Prototype

If you found this site -- great. Let me explain what it is so that you come back when it kicks off in a few weeks.

There are two international events occurring in 2007: the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. I like space science, though it is not my strength (I'm an engineer by practice). And here on seds.org, we just set up these wonderful blogs last year; you can start your own if you'd like. I wanted to mash all of this together and set up a blog where others could learn about the role that space technology plays in the studies of IHY and IPY.

Experts will be invited to come and post about their activities or about interesting phenomena every week, and students will be encouraged to visit and ask questions and make comments. Each expert will be asked to monitor the blog for two weeks after their post to answer questions.

This project will start in March with a solar scientist from NASA, then with a representiative from the IPY Youth Steering Committee in Nigeria (and president of the SEDS affiliate in Nigeria, the African Association of Physics Students), Olumuyiwa Oke. Then the next week will be a solar post, then a polar post, then solar, polar, solar, polar, etc. If you would like to help -- as a professional willing to post to students or as a student willing to contact professionals to post -- please email international@seds.org. See you in a few weeks.

Posted by kittell [General] ( March 05, 2007 11:42 AM ) Permalink