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Professor Agrimson uses high altitude weather balloons as a delivery method to send up payload boxes with varied instrumentation to study near space. St. Kate’s has had balloons reach altitudes of up to 35,000 meters (~115,000 feet) depending on the size of balloon used and payload mass. One of the current projects involving collaborative undergraduate researchers is the study of the Regener-Pfotzer (R-P) maxima to study galactic cosmic ray showers. Agrimson holds a BS (with a concentration in space physics) from Augsburg College, an MS from the University of Iowa and has completed advanced coursework toward a PhD in plasma physics. He currently is serving as affiliate director for ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â’s portion of the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium, a NASA outreach program. Since 2009 serving as director St. Kate's has received funding for almost one-hundred thousand for student need based scholarships in STEM fields and over three hundred and fifty thousand total for scholarships, collaborative undergraduate research, program development and outreach. Agrimson has taught the physics for the health sciences course, conceptual physics, ultrasound physics, medical physics as well as modern physics at St. Kate’s.