Robb Walker: One Dark Sky
July 4th, 2012 | ALCon News | No Comment
OneDarkSky is proud to participate in ALCon2012 by providing public outreach services. The evening of July 4, the Marriott Lincolnshire will host fireworks and a star party in honor of ...
Jan van Muijlwijk
July 2nd, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | 1 Comment
Born: June 21, 1958
Education: Technical college, chemical engineering
Profession: Environmental sound specialist City of Veendam (Netherlands)
Hobbies/passions:
- Music. Singing in classical choirs (tenor)
- Bats, mainly because of their amazing ultrasound
- Amateur radio
I ...
Gerry Kocken
July 1st, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | No Comment
Gerry Kocken is an architect in DePere, Wisconsin. He has been active in the Neville Public Museum Astronomical Society in Green Bay, Wisconsin since 1999. He has been on the ...
Sue Rose
July 1st, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | 1 Comment
Sue Rose, "Teaching Astronomy Through the Computer Manipulation of Digital Astrophotographs: Thinking Outside the Box"
Everyone has seen the beautiful photos released by NASA. Let’s take those and use them to ...
Mark Webb
June 28th, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | No Comment
Mark Webb is the Manager of Adler’s Planetarium Theaters as well as a Sky
Show Producer at the museum. In the early 1980’s he investigated creating art
with modern technologies such as ...
Sue Bennett
June 28th, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | No Comment
Sue Bennett has had the pleasure of enjoying and sharing many starry
evenings over the past twenty three years with national park visitors in
places such as Everglades, Great Smokies and Mount ...
Don Lubowich
June 27th, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | No Comment
Astronomy Outreach for Unique and Non-traditional Audiences
Dr. Donald Lubowich, Coordinator of Astronomy Outreach, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
In this session I discuss different approaches to bring science directly to the public -to ...
Marni Berendsen
June 27th, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | No Comment
Marni Berendsen, employed with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) since 2002, is the lead project manager and developer of the NASA Night Sky Network (http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/), a nationwide coalition ...
David Tosteson
June 27th, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | No Comment
"The Deepest Sky: Visual Astronomy in the 21st Century"
Biography:
I use large aperture reflectors to observe challenging deep-sky objects at the limit of visibility. Brown dwarves, gravitational arcs, high-redshift quasars and ...
Robert Holmes
June 19th, 2012 | ALCon Speakers | 1 Comment
Robert Holmes is a faculty member at Eastern Illinois University and the director of the Astronomical Research Institute located near Charleston, Illinois where he works for NASA in Near Earth ...
