Speaker:	Dr. David Steele and the NiteOwls
Topic:		Parachute or Freefall: Ozone, Synergy, and Getting a Job
Date:		Thursday, November 7, 1996
Time:		3:30 p.m.
Place:		103 Physics Building

				Abstract

A team of faculty, staff, and graduate students from five departments
across three faculties at the University of Saskatchewan, together with
SCI-TEC Instruments Inc. of Saskatoon, is preparing a proposal to the
Canadian Space Agency for the Small Payloads Program. The proposal
describes a means of measuring ozone from space by observing its effect
on starlight, but the experiment is only one novel aspect of the
proposal. The students' participation is earning them graduate course
credit, valuable experience in competing for external funding, and a
"three-month interview" with the industrial partner in the proposal
team.

Members of the NITEOWL team will review the program requirements, how
these are being met through wide interdisciplinary collaboration and
integral student involvement, and the prospects for further student
opportunities in research and industry.