by Hanna Sathiapal | Jun 15, 2016 | Public Engagement
What is all the buzz about RRI? My first try at finding out took place a year ago at a science communication conference in Garching. The situation is the following: Since the beginning of this century, science communication went through several stages: Public...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Jun 2, 2016 | Public Engagement
Everything in one place Looking for a platform for sharing FLARECAST and space weather outreach slides, I opened the SlideShare account slideshare.com/the-active-sun. All slides in one place, they are easy to retrieve, share and re-use. Sharing doesn’t imply...
by Hanna Sathiapal | May 26, 2016 | Public Engagement
Sometimes, the situation is just right for engaging in outreach activities while, at other times, it is almost impossible to do so. After the transit of Mercury event I asked FLARECAST members how they had organized their activities. This post is meant to be a...
by Hanna Sathiapal | May 12, 2016 | Public Engagement
Public activities Several FLARECAST partners contributed to public activities related to the transit of Mercury on May 9th. CNRS (Meudon), TCD (Dublin), PSUD (Orsay) and FHNW (Windisch) set up telescopes and screens for public observation and provided information on...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Apr 29, 2016 | Public Engagement
Recently, we did live space weather forecasting at our local natural history museum during a science fair. Scientific organizations presented many different kinds of activities, and people of all ages walked around, stopping where something attracted their interest....