Chelen Johnson
This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2014, and done by NITARP or Spitzer alumni with (or without) students outside of a formal NITARP team.
My highlight of the [Caltech] trip was watching my two students present data on a source which they had analyzed.
The experience has changed my understanding of astronomy and how it is done, but not of astronomers.
I have a much better sense of what research astronomy is about now, and I think I will have more confidence to try new things (related to astronomy) going forward.
