[NMScience] [Fwd: LPI Earth & Space Science June News]

Fri Jun 5 10:14:18 MDT 2009

*Greetings, Earth and Space Science Education Community!*

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*/We've changed the format of our news, to provide more timely 
information./*

The *LPI Earth and Space Science News *is now available both on our 
website, and also through a regularly updated RSS feed to which you can 
subscribe. 

This newsletter briefly highlights Earth and space science education 
opportunities, events, resources, and news; we add new items to it 
frequently and send out this email once a month to inform you of the 
latest additions to the site.

*Included In This Issue at** 
**http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/resources/news/** *

    * Link to Moon mission launches and upcoming astronomy education
      conferences in *Calendar*
    * Learn about teacher workshops, online summer astronomy and Earth
      courses, and more in *Workshops and Courses*
    * Find out about conferences, educator overnights, lectures and
      family events in *Events*
    * Discover grant opportunities, educator challenges, and more in
      *Events/Opportunities*
    * Connect to new activities and online resources in* Resources*
    * Read about water on Mars, the role asteroid impacts played in life
      on Earth, and more in *Mission** News and Science*

Other news we wanted to share:

*_Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference_*

Who: K-12 Educators, Informal Educators Earth and Space Science 
Education Specialists

What: ASP Annual Conference - /Science Education and Public Outreach: 
 Forging a Path to the Future/

When: 12-16 September

Where: Millbrae, California

More Info: http://www.astrosociety.org/events/meeting.html

/Deadline for submitting proposals for sessions and posters: _15 June_/

Dear Colleague:

Greetings from the staff of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific!  We 
wanted to provide an update on our plans and activities for the 2009 
meeting of the ASP scheduled from September 12-16 at the Westin SFO 
Hotel in sunny Millbrae, California:

1)  The conference theme is "Science Education and Public Outreach: 
 Forging a Path to the Future," with presentations and posters to be 
organized under four theme strands:

.Building on the Momentum of the International Year of Astronomy.

.Connecting the Sciences in the Year of Science.

.Refining our Practice.

.Bridging to the Future. 

The theme strands provide opportunities to share our best practices and 
experiences, to reach out and connect to other science disciplines for 
some "cross-pollination" and making new connections, and to look forward 
at how we can meet the challenges of the education and public outreach 
future landscape together. Come join the discussion, prepared to share 
and learn!

2)  The Early Bird Registration Deadline and Abstract Submission 
Deadline have been extended to June 15, 2009, to accommodate the 
Memorial Day Holiday, the busyness of school terms ending, and to 
provide additional time for us to extend an invitation to additional 
science education and outreach communities--providing additional time 
for you to plan your presentation and poster proposals and to take 
advantage of the discounted Early Bird rate. 

3)  Registration for the weekend workshops is open; check out the 
descriptions for workshops for formal and informal educators and amateur 
astronomers.  Thanks to the Spitzer Space Center, a limited number of 
scholarships of up to $300 are available to eligible participants; go to 
the workshops and scholarships pages on the web site for details, and 
the registration information page to register.  Please feel free to 
share the information with formal and informal educators and amateurs 
that you know who may be interested in attending.

4)  In addition to workshops, the Astronomical Association of Northern 
California (AANC) will be meeting on Saturday, September 12 as part of 
the pre-meeting weekend activities; the day-long meeting promises to be 
a great place to network with amateur astronomers and to experience some 
great talks, demonstrations and exhibits.  Go to the workshops page for 
information and the registration information page to register for this 
event, and check back for more details as the meeting schedule develops.

5)  Sunday afternoon, September 13, is reserved for a SETI Speaker 
Series featuring scientists and researchers from the SETI Institute in 
Mountain View, California. Speakers include Drs. Frank Drake, Seth 
Shostak, Margaret Race, and John Jenkins. Hear current and 
mind-expanding discussions on the Drake Equation at 50, what those alien 
critters might look like and why it's useful to speculate about them, 
initial results and data from the Kepler Mission to see if we're finding 
their home worlds yet, and what on Earth we do if we start to actually 
find them.  Registered conference participants, Sunday workshop 
attendees, and ASP and SETI members are all admitted at no additional 
charge, so come hear the latest on our search for Others.

6)  For our plenary sessions, we're planning for a series of provocative 
discussions during the meeting proper relating to the conference theme 
strands and designed to get the cerebral juices flowing and discussion 
ignited. The discussions will be centered on the following questions:

     .IYA: Can We Keep the Party Going?

               .Year of Science: Will Science "Speciation" Endanger 
Science Learning or Enhance it?

                          .Refining our Practice: Can We Really Make an 
Impact?

                          .The Future is Here: Can EPO Navigate the 
Digital Age?

Come join in the discussions, and watch for word of the speakers who 
will lead them.

7)  We will also be hosting at the conference venue the small traveling 
 From the Earth to The Universe (FETTU) exhibit of astronomical images. 
 FETTU is a program of the International Year of Astronomy, and this 
version of the exhibit has been developed and traveled by the NASA Ames 
Nasa Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) and a consortium of Bay Area 
organizations including Sonoma State University, the SETI Institute, the 
Center for Science Education, the ASP, and Lockheed Martin with support 
from such missions as SOFIA, SWIFT, Kepler, the Fermi Gamma Ray Space 
Telescope, and others.  The images are beautiful and we're very pleased 
to have it on display for the conferees.    

All this and more--including information on reserving rooms at the 
conference hotel--can be found by going to the meeting site at: 
 http://www.mailermailer.com/rd?http://www.astrosociety.org/events/meeting.html.

Please join us this September in the San Francisco Bay Area, during the 
International Year of Astronomy, the International Year of Science, and 
the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Astronomical Society of the 
Pacific, as we look forward and consider how, working together, we can 
advance a future of science literacy, enlightenment and achievement!  

Best Wishes,

The ASP Staff

If you have events or resources for us to share, or would like to give 
feedback, please contact me at _shupla at lpi.usra.edu__ _

Best wishes,

Christine Shupla

Education Specialist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/

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