Wikipedia:Year of Science/events

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January

• 1/2: Isaac Asimov's birthday
• 1/5: National Bird Day
• 1/7 - 1/10: Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting
• 1/8: Stephen Hawking's birthday
• 1/15: Wikipedia Day
• 1/16: Wikipedia Day NYC event
• 1/16: Dian Fossey's birthday
• 1/17: Kid Inventors' Day
• 1/21: Sophia Jex-Blake's birthday
• 1/25: Theodosius Dobzhansky's birthday
• 1/29: Linda B. Buck's birthday

February

• 2/1 - 2/29: Black History Month
  • Howard Edit-a-thon: Friday, Feb 26th 10am-4pm, Howard University Founders Library
• 2/2: World Wetlands Day
• 2/11:
  National Inventors' Day
• 2/11: Thomas Edison's birthday
• 2/12: International Darwin Day
• 2/12 - 2/15: Great Backyard Bird Count
• 2/13 - 14: American Association for the Advancement of Science conference edit-a-thon, Washington, DC
• 2/14: Agnes Pockels's birthday
• 2/18: Astronomy edit-a-thon in Cambridge, MA
• 2/21 - 2/27: National Engineers Week
• 2/27: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
• 2/25:
  Maria Margarethe Kirch
  's birthday
• 2/29 Rare Disease Day Edit-a-thon
  • DC Meetup 6-8pm, MLK Public Library 901 G St. NW. Please join remotely as well!
  • St Louis Event 6-8pm, Creative Experience room at Central St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 63103. Please join remotely as well!

March

• 3/9: Total solar eclipse (Indonesia and Pacific Ocean)
• 3/11: University of Arizona Agriculture & Natural Resources Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, University Services Building, Room 310
• 3/11: Cornell Ag & Life Sciences: 1:00pm to 5:00pm, Mann Library, Room 160 Cornell University Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
• 3/20: Computers in Chemistry Edit-a-thon: 1-5pm EDT, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington D.C., 20036, USA
• 3/28 - 4/3: #MuseumWeek
• 3/29: Duke University Women of Science and Philosophy meetup, Durham, NC
• 3/31: University of North Carolina Assessment in Psychology meetup, Chapel Hill, NC

April

• 4/4: ASBMB edit-a-thon, San Diego
• 4/15: AAV in 2016 (BSGCT Annual Conference;#BSGCT2016)
• 4/18: University of North Carolina Women in Science edit-a-thon, Chapel Hill, NC

May

• 5/9: Transit of Mercury
• 5/26: 23rd Annual APS-STP Teaching Institute: Implementing the APS Wikipedia Initiative in General Education Coursework, 3:45pm to 4:45pm, Chicago, IL
• 5/31: Science Outreach Working to Inspire the Next Generation: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue (at 21st Street), 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10010

June

• 6/15: American Astronomical Society edit-a-thon, San Diego
• 6/19: American Society for Microbiology edit-a-thon, Boston

July

• 7/4: Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter

August

• 8/23: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research edit-a-thon, Kuala Lumpur
• 8/24: American Chemical Society Notable Chemists and Chemistry edit-a-thon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

September

• 9/21: Science Literacy Week edit-a-thon, "Local Women in Science', Vancouver, Canada

November

• 11/14: Edit-a-thon vol.2: Women in science, Prague, Czech Republic

December

• 12/15: Edit-a-thon, AGU 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California

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