooning and High-Power Rocketry
Ashton David Posey
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
DVB-S/2/X Transmission Methods
Brandon Michael Beaver
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
General Science Course Use of Inquiry-Guided Learning to Develop Near-Space Experiments
Derrick Anthony Nero
2024-05-24 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
USC Wide Angle Navigational Kinetic Eclipse Photography
Andrew Lana, Armen Arakelyan, Nicholas Lototsky, Howard Hall, Gabrielle Jung, Autumn Zaretsky, Cameron Coen, Faith Colon, Sahil Parmar, Jacob Meyer and Dan Erwin
2024-05-27 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Nebraska NEBP Eclipse Experience
Kendra Sibbernsen
2024-09-27 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Development of the HERMES Ground Station GUI for Antenna Pointing by NEBP Engineering Teams
Jesse Cook
2024-09-27 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
High-Altitude Balloons Flights on Total Solar Eclipse
Nirmal Patel, Aryan Patel, Dustin Leonard, Colin Ott, Cory Pare, Lovely Ramos, Calla Taylor, Julian Rowe and Larry Ratcliff
2024-09-27 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Stratospheric Eclipse Ballooning in 2023 and 2024: The U of MN – Twin Cities Experience Continues
Ethan Thompson-Jewell, Seyon Wallo, Jessica Glamm, Alexander Halatsis, Jesse Cook, Yoel Mekbeb, Jasmine Thayer, Ashton Posey, Noe Bazan, Edoardo Sangelaji and James Flaten
2024-05-31 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Olin College and Boston College’s High Altitude Balloon Flights During the 2023 Annular and 2024 Total Solar Eclipses
Mark Belanger, Anthony Cheung, Vaani Bhatnagar, Karina Lamoreux, Jojo Liu, Miranda Pietraski, Angel Rivas, Omar Salih, Jacob Smilg, Christopher Vidaurrazaga, Mihir Vemuri, Caitrin Lynch, Siddhartan Govindasamy and Christopher Lee
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
High Energy Radiation Detection During Solar Eclipse
Imaad Syed, Leonello Castro Cillis, Ismail Aadan, Kevin Whiten and Malcolm Maas
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Video Streaming with the Raspberry Pi 5
Noah Lambert, Aedan Bryant and Karun Varghese
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Wind Direction and Magnitude Determination Using Hall Effect-Based Rotary Encoders On High Altitude Balloons
Maxim Somov and Sujay Venuganti
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Solar Panel Efficiency and Visible Light Detection On High Altitude Balloons
Maxim Somov and Sujay Venuganti
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Solar Eclipse Impact on Atmosphere with High-Altitude Ballooning
Jessica Camarillo, Spencer Freedman, Christian Piscitelli, Andrew Rittenburg, Andrew Krebsbach, Drew Lauzier, Jonathan Ho, Isaac Akyigit, Sierra Hill, Alejandro Ayala, Emmi Nunes, Andrew Esteves, David Ngethe, Vlakyrie Fleischmann-Mcgarrah, Arthur Hornberger, Enrico Obst and Paul Slaboch
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
HAR: A Low-Cost Modular Flight Computer for High Altitude Ballooning
Nicholas A Goeckner and Matthew Erik Nelson
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference
Arizona Eclipse Ballooning Project
Courtney Banks, Jacqueline Do, Megan Miller, Ricardo Ontiveros, Sarina Blanchard, Everett Moore, Razak Adamu, Colin Brown, Tyler Derrick, Andrew Kwolek, Cristo Lopez, Vaidehi Pujary, Muhammed Topiwala, Macario Zapata and Thomas G. Sharp
2024-06-01 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference