<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Everyone, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope you’ll had a productive ASM last week. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Following the plenary presentation by Dr. Karl and Peter Tuthill, they have kindly made the resources for their talk available for anyone to use on climate related talks. </div><div class="">These can be found under the SWG tab here: <a href="https://asa.astronomy.org.au/about-2/chapters/" class="">https://asa.astronomy.org.au/about-2/chapters/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As we discussed during the Town Hall we are also looking for new members to join the WG: Please sign up here if you would like to help shape the sustainability initiatives of the ASA <a href="https://forms.office.com/r/PzZ5wPCP96" class="">https://forms.office.com/r/PzZ5wPCP96</a> <br class=""><div>Our next meeting will be on <b class="">Friday 6th August at 2pm AEST.</b></div><div><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Jul 2021, at 9:50 am, Themiya Nanayakkara <<a href="mailto:wnanayakkara@swin.edu.au" class="">wnanayakkara@swin.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-330a0990-7fff-4631-c650-dc284017a895" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear ASA, </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We hope you are looking forward to the ASM next week with its exciting lineup of talks and other activities!!</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The ASA Sustainability Working Group (SWG) was commissioned by the ASA council last year and we have been leading some initiatives behind the scenes during the last few months. As a part of this, the ASA will be launching its “<b class=""><i class="">Sustainability Statement”</i></b> this year during the ASM. The SWG will also be holding a Town Hall Meeting during the ASM on </span><a href="https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/asa2021/schedule/#tab453" class=""></a><a href="https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/asa2021/schedule/#tab453" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tuesday the 13th of July at 12.30-13.30 AEST (lunch/coffee break</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, immediately after the Plenary session: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Astronomers – Your planet needs you! </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">by </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dr Karl & Peter Tuthill.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The goal of the Town Hall is to reach out to the wider ASA community to discuss measures we should take as a wider astro community to address the climate crisis. Specifically, we would like to:</span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=""><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Improve astro community understanding of the climate crisis and how/why they can get involved.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Engage the wider community on action driven measures. </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Recruit new members to the working group to shape the measures of the ASA. </span></div></li></ul><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The program for the event can be found below. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We look forward to seeing you at the town hall. If you do have any questions please feel free to reach out in the meantime via <i class="">reply to this email.</i> </span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class=""><u class="">The Sustainability Working group.</u></b></span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Aaron Glanville, Adam Stevens, Alexis Heitzmannm, Andy Casey, Cathryn Trott, Chris Riseley, Christian Wolf, Clancy James, Colin Jacobs, David Mcconnell, Gemma Anderson, Jake Clark, James Murray, Martin Stringer, Michael Brown, Michael Cowley, Michael Murphy, Mita Brierley, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Rachael Webster, Stefania Jess, Vanessa Moss, Peter Tuthill, Themiya Nanayakkara.</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><u class="">Agenda 12.30-13.30 pm AEST 13/07/2021</u></span></div><br class=""><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=""><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Chair: Acknowledgement of Country, outline structure of meeting (2 min)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Speaker(s): Introductory talk (10 min): Natasha Hurley-Walker and Adam Stevens</span></div></li><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=""><li dir="ltr" aria-level="2" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Q&A on talk (10 min)</span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Split into hubs/zoom breakout rooms (1 min)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In each hub/ online breakout room: moderated brainstorming toward the explicit goals (20 min divided amongst the goals)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Back to centralised discussion: each moderator reports the major points raised from each hub (7 min, i.e. 1 min per hub/zoom breakout room)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Chair: wrap-up (5 min)</span></div></li><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=""><li dir="ltr" aria-level="2" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Action items arising from the discussion</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="2" style="list-style-type: circle; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Date and time for follow-up meeting (1st Friday in August 14:00 AEST)</span></div></li></ul></ul></span><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">ASA mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ASA@mailman.sydney.edu.au" class="">ASA@mailman.sydney.edu.au</a><br class="">Change membership status or contact information via ASA's Edit Membership page<br class="">https://asa.wildapricot.org/Edit-Details<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>