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Events
Timeline
Canadian Space Agency Health Beyond Summit, 29 November – 01 December 2022, in-person and virtual (free).
DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine and the DLR Space Agency 7th Human Physiology Workshop, 03 December 2022, virtual workshop.
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry Resilience Symposium, 14-15 December 2022, virtual event (free).
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, 09-12 May 2023, Killarney, Ireland.
93rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 21-25 May 2023, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA.
Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) International ‘Spark of Life’ Conference, 01-03 June 2023, Brisbane, Australia.
AeroMed Australasia and FNA Conference, 04 – 06 September 2023, Adelaide, Australia.
Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Victorian Branch Conference, 09 September 2023, Melbourne, Australia.
IAC 2023, 02-06 October 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan
Details of Conferences
Aerospace Medicine Conferences
- AeroMed Australasia and FNA Conference 2023, 04 – 06 September 2023, Adelaide, Australia.
- ASAM Annual Conference, 2023 dates not yet announced. Normally held in Australia (last two years at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley, Australia).
- 1st International Conference of Aerospace Medicine – ICAM 2022. 2023 dates/location not yet announced.
- International Humans in Space Summit, 7-11 November 2022. Hybrid virtual/first two days in person in Sydney, Australia at UTS. YouTube channel for recordings. 2023 dates/location to be advised.
- DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine and the DLR Space Agency 7th Human Physiology Workshop, 03 December 2022, virtual workshop.
- 93rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 21-25 May 2023, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA.
- 94th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 5-9 May 2024, Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA.
- 95th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 1-6 June 2025, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, GA, USA.
Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Conferences
- For Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) conferences and CPD events, visit the WMS website. New events are being added regularly.
- Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Conference. 2023 dates not yet announced. Will most likely be held in October in Australia.
- World Extreme Medicine Conference. 2023 dates not yet announced. Will most likely be held in late November in Edinburgh, Scotland and online.
Earth Observation and Space4Health Conferences
- Watch this space!
Space Research and Education Conferences
- Australian Space Research Conference, 2023 dates/location not yet announced. Normally late September or early October. Will be held in Australia.
- IAC 2023, 02-06 October 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Pre-Hospital, Disaster and Resuscitation Medicine Conferences
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, 09-12 May 2023, Killarney, Ireland.
Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) International ‘Spark of Life’ Conference, 01-03 June 2023, Brisbane, Australia.
Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Victorian Branch Conference, 09 September 2023, Melbourne, Australia.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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~ A prince and attendants visiting a noble yogini at an Ashram. Murshidabad sub-style, c1765. (Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London) http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O97697/painting-unknown/ (accessed 01 August 2020).
~ Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe. Image Credit & Copyright: Carnegie Institution for Science. Image and explanation below downloaded from: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200426.html (accessed 31 July 2020).
Explanation: How big is our universe? This very question, among others, was debated by two leading astronomers 100 years ago today in what has become known as astronomy’s Great Debate. Many astronomers then believed that our Milky Way Galaxy was the entire universe. Many others, though, believed that our galaxy was just one of many. In the Great Debate, each argument was detailed, but no consensus was reached. The answer came over three years later with the detected variation of single spot in the Andromeda Nebula, as shown on the original glass discovery plate digitally reproduced here. When Edwin Hubble compared images, he noticed that this spot varied, and so wrote “VAR!” on the plate. The best explanation, Hubble knew, was that this spot was the image of a variable star that was very far away. So M31 was really the Andromeda Galaxy — a galaxy possibly similar to our own. The featured image may not be pretty, but the variable spot on it opened a door through which humanity gazed knowingly, for the first time, into a surprisingly vast cosmos.
~ Einstein quotation is available at: https://thequotes.in/the-important-thing-is-not-to-stop-questioning-curiosity-has-its-own-reason-for-existing-albert-einstein/.
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