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Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future:
The 120th Anniversary Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

September 12 - 16, 2009
Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel, Millbrae, California
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Registration is now open and abstracts are being accepted!  You can submit
abstracts for 90-minute sessions, 10-minute oral papers, or poster papers on
a wide range of topics in space-science and earth-science education and
outreach.  A proceedings volume will be published as part of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference series.

The meeting symposium begins on Sunday evening, September 13, with the
annual members' meeting and the opening reception. Meeting sessions begin on
Monday, September 14, with the annual awards banquet held on Tuesday
evening, September 15. The meeting will conclude the early evening of
Wednesday, September 16.

The meeting will be preceded by hands-on workshops for K-14 and informal
science educators scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13,
together with a Sunday afternoon series of nontechnical talks on the search
for life beyond Earth presented by leading scientists from the SETI Institute.

Go to: http://www.astrosociety.org/events/meeting.html
to find information and details on hotel reservations, meeting registration,
exhibiting, submitting poster and presentation abstracts, and submitting
proceedings write-ups. Be sure to sign up to receive more information and
meeting alerts, and check back frequently as new information is added.

Thanks to the generosity of the Spitzer Science Center, a limited number of
$300 stipends will be available to K-12 educators who need additional
support to attend the weekend and/or the meeting.  Specific instructions
will be posted soon on the above web site.

Please join us in September in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, during
the International Year of Astronomy, the International Year of Science, and
the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific, as we look forward and consider how, working together, we can
advance a future of science literacy.

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