Korado
Korlevic
Born in the city of Porec 1958, he spent the college years
in the city of Pula where he became an active member of the
local amateur astronomical society. That was followed by years
of observing, making telescopes and teaching. As student started
he to teach gifted pupils the introduction to science through
astronomical courses at the Amateur Astronomical Society of
Visnjan. In the year 1981. got a B.Sc. from the pedagogical
faculty of Rijeka. From that period, the problem of the motivation
of gifted children become a "file rogue" of the
following years of work as teacher of polytechnics and computer
science. At the end of the '80 with a group of "same
thinkers" he started the "Yugoslav School of Astronomy",
which after the war became known as "The Visnjan School
of Astronomy" . As an amateur astronomer he started to
observe meteors seriously and participated in the IMO as the
organization formed. The work on meteors culminated with the
participation in the "1st International Tunguska Expedition",
with two main projects.
The search of the possible strewn field gave tens of kilograms
of samples, from which drops of resin from the Tunguska explosion
were extracted. The analysis of that resin and a long the
tree rings specimen at the Bologna University resulted in
a series of Italian expeditions during the following years.
At that time the war in Croatia blocked nearly all activities,
but the work whit gifted pupils at Visnjan was intensified.
Motivated by the problem of bright fireballs, the results
of the analysis of the Tunguska samples and a growing perception
that the next "Tunguska" is better if analyzed in
space instead on the ground, Korado started the work to replace
the Visnjan Observatory's telescope lost during the Bosnian
war. After few years and help of a group of friends the new,
specialized telescope produced the first astrometric line
in the 1995. Very soon astrometry measurements were followed
by the first discoveries of asteroids and comets from Croatia.
Korado Korlevic was the editor of the "Nebeske krijesnice"
newsletter and referee for astronomical articles regarding
small bodies and impact topics. The main challenge is still
the search of better, more effective way to motivate the gifted
pupils, and for that purpose few very different educational
activities are organized at the Visnjan observatory. His free
time is dedicated to family and the construction of astronomical
instruments , meteor observations, micrometeorite analysis,
optimization of asteroid and comet astrometry and their observations,
workshops on methods of creative thinking, entomology excursions,
painting, etc...
Member
of the following associations:
International Meteor Organization
The Planetary Society
Spaceguard Foundation
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
National Geographic Society
Croatian entomological society
Lions International
Sustaining Member: Associazzione Friulana di Astronomia e
Meteorologia
Prizes:
- Porec city prize "San Mauro" - "for the educational
achievements"
- Farra d'Isonzo Observatory asteroid 10201 was named "Korado"
- "for the
educational and social work"
- Edgar Wilson Award 1999, 2000 - "for the comets discovery"
Ivan
Turcin
Personal
information
Name and surname: Ivan Turcin
Date of birth: 19th Apr. 1981
Address: Antuna Vrancica 1a, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Telephone: ++385 1 466 75 16
GSM: ++385 98 70 55 10
E-mail: Ivan.Turcin@fer.hr
Marital status: Single
Citizenship: Croatian
Native thongue: Croatian
Education
Elementary school: Ivan Goran Kovacic, Zagreb, Croatia (1987-1991)
Ksave Sandor Gjalski, Zagreb, Croatia (1991-1995)
High school: V. Gimnazija, Zagreb, Croatia (1995-1999)
University: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Computing (1999-)
Current status: Undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering
and Computing
Languages
Fluent in English, both in oral and written form. Learnt English
for 13 years
Limited knowledge of German. Learnt German for 5 years
Achievements/Awards
Participation at county contests in astronomy from 1994 till
1999
2nd place in at county contests in astronomy in 1997
Attended Visnjan Summer School of Astronomy in 1997, 1998
Attended Photography and Video Summer Courses 1994. 1995
Work
Member of Visnjan Observatory
Member of Planetary Society
Worked (1999-2001) at local radio station called Radio 101
as technician
Mentor at Visnjan Education Projects (2000-)
Currently working on Setting up an Online Web Based Conference
Center at Visnjan Observatory for Educating Students in Science
Currently working on Visual Observations of Meteor Showers
with CCD-Camera and VLF at Visnjan Observatory
Currently working on Development of Visnjan Educational Programs
