1999 Earthwatch Schedule

14 June Monday - arrival day :-)

  • 08:00 Drive to Albuquerque Airport: Galen, Don, Donna - van now here June 10
  • 11:21 - 13:20 arrivals at ABQ airport
  • 16:00 Old Town Albuquerque Dinner
  • 17:00 Drive to Los Alamos via Jemez Mtn Road
  • 20:00 Canyon School - Room 140 / Get-Acquainted Session

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15 June Tuesday

  • 08:30 - 12:30 GET Training in White Rock
  • 14:00 Bradbury Science Museum - Tour and LANL orientation
  • 18:30 Bradbury Science Museum - Public talk on Fenton Hill Observatory, our outreach efforts, the Earthwatch program, and astronomical transients
  • 21:00 Canyon School - Telescopes and CCDs

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16 June Wednesday

  • 13:30 Meet at Canyon School for Geological Tour of the Jemez Mtns - Carol Hogsett 
  • 18:30 Picnic at Fenton Hill
  • 19:00 Fenton Hill Public Evening bus departs Museum
  • 20:00 Public Tour of Milagro, Fenton Hill -- Rained Out!!

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17 June Thursday

  • 14:00 Canyon School Rm 140 Cy Hoffman / Milagro and Cosmic Ray Physics
  • 15:00 Canyon School Rm 140 Julie McEnery / TeV Astronomy, AGNs, etc.
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  • 18:30 - 20:00 Bradbury Science Museum - Geoff Reeves on Aurorae

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18 June Friday

  • 14:00 Canyon School Rm 170 Galen Gisler / Galaxies and Cosmology
  • 15:00 Canyon School Rm 170 Jeff Bloch / Interstellar Medium
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  • 18:30 Canyon School Rm 170 Jim Wren & Rick Balsano / ROTSE operations and results
  • 20:00 Observing Session at ROTSE

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19 June Saturday

  • 14:00 Canyon School Rm 140 Don Casperson / Intro to Radio Astronomy
  • 21:00 Pajarito Astronomers Dark Night / White Rock Overlook Park

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20 June Sunday

  • 14:00 Gislers' home in White Rock - Barbecue and Music - ITS GONNA BE A BLAST!!

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21 June Monday

  • 08:30 Diane Roussel-Dupre / Astro-archaeology tour of Tsankawi
  • 14:00 Unitarian Church Ed Fenimore / Gamma Ray Bursts
  • 15:00 Unitarian Church Konstantin Borozdin / X-Ray Transients
  • free night

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22 June Tuesday

  • 9:30 leave for VLA tour
  • 13:30 VLA Tour - led by Dave Finley 
  • 18:00 Tour at Langmuir Lightning Research Lab 
  • 19:00 Observing Session at Magdalena Ridge & camp out - Don't forget your tent! :)

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23 June Wednesday

  • 08:00 pack up and leave Magdalena Ridge
  • 13:30 LANSCE tour with the TOPS teachers
  • 15:00 free time
  • 18:30 Bradbury Science Museum / Ed Fenimore / The Nature of Scientific Discovery
  • 21:00 Observing Session at Fenton Hill

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24 June Thursday

  • 14:00 Plan the Presentation for tomorrow
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  • 18:30 Bradbury Science Museum / Bill Feldman / Lunar Prospector
  • 20:00 Dinner with Dee Robbins at De Colores
  • 22:00 Work on Presentation

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25 June Friday

  • 10:57 ALEXIS satellite pass at Satellite Operations Center, SM-40
  • 11:15 SM-40, Rm E-130 Jake Parks / ARROW - Astronomical Robotics Remote Operation On the Web
  • 13:00 SM-40, Moon Room Todd Haines / Neutrino Astronomy
  • 14:00 Last-minute presentation planning
  • 15:00 SM-40, Moon Room Presentation to astrophysical transients working group at LANL 
  • 19:00 Santa Fe Community College - Planetarium -

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26 June Saturday

  • 10:00 Bandelier Hike?
  • 15:30 Bradbury Science Museum / Bruce Masse / Black Suns and Dark Times: The Impact of Solar Eclipses in the Ancient Southwest
  • 18:30 Picnic at Fenton Lake
  • 20:00 Last Observing Session at Fenton Hill

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27 June Sunday

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  • 14:00 Visits to museums in Santa Fe
  • 18:00 Shakespeare in Santa Fe - "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (first regular performance)

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28 June Monday - departure day :-(

  • 08:00 Drive to Albuquerque Airport - farewell breakfast on the way -
  • 12:06 - 14:20 departures from Albuquerque Airport

     

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