The Stratospheric Ballooning Association, in partnership with Iowa State University, hosts all of our conference papers in this digital repository. The Academic High Altitude Conference (AHAC) is an annual conference that is run in coordination with the Stratospheric Ballooning Association, Iowa State University, and the Iowa Space Grant Consortium. The conference focuses on high-altitude balloons for STEM education, research, and technology development.
This digital repository also stores special event conferences (like the Between Eclipses Remote Conference) and is open to the public.
The Academic High Altitude Conference Proceedings are published by the Stratospheric Ballooning Association and the Iowa State University Digital Press.
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Academic High Altitude Conference 2024
Posted by Matthew Erik Nelson on 2024-02-29
The Stratospheric Ballooning Association (SBA) is pleased to announce the 2024 Academic High Altitude Conference (AHAC) that will be held from 1 p.m. on May 29th to noon on May 31st. AHAC 2024 will be hosted by St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. This year’s theme will be “Eclipse flights and beyond.”The conference is open to all members of the public. SBA members receive discounts to the [...]
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Poster Presentations
Development of a Stratospheric Rube Goldberg Machine for a Potential Ballooning Competition
Mir Ali, Keenan Raby and James Flaten
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Flying Cloud Chambers on Stratospheric Balloon Missions
Monica Robles, Aksinya Kamenshikova and James Flaten
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Atmosys: The Atmospheric Operating System
David Brown and Jared Leidich
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
High-Altitude Ballooning for Muon Detection: Preliminary Testing for an International Research Collaboration
Aaron Jia, Leo Cohen, Judah Meyer, Reed Knoblock and Alissa Sperling
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
NEBP Continuation Project: Radiation Measurement after Coronal Mass Ejection Arrival
Mohanad Alameer, Charly Euceda, Ryan Liley, Aarya Siwakoti, Aditya Yadav, Yezad Anklesaria, Donna Jennings, Henry Pernicka and Jillian Schmidt
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Pushing Camera Limits for Near Space Photography
Jude Hackford, Ariana Chan-van der Helm and Alissa Sperling
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Testing a Passive Cooling Covering for High-Altitude Balloon Payload Thermal Regulation
Gerard T Blanchard, Kara Barbier, Rowan Merritt, Avery Ockman and Joseph Scott
2025-06-26 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
The stories a high-altitude ballooning trailer can tell….
Erick Paul Agrimson
2025-09-18 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Manuscripts
Investigating Stabilization in Lower Stratospheric Temperature and Atmospheric Gravity Waves During the April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse.
Oluwafolake Ayano, Charlie Mikels, Amish Mishra, Ian Oatis, Ethan Elliott and Ethan Sosnowski
2025-09-02 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Application Notes from April 2025 Radiosonde and Ground Station/Tracker Intercomparison Study
Grace Teall, Kiefer Neumann, Aidan Halloran, Tarek Ibrahim, Xuan Zhang, Jamal Bouajjaj, Nathan Seifert and CHONG QIU
2025-09-14 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Rust-Based Ground Station Software for High Altitude Ballooning
Ayush Sahoo, Kalp Patel, Samhita Saragadam, Anthony Choi and Hunmin Kim
2025-09-14 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
January 2025 Atmospheric Dynamics over the Gulf Stream Radiosonde Campaign with High Temporal Resolution
Grace Teall, Tarek Ibrahim and CHONG QIU
2025-09-14 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference
Testing Low-Cost Geiger Counters for Potential Use on Stratospheric Ballooning Missions
Joseph Shin, Daniel Margosian and James Flaten
2025-09-14 2025 Academic High Altitude Conference