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Hello, hello again! This is your weekly update on all things going on at CosmoQuest. Motivations Survey The scope of CosmoQuest is not just astronomical research. We love to learn how you learn and interact with the science as well. You may be prompted to take a brief survey about your attitudes towards citizen science, CosmoQuest, and astronomy. This survey is absolutely optional, but the results will help us to understand what makes citizen science projects tick and how we [...]
Greetings, all. We’re re-starting our weekly email newsletter (and blog post) to keep you updated on all things CosmoQuest. We’ve had a LOT happen in the last few months, so here is one place where you can catch up on upcoming community events, the state of our citizen science projects, and educational opportunities. Where We Are; Where We’ve Been CosmoQuest launched almost a year and a half ago with Moon Mappers. You have since helped us mark over a million craters [...]
One of our primary missions at CosmoQuest is to share science with as many people as possible. This means travelling to where people are. We’ve been weighing our reduced budget as well as our core mission and decided on our travel schedule for the rest of the year. We’ve had to cut down how many people we send to each event, but not as much the number of events, which is lovely. In some cases, this means we’ll be looking [...]
Well hello, CosmoQuesters. I am finally just about done with pictures and video from my trip to see ALMA in Chile a few weeks ago. I still have some podcast content to cut together and post on our brand new 365 Days of Astronomy website, but I thought I’d share all the goodness so far. As mentioned in a previous post, I was invited to join a group of journalists hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) to visit [...]
Greetings, all, from San Pedro, Chile! Well, actually, I’m drafting this post on the plane to Calama from Santiago, to be followed by a bus ride to San Pedro. I cut my trip to SXSW in Texas with my CosmoQuest colleagues short to answer an invitation for a trip that I have always wanted to go on. I am going to see, firsthand, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA, at the high site of 16,500 ft (5000 m) in [...]
On March 22, 2013 we found out that many NASA EPO programs will be suspended as a direct result of US budgetary sequestration. The full ramifications are still being learned, but we are proactively working to raise money to make sure that CosmoQuest can continue to support its staff and its programs. As we are able, we will also use any monies we raise to contract amazing people whose jobs are negatively impacted by budgetary cuts.
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Total Raised: $3,600 (as of 5/13//2013)
