Hubble-Bubble Nominees for 2011

The following nominees represent excellent work in the Group Web Projects, and, as such, CONSTITUTE MATERIAL THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL EXAM.

Nominees for Solar System Astronomy and Exploration

Group 1
Topic: What's planned for the Mars Science Lab Mission?
Group Members: Wesley Perry, Jingkun Li, Rebecca Maddox, Anna Springer, Brian Bergmann, William Diaz, Marjorie Schinner, Patrick Maney, Erik Waters
Group Leader:Blake Newsock

Group 3
Topic: What are we learning from the Kepler Mission?
Group Members: Que Anh Nguyen, Patrick Navin, Christian Cox, Victoria Thomas, Andrew Bell, Natasha Segarra, Lauren Trzeciak, Dylan Rape, Alec Hornecker
Group Leader: Andrew Humphrey

Group 6
Topic: What will the James Webb space telescope do?
Group Members: Cole Razete, Cole Meitner, McCrae Johnston, Danielle Ross, Hank Gloor, Matt Berning, Elizabeth Redwine, Ning Ding, Mike Mellott, John Cavalaris
Group Leader: Alexandra Rodgers

Nominees for Stellar Astronomy, Galactic Astronomy, and Cosmology

Group 9
Topic: What solutions have been proposed for the dark matter problem?
Group Members: Angela Marco, Stephen Doles, Mary Fanslow, Ben Heebsh, Justin Trick, Alex Shaffer, Sara Wehrle, Ben Hallenbeck, Alisa Tsentr
Group Leader: Charles Greener

Group 11
Topic: What is inflation in cosmology?
Group Members: Tyler Kelly, Trevor Jordan, Andrew Sapinsky, Jaynee Hiegel, John Dresher, Trent Waybright, Dylan Quenneville, William Sipe
Group Leader: Macie Farmer

Group 12
Topic: What is the Fermi Paradox and how is it resolved?
Group Members: George Lanier, Dixon Pike, Todd Kovin, Brendon Manahan, Sam Gettleman, Todd Weston, Persy Sample, Lance Greenberg, Erika Andler , Chase Lehigh, Michael Sullivan
Group Leader: Erika Gromosky