{"id":209,"date":"2016-03-10T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurorasaurudev.wpengine.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2023-12-26T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:57:50","slug":"citizen-scientists-track-march-6-7-2016-aurora-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Citizen scientists track March 6-7, 2016 aurora storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drGxNzi8GNc\" width=\"739\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, March 6, 2016, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/03\/07\/strong-geomagnetic-storm-lights-up-the-sky-with-beautiful-aurora-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strong geomagnetic storm brought beautiful aurora<\/a> for skywatchers in the United States and Europe.\u00a0Magnetic field and plasma data from the NASA&#8217;s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft suggest that the strong increase in geomagnetic activity on Sunday occurred\u00a0because of a coronal mass ejection with a filament eruption near a center disk that occurred three days earlier and a coronal hole high speed stream.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen scientists reported seeing aurora in the midlands of England, the north coast of the Netherlands, and areas in the United States such as Maine, New York, Minnesota and North Dakota. The video above shows citizen science reports from March 6, 2016 at 10am EST to March 7, 2016 at 3am EST.\u00a0During March 1- 8, 2016, users verified 101 aurora-related\u00a0tweets. Users submitted 53 observations\u00a0through Aurorasaurus app and website.<\/p>\n<p>You can continue verifying tweets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Aurorasaurus.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aurorasaurus.org<\/a> to help predict our algorithm for future storms! Just make sure you change the date and time on our map to March 6th and 7th when the storm was active. Thanks to all of our citizen scientists!<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photographs taken from our citizen scientists during the storm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_thompson.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-223\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/a_thompson.jpeg\" alt=\"Aurora Borealis over the St Andrews Castle, Scotland Credit: Alex Thompson.\" width=\"830\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurora Borealis over the St Andrews Castle, Scotland.\u00a0Credit: Alex Thompson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC08631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-217\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC08631.jpg\" alt=\"DSC08631\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken in Akureyri, Iceland on March 8, 2016. Credit: Jason Grunstra (http:\/\/mnml.me)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC09020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC09020.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09020\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken at Go\u00f0afoss Waterfall, Iceland on March 9, 2016. Credit: Jason Grunstra (http:\/\/mnml.me)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC09821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-219\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC09821.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09821\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken in Reykjahl\u00ed\u00f0, Iceland on March 10, 2016. Credit: Jason Grunstra (http:\/\/mnml.me)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC09838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC09838.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09838\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken in Reykjahl\u00ed\u00f0, Iceland on March 10, 2016. Credit: Jason Grunstra (http:\/\/mnml.me)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC08120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-221\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC08120.jpg\" alt=\"DSC08120\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken in Sau\u00f0\u00e1rkr\u00f3kur, Iceland on March 7, 2016 Credit: Jason Grunstra (http:\/\/mnml.me)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen scientists reported seeing aurora in the midlands of England, the north coast of the Netherlands, and areas in the United States such as Maine, New York, Minnesota and North Dakota. Check out the pictures from the storm and a video showing citizen science reports from March 6, 2016 at 10am EST to March 7, 2016 at 3am EST. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analyzing-aurorasaurus-data","category-solar-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}