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Help make Canada's IYA09 celebration a success by joining one of our working groups!

Education Liaison
Working Group members are:

  • John Percy
  • Heather Theijsmeijer
  • Julie Bolduc-Duval
  • Kim Hay
  • Additional members TBD
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program Manager) (ex officio)

Communications and Media — providing a bilingual (French, English) website www.astronomy2009.ca to serve as the central resource for Canadian IYA2009 activities and to encourage, inspire and support broader participation at the local level promoting IYA2009 through our website, the media and our member organizations.
Working Group members are:

  • Eric Chisholm (manager at the Centre of the Universe, the outreach organization of NRC’s Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria)
  • Véronique Petit (grad student at Université Laval – plans to implement a weekly blog highlighting astronomy grad student life)
  • Scott Young (Past President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada; Manager of the Planetarium and Science Gallery at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg
  • Robert Lamontagne (Faculty member at Université de Montréal, also serves as Press Officer of the Canadian Astronomical Society)
  • Heather Matheson (grad student at University of Manitoba)
  • Brian Ventrudo (Researcher at NRC’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre; trained as an astronomer; runs the One Minute Astronomer web site www.oneminuteastronomer.com )
  • Marc Jobin (astronomer at the Planétarium de Montréal; also the guru behind our Joomla! based web site)
  • Andy Woodsworth (retired NRC astronomer; also headed NRC’s Institute for Information Technology)
  • Kim Breland (IYA’s Program Director) (ex officio)

Fundraising — raising funds for the definition, development and management of national programs and activities for IYA2009.

Quebec team — leads French language liaison and implementation.
Working Group members are:

  • Pierre Lacombe (Planétarium de Montréal)
  • Laurent Drissen (Université Laval)
  • Rémi Lacasse (FAAQ)

Aboriginal Working Group — organizing First Nations and Inuit participation in IYA2009 Canadian activities, and liaison with IYA2009 international aboriginal programs.
Working Group members are:

  • Cheryl Bartlett (Cape Breton U.)
  • Lindsay Marshall (Cape Breton U.)
  • Prune Harris (CBU) (??)
  • Jim Hesser (NRC-HIA)
  • Andy Woodsworth (Galaxy Consulting)
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program manager) (ex officio)
100 Hours of Astronomy
  • TBD
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program Manager) (ex officio)

Visual Arts
  • Michael Bietenholz (Senior Researcher, York University; chair)
  • Jay Anderson (Editor, JRASC)
  • Ian Car Harris  (Artist, writer, Toronto)
  • John Dubinski (University of Toronto)
  • Jonathan Dursi (Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics)
  • Robin Kingsburgh (OCAD, York University)
  • Matt Kostka (Graduate student, University of Calgary)
  • Rémi Lacasse (FAAQ)
  • Reva Stone (Artist)
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program Manager) (ex officio)

Performing Arts
  • TBD
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program manager) (ex officio)

Galileo Legacy Lecture Programme: Discovering the Universe in the Twenty-First Century
  • TBD
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program manager) (ex officio)
Launching IYA2009 in Canada
  • TBD
  • Kim Breland (IYA2009 Program manager) (ex officio)
Astronomy Kit
  • Phil Langill (University of Calgary)
  • Julie Bolduc-Duval; Professeure de physique, Cégep de Thetford
  • Cathy Orlando; Science Outreach Coordinator, Laurentian University, Let's Talk Science Partnership Program Coordinator
  • Margaret Kennedy; Senior Science Outreach Advisor, Communications &
    Corporate Relations, NRC
  • Scott Young; Planetarium & Science Gallery, Manitoba Museum, RASC past
    President
  • Dave Lane; RASC President, St. Mary's University
  • Kim Hay; RASC, Kingston, Astronomy Education Committee Chair
  • Don Kelly; RASC, New Brunswick
  • Chris Weadick; RASC, New Brunswick, LPA Chair