European Planetary Science Congress 2017
17–22 September 2017
Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija | Riga | Latvia

Oral programme OEP2

OEP2

Education, capacity building and training with Planetary Research
Convener: Eleni Chatzichristou  | Co-Conveners: Rosa Doran , Pauls Irbins , Lina Canas 
Oral programme
 / Thu, 21 Sep, 09:00–12:25  / Room Mars
Poster programme
 / Attendance Thu, 21 Sep, 17:45–19:15  / Poster area

Thursday, 21 September 2017
Room Mars
Chairperson: E. Chatzichristou, P. Irbins
Public Engagement through social media, open platforms, field trips

09:00–09:15
EPSC2017-662
Public Engagement in Planetary Science through Europlanet Social Media
T. Heenatigala
09:15–09:30
EPSC2017-27
OpenPlanetaryMap: Building the first Open Planetary Mapping and Social platform for researchers, educators, storytellers, and the general public
N. Manaud, A. Nass, M. Lewando, S. van Gasselt, A.P. Rossi, T. Hare, J. Carter, and H. Hargitai
09:30–09:45
EPSC2017-98
Public Outreach with NASA Lunar and Planetary Mapping and Modeling
E. Law and B. Day
09:45–10:00
EPSC2017-914
Cutting in front with ESTCube-2: How building a satellite makes an attractive employee
K. Bussov, E. Oro, and H. Ehrpais
10:00–10:15
EPSC2017-905
Inclusive Planetary Science Outreach and Education: a Pioneering European Experience
A. Galvez, F. Ballesteros, A. García-Frank, S. Gil, A. Gil-Ortiz, M. Gómez-Heras, J. Martínez-Frías, L. M. Parro, V. Parro, E. Pérez-Montero(, V. Raposo, and J. A. Vaquerizo
10:15–10:25
EPSC2017-142
Archaeoastronomy as a Tool for Understanding Celestial Phenomena
S. Koufos and E. Chatzichristou
10:25–10:40
EPSC2017-1024
NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA HQ
D. Daou, L. Johnson, K.E. Fast, R. Landis, V.P. Friedensen, and M. Kelley
Coffee break
Planetary science in education and school activities

11:00–11:15
EPSC2017-280
Planets in a Room
l. Giacomini, F. Aloisi, and I. De Angelis
11:15–11:30
EPSC2017-344
Space Detectives: using space to showcase science
S. Tyszka, R. Doran, and J. Saraiva
11:30–11:45
EPSC2017-459
Stories of Tomorrow: schoolkids and the conquest of Mars
J. Saraiva
11:45–12:00
EPSC2017-31
A School Competition on the computation of the solar parallax using observations from the Mercury Transit of 9 May 2016 – Results and Discussion
J. J. Zender, R. Barnes, H. J. Zuidervaart, J.J. Benkhoff, S. Martinez, M.G. Breitfellner, and M. Almeida
12:00–12:15
EPSC2017-102
Transits in our Solar System for educational activities: Mercury Transit 2016 and Total Solar Eclipse 2017
M. Pérez-Ayúcar and M. Breitfelner
12:15–12:25
EPSC2017-281
Lobachevsky Year at Kazan University: Center of Science, Education, Intellectual-Cognitive Tourism "Kazan – GeoNa – 2020+" and “Kazan-Moon-2020+” projects
A. Gusev and N. Trudkova