Session 35. Professional-Amateur Collaboration for Enhanced Research

Topical Session, Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 710/712

35.01 Amateur Astronomers As Both Observers & Data Analysts

C. A. Price, J. A. Mattei (AAVSO)

35.02 The AAS Professional-Amateur Electronic Registry

J. Stoner, J. Stevens (Astronomical League)

35.03 Amateur Astronomers as Outreach Ambassadors: Pro-Am Collaborations for Education and Public Outreach

S. Chippindale, M. Bennett (ASP)

35.04 Amateur Spectroscopy: What is Achievable from the Backyard?

D.E. Mais (Palomar College), R.E. Stencel (U. Denver)

35.05 IAPPP and the Pro-Am Connection

D. S. Hall (IAPPP and Vanderbilt University)

35.06 The Small Telescope Science Program for the NASA Deep Impact Mission

S.A. McLaughlin, L.A. McFadden (Univ. of Maryland), G. Emerson (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.)

35.07 Professional-Amateur Collaboration in Planetary Studies

R. W. Schmude (Gordon College)

35.08 Asteroid Lightcurve Photometry

A. W. Harris (Space Science Institute)

35.09 Photometric Monitoring of cenaturs and Comets

W. Romanishin (U. of Oklahoma)

35.10 Tranistsearch: A Collaboration with Amateur Astronomers to Discover Transiting Extrasolar Planets

T.P. Castellano (NASA Ames Research Center)

35.11 Surveying the Southern Sky with a Robotic Camera

J. E. Gaustad (Swarthmore College), W. Rosing (Las Cumbres Obs.)

35.12 Pro-Am Collaborations on Eclipsing Binary Star Problems

D. Terrell (Southwest Research Institute)

35.13 Observing Blazar Variability: The GTN-AAVSO Collaboration

G. Spear (SSU), A. Price (AAVSO), P. Plait, T. Graves, L. Cominsky (SSU), J. Mattei (AAVSO)