Award-winning Astronomer and Author Sten Odenwald Speaks at UNCW
4/12/2004 12:00:00 AM
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By Rebecca D’Amico, PR Intern
Wilmington, N.C. – Sten Odenwald, an award-winning astronomer with Raytheon ITSS at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will speak at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 22 in DeLoach Hall, Room 212 and at 2 p.m. Friday, April 23 in DeLoach Hall, Room 212. Both lectures are sponsored by the American Astronomical Society and supported by the Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureships Endowment Fund. These events are free and open to the public.
Thursday’s lecture is “New Discoveries in 21st Century Astronomy” and will include a discussion on the progress and future of journeying into the cosmos. On Friday, Odenwald will discuss what has been learned from the 23rd sunspot cycle in “The Past as Prologue – What to Expect from the Next Sunspot Cycle.”
Odenwald will host 86 third graders from Ogden Elementary School on a fieldtrip to Barnes and Noble where he will discuss basic astronomy for children and NASA’s Mars exploration. He will also be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, April 23 at Barnes and Noble, 322 South College Road, to sign books and answer questions from the public.
Odenwald is the education and public outreach manager for the NASA IMAGE satellite program and has written four books on astronomy: The Astronomy Café, the 23rd Cycle, Patterns in the Void and Back to the Astronomy Café. His media contributions have included The Washington Post and Sky and Telescope and National Public Radio. Odenwald has worked with teachers around the country to develop classroom materials based on his work at NASA. His latest project is collaboration with teachers from Alaska, Maryland and Maine to study the Northern Lights and the upcoming transit of Venus.
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Note to the media: For more information on the lecture contact Moorad Alexanian at 910/962-3463 or at alexanian@uncw.edu. For more information on the Barnes and Noble fieldtrip and signing contact Deborah Goodman at 910/395-4825.
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