EPO part of IHY vision:
EPO part of IHY vision IHY tripartite primary objectives include:
History : Continuing the tradition of international research and advancing the legacy on the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year
Outreach : Demonstrating the Beauty, Relevance and Significance of Space and Earth Science to the World
IHY aims have EPO as central:
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Preserve the history and legacy of the IGY on its 50th Anniversary.
Communicate unique IHY results to the scientific community and the general public.
Celebrating IGY : “IGY Gold”:
Celebrating IGY : “IGY Gold” Preserving the history and memory of IGY 1957.
identifying and recognizing planners of and participants in the first IGY
preserving memoirs, articles, photographs, and all items of historical significance for the IGY,
making these items available to historians, researchers, etc.,
providing a contact service for these activities,
spreading awareness of the history of geophysics, and
planning special events and "reunions.“ IGY Gold Club
Must have been a participant in the first IGY
Must contribute an item of historical significance to the initiative (letter, recollection, article, photograph, etc.)
Must be willing to have that item made publicly available.
Public Outreach – Overview:
Public Outreach – Overview Objective
Get people to know what the ‘Heliosphere’ is?
Story
Legacy of IGY, Energy flows, …
Audience
Children, Amateurs, Joe Bloggs, …
Medium
Exhibits, Lectures, Experiments, Art, …
Events
Meteor streams, Total Lunar Eclipse, Solar storms, …
Audience Story:
Audience Story
Children
At school
At home
Amateurs
Radio amateurs
Society for Popular Astronomy
British Astronomical Association
Federation of Astronomical Societies
Celebrities
Patrick Moore
Adam Hart-Davis
Brian May
Astronomers
Teach them basic plasma physics! Legacy of IGY
IGY Gold
Underpinning of things we do now
Ways of working we take for granted
Analogue precursor of the internet and Grid
Collaboration during the Cold War
History of Heliophysics in the UK
Carrington, Early RGO discoveries
Energy flows
Human stories
Maturing of collaboration
Bringing multiple missions together
Experiments
STEREO, SOLAR-B, THEMIS, Cluster, SoHO
VEX (mag, plasma), MEX (plasma)
Ground-based instruments
Conspiracy theories
Exhibits:
Exhibits
Public science – ‘Megalab’:
Public science – ‘Megalab’
Art:
Art
Funding:
Funding PPARC large awards
£15K - £100K
This year, deadline 5th November for initial proposal
Anything ready to go?
TV programme on the Sun (Chris Davis), interest from Channel 4 International but apparently a BBC documentary on the Sun is in production
PPARC small awards
<£15K
Spring 2006
PPARC Science Centre Awards
< £30K
Spring 2006
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