Astronomy Blog

The Cosmic Diary

One of the key projects during the imminent International Year of Astronomy is the Cosmic Diary. Perhaps inspired by Quantum Diaries during the World Year of Physics in 2005, Cosmic Diary plans to give an insight into the lives of over 50 astronomers, educators and students from all over the world. Not only will these appear in blog form throughout the year but extracts will be used to make both a book and a documentary during 2009. The blogs will officially begin on 1st January 2009. Here are the diarists so far:

• Aude Alapini (24), School of Physics - University of Exeter, UK
• Arbab Ibrahim Arbab (44), University of Khartoum, Sudan
• Salim Ansari (49), ESA
• Joana Ascenso (28), Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Gerard van Belle (40), ESO
• Annalisa Calamida, ESO
• Ana Inés Gomez De Castro (46), Fac. de CC. Matematicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Brother Guy Consolmagno (55), Specola Vaticana, Castel Gandolfo, Vatican City State
• Athena Coustenis (46), Paris-Meudon Observatory, France
• Jean Creighton (40), Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
• Håkon Dahle (37), Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway
• Thomas Dall (37), ESO
• Akihiro Doi (34), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Michael Dumke (40), ESO
• K.Yavuz Eksi (36), Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey
• Tetsu Fuse (38), Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
• Diego Garcia (31), ALMA/ESO
• Alan Hale (50), Earthrise Institute, USA
• John Hearnshaw (61), Mount John Observatory, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Saskia Hekker (30), Royal Observatory of Belgium
• Assaf Horesh (32), Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• Gaitee Hussain (34), ESO
• Khursand Ibadinov (64), Institute of Astrophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Tajik State National University
• Yoshimi Kitamura (50), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Heidi Korhonen (36), ESO
• Kelly Korreck (32), Harvard, USA
• Detlef Koschny (46), ESA
• Arunas Kucinskas (40), Vilnius University Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Lithuania
• Claire Alexandra Lee (25), CERN
• Mariya Lyubenova (27), ESO
• Amy Mainzer (35), JPL, USA
• Franck Marchis (35), SETI Institute, USA
• Alberto Krone Martins (25), Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
• Emanuel Sungging Mumpuni (35), Indonesian Institute of Aeronautics and Space
• David Barrado Navascues (39), Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental (LAEFF-INTA), European Space Astronomy Centrea
• Nadine Neumayer (32), ESO
• Nando Patat (42), ESO
• Tijana Prodanovic (29), University of Novi Sad, Department of Physics, Novi Sad, Serbia
• Giuseppe Racca (51), ESA
• Suzanna Randall (29), ESO
• Thomas Rivinius (41), ESO
• Avivah Yamani Riyadi (27), Langitselatan, Indonesia
• Seiichi Sakamoto (43), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Linda Schmidtobreick (42), ESO
• Rogel Sese, Philippines
• Toshifumi Shimizu (41), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Gayandhi de Silva (27), ESO
• David Smith (45), Space Sciences Laboratory at U. C. Berkeley, USA
• Sotira Trifourki (31), The Greater Manchester STEM Centre, University of Salford, UK
• Stefan Uttenthaler (30), Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, The Netherlands Belgium (thanks to Sarah for the correction)
• Giuli Verbanac, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Tom Wilson (65), ALMA/ESO
• Ryan Wyatt (39), California Academy of Sciences, USA