Resources: Check out the online resources or contact someone.

• Step-by-Step Instructions and Tutorial - Understand how to do and interpret the output of the Performance Study.
• Step-by-Step Instructions and Tutorial - Learn how to understand the results of a Flux Study.
• Step-by-Step Instructions and Tutorial - Discover how to tell if you have seen a shower.
• Step-by-Step Instructions and Tutorial - Discover how to read a Lifetime Study graph.
• Step-by-Step Instructions and Tutorial - Learn how to understand the results of a Time of Flight Study .
• Advanced details on how to use the CRMD:
  Series "6000" CRMD Users Manual
• Learn how to assemble the CRMD:
  Series "6000" CRMD Assembly Instructions
• Series "6000" CRMD Plateauing Instructions:
  "6000" HOWTO PowerPoint
  "6000" SpreadSheet Form

• "6000" Series DAQ data collection software: EQUIP java interface
• EQUIP on Raspberry Pi
• How to use EQUIP
• Step-by-Step Instructions to fix the incorrect date produced by GPS hardware.

Physicists

• Henry Glass - Fermilab/Auger
• Mark Adams - Fermilab
• Randy Ruchti - Notre Dame University

• Classroom Cosmic Ray Detector - Equipment to collect data.
• Data Acquisition Card - How the DAQ works. Rollovers provide more information on the board and the format of the data. Has SOUND.

• Create a Graph - Practice making area, bar and line graphs and pie charts, from Kids'Zone at Shodor.
• Interactive X-Y plot - Enter and practice plotting your data, from Interactivate at Shodor.
• Scatter Plots - Create the most basic scatter plot, from Interactivate at Shodor.
• Graphs and Error Bars - A definition from Believe It or Not - A Skeptics Guide.
• Graphing Exponential Equations - Lessons from Purplemath.
• Histogram - All about histograms with an interactive example from Interactivate at Shodor.
• Histogram - An example.
• 3D Graphs - Examples from an individual at Deakin University.
• Scientific Plot - A line graph with error bars on points and best fit line.
• Experimental Error, from Cornell University Physics and Measurements, by JL Stanbrough.

• 200 and 5000 Series - Equipment and manuals.

General Background

• Wikipedia, a good place to start
• Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory - Background and Q&A
• Cosmic Extremes - Excellent cosmic ray overview from Columbia University (pdf file)
• Build a Cosmic Ray Cloud Chamber - Instructions (pdf file)
• Cosmic Rays, a larger perspective from NASA
• COSMICOPIA
• Cosmic Rays, from SLAC, Stanford University
• MINOS - Physicists detect cosmic rays in their neutrino detectors.
• IceTop and IceCube - Projects investigate neutrinos, but they also capture cosmic ray data.
• Cosmic Weather Gauges - Cosmic rays and upper atmospheric temperatures from Symmetry Magazine
• Leo's Logbook - Tips for keeping a logbook
• The SKY experiment, from Denmark.
• The CLOUD experiment - The role of cosmic rays in CLOUD function, an atmospheric research at CERN.
• Center for Sun-Climate Research - Investigation of the connection between solar activity and climatic changes on Earth.
• Cosmic Ray overview for students
• How to calculate barometric pressure correction
• Bartol Research Institute neutron monitor
• How strong is the weak force? New measurement of the muon lifetime

Cosmic Ray Simulations (need QuickTime plugin)

• COSMUS from University of Chicago
• Simulation, from Goethe Universitat Frankfurt am Main

Online Labs

• ASPIRE - Investigations into the origin of cosmic rays, from the University of Utah

Professional Sites (Very Advanced)

• Milagro Animations - Simulations of extensive air showers and Milagro Detector. Most movies run under 5 megabytes and are about 15 seconds long, by Miguel Morales (need QuickTime plugin)

The e-Lab uses distributed computing where multiple computers, networked together, perform the analysis of the data. Many scientists use the grid - one form of distributed computing. Learn more about the grid.

• See The Grid and The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for an introduction. From there, go to Grid Talk where you can read Grid Briefings and explore the Grid Guide, from CERN.
• Grids for Kids at TryScience - Use grid computing to model Mt. Vesuvius' volcanic activity and discover whether residents need warning, from New York Museum of Science.
• Grid Computing - Read the Wikipedia article on grid computing.

• ACM's Computing Degrees & Careers
• Prepare for an Information Technology (IT) Career, from Microsoft Learning.
• Training & Certifications from Cisco
• Career cluster from Nebraska Department of Education

• Defend your reseach, from MacSci Network
• Writing Abstracts - A good tutorial from Write Place
• Scrutinizing science: Peer review, from Understanding Science (University of California), explains the process.
• Research Citation (Purdue University): APA Formatting and Style Guide & MLA Formatting and Style Guide