What I do....

I am currently studying terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs). They were first discovered in 1994 by BATSE as intense gamma ray flashes with time scales on the order of milliseconds and energies up to at least 40MeV. TGFs are associated with high lightning activity and more specifically with intracloud lightning. Their existence has been confirmed by RHESSI and GBM in recent years. I currently have three weather boxes on the roof of Nicholson Hall with three NaI detectors in each box monitoring the sky. Currently, we see an increase in count rate when thunderstorms pass directly over LSU's campus. Interesting....