EPSC 2020 Planetary Science Wiki Edit-a-thon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Piccialli ◽  
Camelia Boban ◽  
Anita Heward ◽  
Karolien Lefever ◽  
Ann Carine Vandaele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Small Subgroup ◽  
Global North ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Diversity Committee

<p><strong>Background</strong></p><p>Wikipedia is an open source, web-based encyclopedia, allowing anonymous and registered users to create, edit and improve articles. A survey in 2018 showed that as many as 90% of Wikipedia's editors were male and as many as 81% of contributors were from the Global North [1].  </p><p>In addition, there are fewer contributions about women, especially in STEM fields, and they are usually less developed [2]. In October 2014, only 15.53% of English Wikipedia's biographies were about women [3]. The WikiProject <strong>Women in Red</strong> was founded in July 2015 with the objective to address this gender bias in Wikipedia content. They succeeded in increasing the above-mentioned percentage to <strong>18.71%</strong> as of 11 January 2021 [2].</p><p>Today, Wikipedia is within the 20 most popular websites [4] and every month it attracts more than 1 billion unique visitors [5]. Wikipedia therefore has a huge potential to change publics perception of who is doing science and what a scientist ‘looks’ like.</p><p><strong>(Women) planetary scientists on Wikipedia?</strong></p><p>In June 2020, there were only 189 planetary scientist biographies on the English Wikipedia, including 48 biographies of female planetary scientists (25%). This percentage is in agreement with the percentage of women in the International Astronomical Union from all ESA’s Member States (24%) [6], but planetary scientists are clearly underrepresented on Wikipedia. Many of them either do not have a Wikipedia biography yet, or if they do, they are often misclassified under the category of “astronomers” or “astrophysicists”.</p><p><strong>A Planetary Sciences</strong><strong> Edit-a-thon</strong>    </p><p>The Diversity Committee of the Europlanet Society aims to highlight diversity within the planetary science community. Therefore, they organised, in collaboration with Women in Red and WikiDonne, the first <strong>Planetary Science Wiki Edit-a-thon</strong> during the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2020 [7]. An Edit-a-thon (‘edit marathon’) is an organized event where editors from an online community (such as Wikipedia in this case) write, translate and improve articles on a specific topic [2]. Thirty persons received a basic editing training, resulting in 1 new article and 5 translated ones. A small subgroup still meets every month to continue the project.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report</p><p>[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red  </p><p>[3] Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Mounia Lalmas, Filippo Menczer, "First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia", arXiv, 9 February 2015, p. 3.</p><p>[4] "Wikipedia.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". www.alexa.com. Retrieved October 1, 2019.</p><p>[5] https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects</p><p>[6] Piccialli A., et al., Participation of women scientists in ESA Solar System missions: a historical trend, Adv. Geosci., 53, 169–182, https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-53-169-2020, 2020.</p><p>[7] https://www.europlanet-society.org/epsc-2020-planetary-science-wiki-edit-a-thon/    </p>

scholarly journals Participation of women scientists in ESA solar system missions: a historical trend

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Arianna Piccialli ◽  
Julie A. Rathbun ◽  
Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd ◽  
Anni Määttänen ◽  
Anna Milillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Women Scientists ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Female Scientists

Abstract. We analyzed the participation of women scientists in 10 ESA (European Space Agency) Solar System missions over a period of 38 years. Being part of a spacecraft mission science team can be considered a proxy to measure the “success” in the field. Participation of women in PI (Principal Investigators) teams varied between 4 % and 25 %, with several missions with no women as PI. The percentage of female scientists as Co-I (Co-Investigators) is always less than 16 %. This number is lower than the percentage of women in the International Astronomical Union from all ESA's Member State (24 %), which can give us an indication of the percentage of women in the field. We encountered many difficulties to gather the data for this study. The list of team members were not always easily accessible. An additional difficulty was to determine the percentage of female scientists in planetary science in Europe. We would like to encourage the planetary community as a whole, as well as international organizations, universities and societies to continuously gather statistics over many years. Detailed statistics are only the first step to closely monitor the development of achievement gaps and initiate measures to tackle potential causes of inequity, leading to gender inequalities in STEM careers.

scholarly journals Building Community and Collaboration Applications for MMOGs

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Adam ◽  
Christos Bouras ◽  
Vaggelis Kapoulas ◽  
Andreas Papazois
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Massively Multiplayer Online Games ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Network Game ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Game Developers ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
P2p Technology

Supporting collaborative activities among the online players are one of the major challenges in the area of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG), since they increase the richness of gaming experience and create more engaged communities. To this direction, our study has focused on the provision of services supporting and enhancing the players' in-game community and collaboration activities. We have designed and implemented innovative tools exploiting a game adaptation technology, namely, the In-game Graphical Insertion Technology (IGIT), which permits the addition of web-based applications without any need from the game developers to modify the game at all, nor from the game players to change their game installation. The developed tools follow a design adapted to the MMOG players' needs and are based on the latest advances on Web 2.0 technology. Their provision is performed through the core element of our system, which is the so-called Community Network Game (CNG) Server. One of the important features provided by the implemented system's underlying framework is the utilization of enhanced Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology for the distribution of user-generated live video streams. In this paper, we focus on the architecture of the CNG Server as well as on the design and implementation of the online community and collaboration tools.

