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Mr Paul Curnow

  • Astronomy Lecturer School of Natural and Built Environments
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Paul Curnow (B.ED) is the Vice President of the Astronomical Society of South Australia and a former council member of the Field Geology Club of South Australia. He has been a lecturer at the Adelaide Planetarium since 1992 and is a 3-time winner of the ASSA Editor’s award (2000; 2010; and 2013). In 2002, he served as a southern sky specialist for visiting U.S. and British astronomers who were in Australia for the total solar eclipse. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Australian Aboriginal night sky knowledge; and in 2004, he worked in conjunction with the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center Planetarium in Ohio, on the creation of a show that features Indigenous Australian stories of the night sky. In addition,... Read more

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Paul Curnow (B.ED) is the Vice President of the Astronomical Society of South Australia and a former council member of the Field Geology Club of South Australia. He has been a lecturer at the Adelaide Planetarium since 1992 and is a 3-time winner of the ASSA Editor’s award (2000; 2010; and 2013). In 2002, he served as a southern sky specialist for visiting U.S. and British astronomers who were in Australia for the total solar eclipse. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Australian Aboriginal night sky knowledge; and in 2004, he worked in conjunction with the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center Planetarium in Ohio, on the creation of a show that features Indigenous Australian stories of the night sky. In addition, Paul runs a number of popular courses for the general public that focus on the constellations, planetary astronomy, historical astronomy and ethnoastronomy, which primarily deals with how the night sky is seen by non-western cultures. He recently appeared as the keynote speaker at the inaugural 2010 Lake Tyrrell Star Party in Sea Lake, Victoria and recently returned from New Zealand after being a special guest speaker at the Carter Observatory in Wellington. Since 2012 Paul has taken the role of lecturer for the Astronomy and Universe course (EDUC 2066) for the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Paul appears regularly in the media and has authored over 50 articles on astronomy.
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Aboriginal Astronomy,Ethnoastronomy
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Observational astronomy,Historical astronomy,Ethnoastronomy,Aboriginal astronomy,Solar system astronomy,Constellations
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  • EDUC 2030 Science Education (2019)
  • EDUC 2066 Science and Sustainability 3: Astronomy and the Universe (2019)
  • EDUC 2066 Science and Sustainability 3: Astronomy and the Universe (2018)
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