Anyone who has been following the eclipse content leading up to the April 8 total solar eclipse will no doubt be familiar with the name Jamie Carter.After all, he is our “go-to” eclipse expert and a major contributor to Space.com, having written over 35 articles in total eclipse Only Space.com’s works from the past few months.
We’re pleased to announce that Carter’s hard work for us and other news outlets like Forbes has paid off when Carter was awarded the 2023 Heliophysics Division (SPD) Mass Media Award.
April 11, SPD Mass Media Awards Committee Announcement of awards In 2023, a Journalist Award and a Scientist Award were awarded.
Carter won the Journalist Award for “the tremendous amount of work he has done to prepare the public for the 2024 solar eclipse.” according to the announcement. The Scientist Award was awarded to Sarah Gibson, Mark Misch, Amy Davenport, Damon Burke, and Daniel Zietlow in recognition of their “my corona“(Song and Video)
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We caught up with Jamie to talk about what it was like winning the award and asked him about his plans for future eclipse content.
Were you surprised when you found out you won?
Absolutely! When I look back at the articles I wrote about total solar eclipses, I’m almost embarrassed because I can’t even begin to count them. I think last year it was about 400, but probably more. By mid-2023, Eclipse went from something I wrote occasionally to a full-time job. By March of this year, I had interviewed about 40 scientists and event organizers and was devoting about 14 hours a day to writing about the U.S. eclipse. It was tiring but fun to see the results.
Millions of people in the United States and around the world read my article and wanted to see the eclipse. I’ve received several messages from people telling me that my article made them decide to go see their first total solar eclipse, which makes me happy.
Why do solar eclipses make you so passionate about writing so much about them?
I think of a total solar eclipse as a hand you can hold and guide you on great adventures around the world.
By pursuing something in the sky rather than on the ground, you can go to places you never thought possible and mostly avoid tourist traps. You see the world as nature and the universe are, one moon’s shadow at a time. This is the most authentic journey.
A total solar eclipse is not only one of nature’s most profound experiences, but it combines my interests in travel and astronomy. However, they are incomprehensible and dynamic events, with science, geography and meteorology all colliding head-on.
Most people know nothing about them because they rarely appear in one place, which means I’m always careful to write down the basics. Surprisingly, most travel writers know nothing about total solar eclipses, so I tried to fill in the blanks. My job is to distill complex science into digestible, usable information while ignoring received wisdom and debunking myths and assumptions.
As the son of two geographers, I grew up surrounded by maps, often off the beaten track. There’s nothing I love more than looking at a map of the upcoming eclipse and making plans to explore a world I’ve never been to.
I’ve experienced eclipses on beaches in Australia and the UK, on tennis courts in Chile, and even on a ship near Antarctica.
As many eclipse chasers will tell you after seeing a few total solar eclipses, the excitement of seeing a total solar eclipse sunThe aura remains, but the allure of visiting new places is just as powerful.
What’s next? Are you taking a break or already preparing for future eclipses?
One of the results of the April 8 total solar eclipse is that a new group of people want to see the next total solar eclipse.as editor WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com, these are all my people! People are hungry for information about the upcoming total solar eclipse, so I’m already preparing articles and books about the next total solar eclipse in 2026 and 2027.
But I’m looking forward to the summer, when I can maybe take a year off from writing about eclipses and work on something completely different – possibly the “Great Lunar Pause” later this year.
When is the next solar eclipse? A Traveler’s Guide to Total Solar Eclipses 2026-2034
Carter is also busy creating a complete eclipse travel guide for the next 10 years of total solar eclipses, taking us all the way to 2034.
“This book is full of ‘secret’ experiences that only a total eclipse and travel nerd like me can find!” Carter told Space.com
Inside you’ll find key information about the upcoming total solar eclipse, designed to help you plan the perfect eclipse adventure.
Next total solar eclipse [in 2026] will give people the chance to see the “Golden Crown” sink into the Mediterranean, followed by Perseid meteor shower. Another attack in 2030 will submerge Namibia’s Skeleton Coast moonBest time of year to see shadows Milky Way After sunset.
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