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I'm Jeff Spahn and I teach AP and Regents Physics at Rocky Point High School. Before teaching, I worked as a software consultant, managed software development and support for CitiBank, and developed high performance data collection systems for NASA and other government agencies.

I received my BS from Stevens Institute of Technology, and later got my PhD in high energy physics from UCLA using data I collected at the Intersecting Storage Rings at CERN.

On MARIACHI, some students and I set up a shower detector at Rocky Point High School . I also developed the initial Data Acquisition system, and wrote the scintillator site collection software, MARIACHI Live! and the Google Map of the MARIACHI collection sites .

This past summer, I did research as part of DOE's ACTS Program. I installed and testing next generation MARIACHI shower detectors in several sites. I also combined the MARIACHI Live! and Collection Site displays into a single Google Map-based real time display of MARIACHI site status. The new display is here. Because of the type of file I used for the status data, you can also look at it in Google Earth by adding a Network Link to http://www-mariachi.physics.sunysb.edu/data/status/status.kml .

I've just finished version 1.1 of a widget that lets Apple users see the MARIACHI site status display on their dashboard. You can get a copy of the widget here. Just download and unzip it, and put it in your widget folder.