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| This newsletter is brought to you by the Astrobiology Program office in conjunction with the Astrobiology Science Communication Guild. The Guild supports the astrobiology community at any stage of their careers as evolving science communicators by bringing members SciComm opportunities and serving ideals in DEIA. If any of the below opportunities interest you, consider joining the Guild to get updates on regular SciComm opportunities with NASA and external partners. Contact svetlana.shkolyar@nasa.gov to join. |
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| Deadline Extended: Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe Workshop |
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Deadline: Extended to Friday, December 1st, 2023
NASA’s Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe workshop will be held virtually over two weeks in Feb. 2024. It will bring together the astrobiology and science communication communities to exchange perspectives about the potential discovery of life beyond Earth. Through a series of presentations, conversations, and activities, the workshop will explore mutually-beneficial and socially responsible paths towards communicating the discovery of extraterrestrial life and creating a lasting community of shared interest.
Virtual Workshop Session Details Week 1: February 5, 7, 9, 2024 Week 2: February 12, 14, 16, 2024 12:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern time each day
Learn more & apply today: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/astrobiology-workshop-communicating-discoveries-in-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe/ |
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| Submit an Abstract on Astrobiology Education Worldwide at AbSciCon 2024 |
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Deadline: Wednesday, January 10, 2023
A session on Astrobiology Education and Communication is being organized at AbSciCon 2024 by Julia Bordsky, Graham Lu, Sanjoy Som, and Celia Blanco. This session aims to unite educators, communicators, and researchers worldwide to share their experiences and insights into astrobiology education and communication. Abstracts are sought on aspects of astrobiology education, including curriculum design, teaching strategies, resources, and community engagement efforts for people of diverse ages and backgrounds. This session will address the challenges of conveying complex astrobiology concepts and fostering essential habits of mind while highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of astrobiology.
Learn more & apply today: https://agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon24/prelim.cgi/Session/219064 |
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| Send Your Name to Jupiter with Europa Clipper |
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NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign invites people around the world to add their names to a poem written by the U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. The poem connects the two water worlds: Earth, yearning to reach out and understand what makes a world habitable, and Europa, waiting with its secrets yet to be explored. The campaign is a collaboration, uniting art and science, by NASA, the U.S. Poet Laureate, and the Library of Congress.
The poem is engraved on NASA’s robotic Europa Clipper spacecraft, along with the names of participants, that will be etched onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft. Together, the poem and participant’s names will travel on Europa Clipper to the Jupiter system. Europa Clipper is set to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in October 2024.
Send your name and get additional details here: https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/ |
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| Astrobiology SciComm Guild’s December Meeting: “Exoplanet Citizen Science with NASA’s Exoplanet Watch Project” |
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The Astrobiologoy’s SciComm Guild’s next monthly meeting will be on December 8th to feature NASA Science Activation’s Exoplanet Watch project.
Rob Zellem (NASA JPL) will discuss how you and anyone in your community can participate in Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project to observe transiting exoplanets with small ground-based telescopes to update their orbital ephemerides to ensure the efficient use of large telescopes. The project features both amateur astronomers, who have their own telescopes and cameras, and the general public, who can request data from our archive, using tools accessible through a web browser, allowing anyone to participate. Exoplanet Watch has over 2000 users globally with datasets on 384 targets and has saved the James Webb Space Telescope hours of observing time (equivalent to $400k).
To get time and meeting connection details, join the Guild by contacting svetlana.shkolyar@nasa.gov. |
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