Frozen Sun

[jneeskans]

Frozen Sun was a blog that SEDS started to celebrate the International Heliophysical and Polar Years (called IHY/IPY for short).

It'd be great to get some helping hand. All we want you to do is introduce us to a scientist/engineer working in the fields of Solar or Polar Studies from your country. Since its your country we believe you'll be better placed to contact the people involved.

Also, we're trying to get these people to write something about their daily life as scientist/engineer in the fields.

pradeep

[jneeskans]

Also feel free to report on IHY/IPY activities in your locality/state/country

pradeep

[kittell]

That's a good idea to make a post about this... in fact, that's probably how we should have started the project earlier this year :)

Regarding various events, the IHY website has the "official" events listed here: http://ihy2007.org/events/events.shtml. I'm fairly certain that Pradipta and SEDS-Nepal have also done some work; at least they posted about it in the Frozen Sun (http://blogs.seds.org/frozensun/entry/20070425) blog.

Pradeep, you should try to get in touch with Barbara (http://ihy2007.org/people/bjt.shtml) again about writing. She's a heck of a nice girl, and if she didn't respond, it's probably because she has a thousand things to do for IHY and work. Try it again, and let me know what you find.

[jneeskans]

You can even try and talk to your national co-ordinators about events in your country. A list of national co-ordinators is provided here - http://ihy2007.org/organization/ihy_national.shtml

[Pradipta]

You can even try and talk to your national co-ordinators about events in your country. A list of national co-ordinators is provided here - http://ihy2007.org/organization/ihy_national.shtml

Did you know? The elderly person who was with us during SEDSIC'07 is the national co-ordinator of IHY for Nepal. But he is not a scientist nor is he involved with any scientific project. He teaches "traditional" astronomy and mathematics at a sanskrit college and for IHY he is organizing small talk programs. I think it would have been better if the government directly participated in it or The IHY international committee could rather have contacted bigger governmental organizations like RONAST (http://www.nast.org.np/)/MOST (http://www.planeta-observatory.gov.np/)/TU. (http://www.tribhuvan-university.edu.np/) Then certainly there would have been bigger projects going on.

Btw, I just found out (while writing this) that there's going to be an International school on astronomy and astrophysics in kathmandu by a govt. organization (http://www.planeta-observatory.gov.np/isaa2008.php?) during March/April 2008. Now, that gives me some hope, eh!