{"id":56039,"date":"2017-02-08T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=56039"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:53:40","slug":"maunakea-observatories-award-nanakuli-and-kapolei-high-school-students-with-research-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/maunakea-observatories-award-nanakuli-and-kapolei-high-school-students-with-research-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Maunakea Observatories award N\u0101n\u0101kuli and Kapolei students with research time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncJZHmxuM-4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>N&#257;n&#257;kuli and Kapolei High Schools students were recognized for their outstanding student proposals, as part of the Maunakea Scholars program. These scholars will be awarded telescope time on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfht.hawaii.edu\/\">Canada-France-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Telescope<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/subarutelescope.org\/\">Subaru Telescope<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/\">Gemini Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maunakea Scholars is an innovative program designed to bring <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s young, aspiring astronomers into the observatory community by competitively allocating observing time on Maunakea&#8217;s world-class telescopes. This program is the first of its kind internationally, leveraging the most powerful collection of telescopes in the world for the direct educational advancement of local high school students.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the Maunakea Scholars program go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfht.hawaii.edu\/en\/news\/MaunakeaScholars\/\">Canada-France-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Telescope website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>N&#257;n&#257;kuli scholars<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56051\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-nanakuli-jasmine.jpg\" alt=\"group of people\" width=\"619\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-nanakuli-jasmine.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-nanakuli-jasmine-260x84.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Atcherson, center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Jasmine Atcherson will study a rogue planet with <abbr title=\"Gemini Near Infra-Red Spectrograph\">GNIRS<\/abbr> at Gemini Observatory. She will use the world&#8217;s most sensitive infrared telescope to measure the composition of this free floating planet&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56049\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-nanakuli-amber.jpg\" alt=\"group of people\" width=\"619\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-nanakuli-amber.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-nanakuli-amber-260x84.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Nakata, center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Amber Nakata will research an eclipsing black hole binary system with Espadons on <abbr title=\"Canada France Hawaii Telescope\">CFHT<\/abbr>. Amber is the first Maunakea Scholar to receive three observing runs over a 6&#8211;9 month period. Combined, these data sets will allow Amber to monitor the time varying dynamics of the super heated gas falling into the black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Attending the award ceremony was Canada-France-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Telescope (CFHT) Director Doug Simons, N&#257;n&#257;kuli Principal Darren Pilialoha, State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Education Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> President David Lassner and CFHT Outreach Manager Mary Beth Laychak and N&#257;n&#257;kuli teacher Jameeka Marshall.<\/p>\n<h2>Kapolei scholars<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56050\" style=\"width: 619px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-kapolei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-kapolei.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-kapolei-260x147.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapolei High School Maunakea Scholars Chantelle Lopez, Emily Little, Ashlyn Takamiya and Justin Fernando with their teacher, mentors and CFHT staff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chantelle Lopez will study the rogue planet <abbr title=\"imaged planetary-mass companion orbiting the star GU Piscium\">GU Psc b<\/abbr> with <abbr>GNIRS<\/abbr> at Gemini Observatory, searching for signs of weather on this rare free-floating planet.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Little will research the comet 45P\/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdus&#225;kov&#225; using Espadons at <abbr>CFHT<\/abbr>. She is searching for deuterated water to determine the source of water on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Ashlyn Takamiya and Justin Fernando will study two supernova remnants using <abbr title=\"Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph\">FOCAS<\/abbr> at Subaru Telescope. They will use their data to determine if different supernovae mechanisms lead to the formation of different elements in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Story from Maunakea Astronomy News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> high school students put their observation time at the Canada-France-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>Telescope, Subaru Telescope and Gemini Observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":56058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[34,35,659,1347,14,9,56],"class_list":["post-56039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-maunakea-scholars","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/maunakea-scholars-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56039"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79037,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56039\/revisions\/79037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}