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IOTA 2017 Annual Meeting Awards Presentations

IOTA 2017 Annual Meeting Awards Presentations. Special Achievement Award Homer F. DaBoll Award David E. Laird Award. The Importance of Awards. Background DaBoll Award. To recognize significant contributions to occultation science and to the work of IOTA

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IOTA 2017 Annual Meeting Awards Presentations

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  1. IOTA 2017 Annual MeetingAwards Presentations Special Achievement Award Homer F. DaBoll Award David E. Laird Award

  2. The Importance of Awards

  3. Background DaBoll Award To recognize significant contributions tooccultation science and to the work of IOTA • Name honors Homer F. DaBoll (1920 – 1990) • Organizer of grazing occultation expeditions in Midwest USA beginning in late 1960s • Suggested the name “International Occultation Timing Association” • Founding officer of IOTA 1975 (secretary/treasurer) • First editor of Occultation Newsletter, from 1974 through 1990

  4. Previous AwardeesHomer F. DaBoll Award 2007 Dave Herald, Australia 2008 Edwin Goffin, Belgium 2009 Steve Preston, USA 2010 Hristo Pavlov, Australia 2011 Scotty Degenhardt, USA 2012 Kazuhisa Miyashita, Japan 2013 Graham L. Blow, New Zealand 2014 Brian Loader, New Zealand 2015 Gerhard Dangl, Austria 2016 Derek Breit, USA

  5. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to Regional Coordinators for Asteroidal Occultation Reports John Talbot Steve Kerr Eric Frappa Tsutomu Hayamizu Brad Timerson

  6. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to John Talbot

  7. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to Steve Kerr

  8. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to Eric Frappa

  9. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to Tsutomu Hayamizu

  10. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to Tsutomu Hayamizu I've never imagined that the big award would be given to me. Perhaps this will be the heaviest honour for my life. The reason of this prize is Leadership in Regional Coordination of IOTA  Asteroidal Observations and Continuing Contributions of Occultation Measurements. Then I would like to thank Japanese occultation observers for this award. And, I say congratulations to Brad, Eric, John and Steve, who win the prize together. The observation of occultations stands out as a field where amateurs contribute to astronomy. Especially Japan is a small country, but it is a good region for the observation of occultations, because, Japan has long area from north to south and have many excellent observers. Japan is also located at an important position because the USA, Europe and Japan can cooperate with each other to cover the whole sky of the northern hemisphere. Also in the future, Japan should continue to play an important part. I would like to make an effort to play that part, too. I wish I could receive this award with Takashi Setoguchi, who died young two years ago, because he provided predictions of many important occultation events for us and he taught me how to analyze occultation observations. I would like to respect him for his achievement and share the thanks of winning the prize.

  11. The 2017 IOTA Homer F. DaBoll Award is presented to Brad Timerson

  12. Background, Laird Award To recognize those who, more than 15 years ago, made significant contributions to occultation science and to the work of IOTA • Name honors David E. Laird (1931 – 1968) • Physics teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio • Organizer of grazing occultation expeditions in Midwest USA beginning in early 1960s • Published articles “Have Telescope: Will Travel” Oct 1966 • Confirmed existence of a giant impact basin on the Lunar far side • Suffered from Leukemia and died in 1968 at age 37

  13. Previous AwardeesDavid E. Laird Award • 2013 Harold R. Povenmire, USA • 2014 Gordon E. Taylor, UK • 2015 Robert “Bob” Sandy, USA • 2016 Jean Meeus, Belgium

  14. The 2017 IOTA David E. Laird Award Is Presented To: Walt Morgan

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