JCMT public outreach activities

Since the last newsletter, the JCMT has featured in various JAC public outreach events. These included public talks in Hilo and at the Onizuka Visitor Information Station on Mauna Kea, and the JAC display at AstroDay 2003. Photographs from this event are available on our public outreach website.

Some recent JCMT-related press releases and activities:
• The SCUBA high-redshift quasar observations by Ian Robson, Robert Priddey, Kate Isaak, and Richard McMahon were featured in New Scientist following presentation at the UK National Astronomy Meeting 2003.
• A press release accompanied the publication in Nature of "Type II supernovae as a significant source of interstellar dust" by Loretta Dunne, Stephen Eales, Rob Ivison, Haley Morgan, and Mike Edmunds. This was well covered, with reports on the New Scientist and Scientific American websites, in the Christian Science Monitor (which also covered SCUBA high-redshift quasars and a related UKIRT result), the Guardian, and elsewhere. You can read the original press release on the outreach site.
• JCMT was also filmed for a German television programme, "Abenteuer Ferne",
• and was featured in an astronomy supplement published by the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

If you have some interesting JCMT (or UKIRT) work and would like to arrange a press release about it, please get in touch with me at "outreach@jach.hawaii.edu".

For more information on our outreach activities, please see our public outreach site.