Gaia spectroscopic view of the asteroid main belt and beyond

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Delbo ◽  
Laurent Galluccio ◽  
Francesca De Angeli ◽  
Paolo Tanga ◽  
Alberto Cellino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Reflectance Spectra ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Belt ◽  
Compositional Gradient ◽  
Solar System Object ◽  
Science Community

<div class="">Asteroids reflectance spectra in the visible light will be one of the novel products of the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3). These spectra are produced from Gaia observations obtained by means of the blue and red photometers — the so-called BP and RP, respectively. We will review the strategy adopted to produce asteroid reflectance spectra from BP-RP data, focusing on the choice of spectro-photometric calibrations computed taking into account solar system object astrometry and suitable lists of solar-analog stars.</div> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">Our preliminary investigation shows that we will be able to obtain reflectance spectra for asteroids as small as some km in the main belt, by exploiting the fact that each object has been observed multiple times by Gaia. We will show the capability of Gaia to probe the detailed compositional gradient of the main belt down to small sizes and to study correlations between spectral classes and other asteroid physical parameters, such as albedo and size.</div> <div class=""> </div> <div class="">Concerning the brightest asteroids, we expect to have substantial signal at wavelengths shorter than 450 nm, allowing Gaia to examine this region of the spectrum that has been poorly investigated by ground-based asteroid spectroscopic surveys. This region is characterised by the presence of a reflectance downturn that is diagnostic for the composition of classes of primitive asteroids, for instance those including the parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites. These asteroids may have played an important role for the delivery of prebiotic compounds to Earth during the early phases of solar system' s history and, as such, are at the center of attention of the planetary science community. </div>

Women in Astronomy in Belgium

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Piccialli ◽  
Karolien Lefever ◽  
Ann Carine Vandaele ◽  
Clio Gielen
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Science ◽  
International Organization ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
True Number ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Career Structure ◽  
Space Sciences ◽  
Gender Specific

<p>We are attempting to gather all information available to study the question of the representation of women in astronomy in Belgium, which is not a straightforward task.</p> <p>In an early study, [1] analysed gender-specific statistics on the Belgian physicists. One of the difficulties they found was that Belgium keeps different statistics for the French-speaking and Flemish universities, and the career structure is different depending on the Communities.</p> <p>As preliminary analysis, we investigated the percentage of women in the International Astronomical Union (IAU) registered in the database for Belgium [2]. The IAU is an international organization with participation from 68 countries that covers the main areas of astronomy, including planetary science. In 2021, 32 out of 144 Belgian members were female (22%). It is important to notice that not all astronomers in Belgium, and in particular not the younger generation where the percentage of female researchers is higher, are member of IAU. Therefore we expect these values to underestimate the true number of women in the field. In view of the fact that it is the same at the level of the funding bodies and, by construction, at the universities, Earth and Space Sciences will be considered together. We will present preliminary results of our study.</p> <p><strong>References:</strong></p> <p>[1] Petra Rudolf, Vice‐President, Christine Iserentant, Muriel Vander Donckt, Nathalie Balcaen, Peggy Fredrickx, Karen Janssens, and Griet Janssen, "Women in Physics in Belgium: Still a Long Way From Achieving Gender Equality", AIP Conference Proceedings 628, 131-132 (2002) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1505297</p> <p>[2] https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/distribution/</p>

Advancing Women in Peace And Security

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Antonia Dimou
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
International Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Peace And Security

Overcoming gender bias has been increasingly important to counter ongoing threats to national and international security. The article focus on the institutional framework that exists for the participation of women in peace and security at the United Nations and NATO levels. It expands to the success story of women’s inclusiveness in the Jordanian armed forces, as well as to the challenges of health security, and concludes with a set of concrete policy recommendations.

How to Utilize an Online Community of Practice (CoP) to Enhance Innovation in Teaching and Learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 532-544
Author(s):  
Jacob Prisk ◽  
Kerry Lee
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Classroom Learning ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Online Community Of Practice

Involving the community in supporting students’ learning is something most educators would consider high in importance. Communities of practice have proven they assist authentic learning to take place. Developing an online community of practice adds a layer of complexity to classroom learning, as it is more than simply converting activities to Web-based interactions. This chapter provides background to what communities of practice are and how they function. It outlines the considerations needed to design a successful and sustainable community of practice. Utilization, considerations for implementation and future trends will also be elaborated upon.

