College of Letters and Science

In the Shadow of the Moon: Planning an Eclipse Expedition

Stevenson, Arthur T.; Wernicke, Liza J. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019)

Traveling as a group to see the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse was a once in a lifetime experience for the sixteen members of an eclipse expedition from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I had the pleasurable ...
Birds, Bees--and Cookies? Great Plains Bioclimatology Observations during the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017

Heywood, Neil C.; Zellmer, Pat; Reser, Ray (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019)

Our overall field team dedicated five personnel to observing meteorological and biotic aberrations during the August 2017 total solar eclipse on the high plains of Nebraska and Wyoming. We regularly recorded both visual ...