Space Weather: Education, Outreach and Emerging Markets
The "Education, Outreach and Emerging Markets (EOEM)" topical group is one of ESA's Space Weather Working Team topical groups. EOEM concerns education (primary to university), public outreach activities and emerging markets in the space weather field. [Click here for background information about EOEM.]
Space Weather 2010 Education and Outreach Events:
During the the 6th European Space Weather Week meeting in Brugge the "European Sun Festival", planned for summer 2010, was announced at the COST Management Committee meeting as well as at the SWWT Plenary. The original idea was that this event include solar industry, sociologists, astronomers, artists, etc. in Europe as well as outside Europe. Organising such a big event in such a short time has unfortunately proved impossible, and as a result the Sun Festival as a whole is currently postponed. However, due to the enthusiasm to this original event from the space / solar / astronomy communities we have decided to go ahead with a couple of smaller education / outreach events based on two items:
- I Love My Sun [ The "I LOVE MY SUN-2" event is based on Prof. Yurdanur Tulunay's proposed COST ES0803 WG3 Action for "SG3.4 General public outreach to the non-specialist". The initial idea was to have children with autism spectrun disorder and children with no autism spectrum disorder draw pictures of the Sun before and after hearing a lecture about the Sun. In the current proposal this will be extended to any type of class and school. The activity is aimed at school children in the age group 7-11 years old. If you are interested in participating in the "I LOVE MY SUN-2" event and would like more information please click here.
- Recently, Prof. Tulunay held a "I LOVE MY SUN" event at a private school in Ankara. For more information and inspiration, see:
- Total Solar Eclipse of 2010 July 11 [ This was the same day as the "FIFA 2010 World Cup" final in South Africa. Crossing the southern Pacific the 2010 July 11 total solar eclipse was a spectacular event.
News:
- Dr. Pål Brekke, Senior Advisor from the Norwegian Space Centre, has written the book "Sola – vår livgivende stjerne". It is a book filled with much information and looks at how our closest star works. A star which provides energy for life, generates the beautiful northern lights and influences our society in many ways. Included is a CD full of movies and animations, as well as student activities. This book is for anybody who wants to understand how our closest star works. Currently available in Norwegean.
- The aim of the HAMLET FP7 Project [Human Model MATROSHKA for Radiation Exposure Determination of Astronauts] is the effective scientific exploitation of data obtained from the ESA MATROSHKA project. This will be achieved by bringing together leading European scientists in the field of space dosimetry to increase and enhance the output of the project and present it to the European scientific community as well as the public audience. The intention of the HAMLET "Public Outreach Activity Days" is the presentation of the "science background", the "current state of research" and the "further planned activities" of the group to a scientific interested public audience.
Space Weather 2010 Workshops, Meetings, Sessions, Etc.:
- Session ST5/NH8.5 Space Weather and its Effects on Terrestrial and Geo-Space Environments: Science and Applications [2-7 May 2010, EGU General Assemby, Vienna, Austria]
- 2010 Space Weather Workshop [27-30 April 2010, Boulder, CO, USA]
- PSW1 Space Weather Modelling and Observations: from Research to Verified Operational Products [18-25 July 2010, 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
Bremen, Germany]
- Seventh European Space Weather Week [15-19 Nov. 2010, Brugge, Belgium]
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