Web-Based Virtual Models for the Earth Science Community

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Grunwald ◽  
Phillip Barak ◽  
Dan Rooney
Keyword(s):  
Earth Science ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Virtual Models ◽  
Science Community

scholarly journals Asteroid Evolution: Role of Geotechnical Properties

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (S318) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Science ◽  
Geotechnical Properties ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Numerical Tools ◽  
Rubble Pile

AbstractThis paper presents a brief review and latest results of the work that has been carried out by the Planetary Science community in order to understand the role of the geotechnical properties of granular asteroids (commonly known as “rubble-pile” asteroids) in their formation, evolution and possible disruption. As such, we will touch in aspects of the theoretical and numerical tools that have been used with this objective and how the obtained results compare to the observed asteroids.

Data Visualization and Analysis with NASA's Mercury Trek Online Portal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Day ◽  
Emily Law ◽  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Dynamic Surface ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Initial Release ◽  
Data Products

<p><strong>Introduction:</strong>  In its investigations of the planet Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER returned an immense amount of data detailing the dynamic surface of our solar system’s innermost planet. As the European and Japanese space agencies prepared for the launch of BepiColombo, the next mission to explore Mercury, BepiColombo’s project science team asked NASA to produce a new portal within the Solar System Treks suite (https://trek.nasa.gov) featuring data returned by MESSENGER from Mercury. This new portal would be used both for mission planning and for public outreach by the BepiColombo mission. While initially populated with Messenger data, the portal is also being designed to facilitate visualization, analysis, and dissemination of data from BepiColombo after it commences science operations in orbit around Mercury. The initial release of the Mercury Trek in 2019 shortly followed the launch of BepiColombo on its journey to Mercury.</p> <p><strong>The Mercury Trek Portal:</strong>  The initial release of Mercury Trek in July 2019 featured data products from the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument that operated aboard NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission while in orbit around Mercury from 2011 to 2015. These products include the MDIS Global Mosaic, MDIS BDR Global Mosaic, MDIS Color Global Mosaic, MDIS MD3 Color Global Mosaic, MDIS Enhanced Color Global Mosaic, MDIS LOI (low-incidence angle) Global Mosaic, MDIS Global Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and MDIS Color Hillshade Global map derived from the DEM. An updated release in June 2020 featured enhanced search capabilities, an updated user interface, the option to have user interface control labels in either English or Japanese, and the addition of numerous new data products. These include high resolution MDIS mosaics, DEMs, and slope data for selected regions, and gravimetric maps including crustal thickness, gravity anomaly, gravity degree strength, and gravity disturbance. Also included are 1:5M geologic maps for the Beethoven, Discovery, Kuiper, Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, Tolstoj, and Victoria regions.</p> <p>Mercury Trek’s data visualization capabilities make it easy to stack and blend different data layers in order to optimize depictions of a wide variety of surface features. Data products can be viewed in equatorial, or polar projected views, or on an interactive 3D globe. The Trek interface allows the user to maneuver a first-person visualization of “flying” across the surface of the Mercury.</p> <p>Analysis tools make it easy to measure distances (either straight-line or along a user-defined path) and to create elevation profiles for surface features. Users can draw user-defined bounding boxes across Vesta’s terrain to generate STL or OBJ files for 3D printing. They can also draw a freehand path anywhere across the surface and have Vesta Trek return a QR code that can be scanned into a smartphone (Android or iOS). The smartphone can then be placed into a pair of inexpensive cardboard-compatible goggles. The user will then be able to fly their defined path in virtual reality.</p> <p>We intend to continue working with the BepiColombo mission and the greater planetary science community to enhance the new Mercury Trek portal with additional data products, and solicit suggestions from the community.</p> <p><strong>One Component in an Integrated Suite:</strong>  Mercury Trek is one of a growing number of portals in NASA’s Solar System Treks Project, available at https://trek.nasa.gov. NASA's Solar System Trek online portals for lunar and planetary mapping and modeling provide web-based suites of interactive data visualization and analysis tools to enable mission planners, planetary scientists, students, and the general public to access mapped data products from past and current missions for Mercury, the Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, Titan, seven of Saturn’s smaller icy moons (Dione, Enceladus, Iapetus Mimas, Phoebe, Rhea, and Tethys), Ryugu, and Bennu. As web-based toolsets, the portals do not require users to purchase or install any software beyond current web browsers. These portals are being used for site selection and analysis by NASA and a number of its international partners, supporting upcoming missions.</p> <p><strong>Acknowledgements: </strong>The authors would like to thank the Planetary Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the Science Engagement and Partnerships Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and the Advanced Explorations Systems Program of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate for their support and guidance in the development of the Solar System Treks.</p>

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