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Dear Delta High Students,

First and foremost: Thank you all for your great work! Unfortunately our regular work on the Black Rock Mesa will come to an earlier than expected end. As of next month we will no longer maintain routine operation for data taking. The laser will disappear from Oak City's TV hill shortly now, and after that we will be out there with temporary equipment for a few nights only to make calibration measurements. Unfortunately no help will be needed for those since they will likely not be on the weekend.

If some of you have an idea for a measurement that you would like to do with us, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at kai@physics.utah.edu. Things that other students have done for science fairs are for example to measure the speed of light (trusting our timing calibration) from the laser beam ascending in the sky. With the mobile laser equipment that we will be using sporadically over the next two months we can make such measurements - or any other sensible measurement you may propose. We will reserve the right to define what sensible is though... After those two months the equipment on Black Rock Mesa (mirror and friends) will follow in the footsteps of the Oak City laser and move closer to Dugway.

We are going to prepare a computer with data taken at Black Rock for you. If some of you should have interest in analyzing any of this data in your free time you are very welcome. We will have to find a way to help you getting started though... That would also be the place where your special suggestion data would end up. So if you have any suggestions for us what to measure for our own or your good: please let us know. Maybe we can even take that special data with your help for one last time.

Once again: A big thanks. And I hope you will now soon all get your checks. The paperwork is confirmed complete, and the bureaucracy is working its way through it.

See you in Delta, best, Kai