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In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, ESO has taken a number of measures to ensure the safety of staff and visitors, including gradually suspending science observations and cancelling public visits and activities. For more information, please check the ‘COVID-19 coronavirus measures at ESO’ announcement.
En respuesta al brote de COVID-19, ESO ha tomado una serie de medidas para garantizar la seguridad del personal y sus visitantes, incluida la suspensión gradual de las observaciones científicas y la cancelación de visitas y actividades públicas. Para obtener más información, por favor consulte el anuncio “Medidas adoptadas por ESO ante el coronavirus COVID-19”.
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About the ESO Science Outreach Network
The ESO education and Public Outreach Department has established a network of persons in the ESO Member states and other countries who serve as local contacts for the media in connection with ESO developments, Press Releases, etc. At the same time, they may help to provide useful contacts between the media and the scientists in their area. The ESON members, or their representatives, are typically full-time science communicators who know the national players (media, academia etc.) and regularly interact with them, are able to find a national angle, have a strong interest in promoting ESO and provide regular inputs and ideas for how to best reach the target groups in their area. More precisely, their mission is: "To act as ESO's media and outreach representative in the member states and potential member states with the general aim of promoting ESO's mission and demonstrating the many inspirational aspects of astronomy".
Contact in the U.K.
Hayley Vice
STFC International & Research Programme Media Officer
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
UK
E-mail: eson-uk@eso.org Tel: +44 (0) 7395 831466
Hayley is the main press and media lead for ESO in the United Kingdom, with a degree in communications and years of PR experience. Hayley liaises with UK university press teams to promote astronomy research findings and the many design and construction milestones the UK is contributing to on the various projects currently on-going in Chile. Hayley works within the media team at the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and promotes the work of ESO through their media contacts, social media channels and public engagement activities. STFC is part of UK Research and Innovation – the UK body which works in partnership with universities, research organizations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish.
Becky Parker-Ellis
International and Research Programme Media Manager
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
UK
E-mail: eson-uk@eso.org
Jake Gilmore
Co-Head of Communications
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
UK
E-mail: eson-uk@eso.org
