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The meeting took place on April 17, 2025 at 7 PM on Zoom and at the  Robinson Nature Center  
STELLA combines inexpensive sensors with user-friendly software and 3D-printable housings to produce lightweight, handheld instruments whose components retail for approximately $200, and whose weight, depending on configuration, ranges from 33 to 450g. Some of the STELLA instruments can be built without any tools at all, by simply connecting components with inexpensive, commercially available cables. Each version of STELLA is supported with illustrated, step-by-step instructions, and programmed by drag-and-drop copying. STELLA instruments’ small size, low-cost, and ease of assembly make them ideal for scientific and educational applications where deployment across many users is important, and STELLA’s multi-platform software allows users with a wide range of scientific and technical knowledge to collect, download, and interpret data from any STELLA instrument.

Bio: Mike Taylor has been working at NASA Goddard on the Landsat Communications and Public Engagement team as a contractor with SSAI for 17 years. He holds an undergraduate and graduate degree from the University of Maryland College Park is co-lead of the Climate Change Research Initiative Education Ambassadors and board member of Clean Air Partners. For the past 3 years he has been working to help develop and inform others about the STELLA project.