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Summary of the 2007 CEDAR Student Poster Competition

This year's poster competition was organized by Anthea Coster, Rick Doe, and Diego Janches of the CSSC with the help of Barbara Emery, Susan Baltuch, and the support of the 11 volunteer poster judges. The competition was organized so that each poster was seen by a minimum of two judges, and each student had at least one judge stopping by their poster to discuss it with them. There were a total of 59 student posters (of approximately 120 posters in total). There were 28 in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Magnetosphere (ITM) section and 31 posters in the Mesosphere - Lower Thermosphere (MLT) section.

The first place winners of the two sections were: First Place

• MLT - Jeremy Andre Riousset, "Physical Mechanisms of Blue Jets and Gigantic Jets", Pennsylvania State University
• ITM - Matthew Zettergren, "The Aeronomy of Auroral Ion Upflow", Boston University

Eight undergraduate students participated in the competition. One student Roger Hale Varney of Cornell University was recognized with a special undergraduate award, for the poster: "Observations of Electric Fields Associated with Internal Gravity Waves."

In addition, this year each section had a second place winner and two honorable mentions.

This year the second place winners were: Second Place

• MLT - Ashley Wiren, "E-Region Ion Motion and Related Thermospheric Properties", University of Colorado
• ITM - Chad G. Carlson, "A 1083 nm lidar for observations of temperature in the upper thermosphere", University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

and the honorable mentions were: Chunmei Kang, University of Colorado, Alexander Hassiotis, Pennsylvania State University, Tzu-Wei Fang, Institute of Space Science, and Shasha Zou, UCLA

The poster judges recognized a number of very high quality posters this year making the decision process difficult. Nevertheless, they provided their opinions as to what factors, other than the quality of the research, that were important to them in their judging. Their advise to students who plan on entering next years competition is given here:

• Show up
• Don't make graphics too small
• Graphs need captions
• Labels must be legible
• Text should be visible from 3 feet away (including axes)
• Poster objectives should be prominent
• State methods in abstract
• Don't cram an entire JGR paper onto poster
• Each section should be summarized
• Dry run and proof read
• Posters should be both stand alone and complement the oral presentation
• Include historical context and highlight this at the outset

We would like to thank Barbara Emery, our judges, and all of the students who participated in this year's competition.

Anthea Coster, Rick Doe, Diego Janches