{"id":184,"date":"2022-02-09T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/?p=184"},"modified":"2022-02-16T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:13:31","slug":"2008-g-bruce-blair-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/09\/2008-g-bruce-blair-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 G. Bruce Blair Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"marni-berendsen\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Marni Berendsen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2008-Marni-Berendsen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185\" width=\"293\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2008-Marni-Berendsen.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2008-Marni-Berendsen-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2008-Marni-Berendsen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Marni Berendsen, employed with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), is the lead project manager and developer of the NASA Night Sky Network (http:\/\/nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov\/), a nationwide coalition of over 200 amateur astronomy clubs dedicated to astronomy outreach. The Night Sky Network is an ASP and NASA-funded program to create and disseminate informal outreach materials and training specifically tailored for use by amateur astronomers.<br>An amateur astronomer for many years, Marni is a Project ASTRO partner and a member of the Mount Diablo Astronomical Society in Concord, California, participating regularly in the club&#8217;s outreach programs and conducting club member workshops.<br>She received her Masters in Astronomy through the University of Western Sydney. Her master&#8217;s thesis involved research into outreach and knowledge of astronomy concepts among amateur astronomers, publishing the primary findings in the journal, Astronomy Education Review. She contributed to and co-edited the book, Science Educators Under the Stars: Amateur Astronomers Engaged in Education and Public Outreach, published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2007.<br>Her interest in astronomy was sparked as a young Girl Scout camping out in a high Sierra meadow while Scout leaders told stories of the Greek gods illustrated by the tapestry of constellations over their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marni Berendsen Marni Berendsen, employed with the Astronomical Society of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}