Research
Four questions about Nepal, each worked on with the schools and communities where it happens. One is under way: temperature sensors going into the walls of a school hall in Dolpo. The others are planned, and start when their instrument is built or their funding is found.
Four areas
Weather and Air Across Altitude
Nepal rises from 60 m to 8,849 m in under 200 km, and its air-quality stations all sit below 1,500 m. A line of school stations from the plains to Dolpo would measure how weather, air and snow change with height.
Cosmic Ray Physics
Systematic measurement of cosmic ray muon flux across Nepal's altitude gradient — 60 m to 5,000+ m — using custom scintillator-SiPM detectors.
Buildings at Altitude
Heating a school at 4,000 m without imported fuel means designing for this altitude and this sun. In Dho Tarap, 25 temperature sensors are going into the walls of Crystal Mountain School's new passive-solar hall as it rises. No logger is connected yet.
Cosmic Rays and the Sky
More cosmic-ray muons reach the ground the higher you go, and Nepal's climb from the plains to the high Himalaya is the place to measure it: muon detectors along the transect, and for meteors, the all-sky camera and then radar.
Mountain Hazards
A road and a planned town are coming to Dho Tarap. Mapping its debris-flow and earthquake hazards first, with the people who live there, would show where it is safe to build.