Megan Argo's Publications

Here is a list of my publications to date, both academic (in journals, conference proceedings and circulars) and popular (astronomical society journals, online publications, magazine articles). And my thesis from 2006.

Current outreach projects and plans:

A re-make of an old audio magazine for the Society for Popular Astronomy: Details top secret - for now!
The Jodcast: Twice-monthly podcast about all-things astronomical.
Astronomy.FM: Online radio station broadcasting astronomy and general science programmes 24 hours a day.

Other (past) outreach projects I've led or been a major contributor to:

National Science Week 2010: Acquired funding and developed a radio astronomy outreach tour for Australian National Science Week August 2010.
UNAWE project for ISKAF2010: Australian partner in a UNAWE co-ordinated project to link primary schools in WA, South Africa and the Netherlands.
Murchison outreach road trips: Viewing nights at schools and remote communities around the Murchison/Gascoyne regions of WA.
Astrofest: Helped organise WA's single biggest IYA event - an astronomy festival at Curtin Uni which attracted more than 4000 members of the public.
Scouts WA: awarded a grant to purchase 2000 planispheres for WA Scouts to distribute during IYA2009. Visited several groups around the state and ran telescope nights for visiting troops at Curtin University.
Planetarium shows for local primary schools: with a planetarium dontated by Chesire County Council and funding from NATEC. Between us we did hundreds of shows and talked to thousands of kids.
Ask an Astronomer sessions at Jodrell: made it a regular feature of school holidays in the Visitor Centre and did the rota for a couple of years.
Star parties at Jodrell: started them, and helped the Visitor Centre get them up and running as a reasonably regular event, great public outreach for the Observatory and a huge success!
Researcher in Residence: run by the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University, placement at Bolton School Boys Division
Astronomy Go For It! for Guides: with the Institute of Physics, project received a PPARC grant. On the team which wrote and tested the package. Used it as the theme for a weekend camp with my Guides.
Schools project on meteor showers: an idea from the Centre for Science Education to link schools and scientists in the UK and Australia, subject to an EPSRC grant which was unsuccessful. Started the project anyway, as a local outreach project for the Lovell's 50th.

Last updated: Thursday, 10-Jul-2014 16:05:06 BST