Science, Culture, and Celebration in the Shadow of 2024 Totality
Abstract
The 2017 solar eclipse across North America demonstrated that solar eclipses can capture the public's attention on a massive scale. It also showed that, with planning, eclipses can be opportunities for broad collaboration across public institutions and community organizations. This year's entering high school and college students will graduate in the year of another eclipse, which will also be the last total solar eclipse in North America for over two decades. For the 2024 eclipse, now is the time to start planning.
Cleveland is a major city in the path of totality for the 2024 eclipse, and is also home to Case Western Reserve University. We report our preliminary plans for the 2024 eclipse year and a broad series of events bringing together performance arts, culture, science, and education. In doing so, we ask a series of questions relating science to culture. As we present our current ideas, we argue that these questions and the discussions they inspire are important to all projects planning for the 2024 eclipse.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMSY0140003M
- Keywords:
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- 0815 Informal education;
- EDUCATION;
- 2437 Ionospheric dynamics;
- IONOSPHERE;
- 6934 Ionospheric propagation;
- RADIO SCIENCE;
- 6964 Radio wave propagation;
- RADIO SCIENCE