Vermont native and NASA-sponsored researcher returns to Burlington to study solar eclipse [Video]

Monday’s eclipse was a full-circle moment for a native Vermont researcher who made a triumphant return to his home state to see the total solar eclipse.Sean McBride, who is now sponsored by NASA, spent the three minutes of totality with his former science teacher from Burlington High School.”It’s almost like a big playoff game in sports or something. We have to have everything working and executing at the exact right time in order for us to get the data, get the science we need,” said McBride. McBride is a graduate student at both the University of Michigan and Harvard and is one of several teams across North America working on NASA’s Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast Initiative.”We’re trying to get video or images to make into a composite video to show totality over sites like here in Burlington, Vermont, but throughout most of North America,” he said.Nearly 300 researchers are involved in …