Other Workshops, Conferences and Events

NSTA conferences offer the latest in science content, teaching strategy, and research, all presented by science educators who want to enhance and expand their professional growth. They also offer featured speakers, educational field trips, short courses, exciting social events, and the largest exhibition of science materials around.

NSTA generally hosts four conferences each year - a national conference in the spring and three regional conferences in the fall.

2009 Area Conferences
Minneapolis: Oct. 29–31
Ft. Lauderdale: Nov. 12–14
Phoenix: Dec. 3–5

Complete listing of future conferences

Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2010 (CAP2010)

Cape Town, South Africa
15 to 19 March, 2010

Following the previous conferences in this series, CAP2010 aims to address the modern challenges in astronomy communication through a global perspective. Major themes of CAP2010 will be the outcome and legacy of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) as well as techniques for how to make public astronomical knowledge global and accessible to everyone across national, language, political, social and cultural borders and to those with impairment limitations.

Important Dates

Abstract Deadline: 1 November 2009
Registration Deadline: 15 November 2009

Rationale

This conference builds on the astounding success of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). It will bring together producers of astronomical information (research scientists), public information officers (connected with large observatories and space missions), and mediators (science reporters and writers, staff members from museums, planetariums). CAP2010 will focus on the outcome of the IYA2009 activities, their evaluation and plans for future work. Furthermore, as this meeting will be held in South Africa, another major theme will be 'stimulating astronomy communication in the emerging world'.

Some of the key topics of CAP2010 are:

• Reports from IYA2009 National Nodes, Organisational Nodes, Cornerstone Projects and Special Projects with an emphasis on the IYA2009 legacy
• Challenges and successes: Case studies from around the world
• Crowdsourcing/Citizen science projects
• Communicating in the social networking/Web 2.0 mediascape: twitter/youtube/facebook/vodcasting
• Audiovisual & multimedia communication incl. tools and techniques
• New ways to exploit and visualize astronomical data
• Social impact of astronomy communication
• Alternative ways of communicating astronomy
• EPO Clearinghouses: Portal to the Universe, COMpadre, etc.
• Evaluation of IYA2009 and lessons for the future
• Communicating across national, language, political, social and cultural borders

'Astronomy communication 101' courses

One of the specific goals of CAP2010 is to create an IYA2009 legacy by actively promoting astronomy communication in the Developing World and this will feature throughout the meeting. Linked to, but not directly part of CAP2010, will be an "Astronomy communication 101" school directed at participants from the Developing World. Selected conference participants will be invited speakers. This school will take place over 3 days from 10th to 12th March 2010, just before the main conference, at the South African Astronomical Observatory.

For more details on the courses and the conference in general, please visit: http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2010/index.html

The registration form is available on: http://www.communicatingastronomy.org/cap2010/registration.html

38th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events "COSPAR 2010"

18 - 25 July 2010
Bremen, Germany

Contact:
COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France
Tel: +33 1 44 76 75 10
Fax: +33 1 44 76 74 37
cospar@cosparhq.cnes.fr
http://www.cospar2010.org or http://www.cospar-assembly.org

Scientific Program Chair:
Prof. Tilman Spohn, Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Abstract Deadline:
19 February 2010

Topics:
109 meetings covering the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC) and Panels (full list available at http://www.cospar-assembly.org):
- SC A: The Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate
- SC B: The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System
- SC C: The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres
- SC D: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres
- SC E: Research in Astrophysics from Space
- SC F: Life Sciences as Related to Space
- SC G: Materials Sciences in Space
- SC H: Fundamental Physics in Space
- Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)
- Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
- Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
- Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM)
- Panel on Space Weather (PSW)
- Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)
- Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)
- Panel on Education (PE)
- Panel on Exploration (PEX)
- Special events: Interdisciplinary lectures, space agency round table, etc.

Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research, a fully refereed journal with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields.

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