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Events
Timeline
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, 09-12 May 2023, Killarney, Ireland.
2023 Humans to Mars Summit (H2M), 16-18 May, 2023, National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C., USA.
93rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 21-25 May 2023, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Louisiana, USA.
Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) International ‘Spark of Life’ Conference, 01-03 June 2023, Brisbane, Australia.
Emergency Management Conference, 04-05 July 2023, Pullman Melbourne, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia.
International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC), 31 July 31 – 03 August 2023, Hyatt Regency Seattle, Washington, USA.
AeroMed Australasia and FNA Conference, 04 – 06 September 2023, Adelaide, Australia.
ASAM (Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine) Conference, 14 – 17 September 2023, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Australia.
Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Conference, 13-15 October, 2023, Katoomba, NSW, Australia.
Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Victorian Branch Conference, 09 September 2023, Melbourne, Australia.
IAC 2023, 02-06 October 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan
ASCEND, 23-25 October 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
World Extreme Medicine Conference, 11-13 November 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland and online.
Details of Conferences
Aerospace Medicine Conferences
- 93rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association, 21-25 May 2023, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA.
- AeroMed Australasia and FNA Conference 2023, 04 – 06 September 2023, Adelaide, Australia.
- ASAM (Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine) Conference, 14 – 17 September 2023, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Australia.
- ASCEND, 23-25 October 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- 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
- Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Conference, 13-15 October, 2023, Katoomba, NSW, Australia.
- World Extreme Medicine Conference, 11-13 November 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland and online.
- For Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) conferences and CPD events, visit the WMS website. New events are being added regularly.
Earth Observation and Space4Health Conferences
- Watch this space!
Space Research and Education Conferences
- 2023 Humans to Mars Summit (H2M), 16-18 May, 2023, National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C., USA.
- International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC), 31 July 31 – 03 August 2023, Hyatt Regency Seattle, Washington, USA.
- 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.
- 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.
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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