Chelen Johnson
Morphology and Orientaion Research: Inclination of AGN (MORIA) -- All-Volunteer NITARP 2026 team studying AGN with Euclid.
For me as an educator, it was really rejuvenating to come out here (and bring a student with) and dive into actual astronomical research.
I really enjoyed meeting members of the other NITARP teams and comparing their experience to mine. Everyone’s experience was different, but there seemed to be an overwhelming consensus that NITARP was the most significant, educational, and enjoyable professional development experience they have ever had. I could not agree more.
To me what stood out [at my first AAS] was the wide variety of work – from characterization of the structure of the Milky Way (more of a challenge than I ever knew!) to the search for and characterization of exoplanets to the understanding of how quasar evolution relates to the origins of the Universe.
