Links:

The ATNF outreach site Wildflowers in the Sky An introduction to pulsars ATNF teacher workshops

The ATNF pulsar catalogue ATNF media releases The Parkes radio telescope The Brownsville ARCC project

Outreach

Outreach is an important area of my work. I am a founder member of the PULSE@PKS project which aims to allow high-school students around the World to carry out observations using the Parkes telescope that are usable by the scientific community. This will be developed in the longer term to provide an educational outreach component to the Australian SKA pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. Highlights include

• Allowing Texan high-school students to carry out the first overseas remote observing with the Parkes radio telescope.
• Developing the PULSE@PKS project.
• Lecturing to a group of "virtual people" on SecondLife as part of the ABC series of virtual talks
• Working with schools in Western Australia as part of the WildFlowers in the Sky project. This included describing gravitational waves at the Meekatharra School of the Air.
• Talked on 3RRR radio station in Melbourne (10/02/2008)

Media releases

Students to tweet telescope takeover (12 Aug 2009)
Students use "The Dish" to 'listen' to pulsars (18 Dec 2007)
General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test (13 Sep 2006)
Parkes telescope find new kind of star (15 Feb 2006)

Public talks

• 22/10/08: Pulsars and gravitational waves, Adult Learning evening class, Sydney University
• 16/09/08: Filmed in Canberra for the CSIRO optiportal
• 09/09/08: PULSE@Parkes talk at ATNF/ICT morning tea
• 04/09/08: La Trobe University, Wodonga: Pulsars and gravitational waves
• 04/09/08: Talk to high-school students, Victory College, Wodonga
• 03/09/08: Talk to Albury-Wodonga astronomical society, Charles Sturt University, Albury
• 03/09/08: Talk to junior-school students, Victory College, Wodonga
• 21/07/08: Lecture at the NSW cosmology distinction course, Sydney
• 04/04/08: Astrophysics teacher workshop, Parkes
• 10/02/08: Talk on 3RRR radio station in Melbourne
• 18/12/07: Opening of PULSE@Parkes, Canberra
• 10/09/07: Talk on the virtual world, Second Life
• 24/06/07: Talk at NSW cosmology distinction course, Sydney