Category: Scientific Gatherings

  • GBT Surveys of the 21-cm Sky

    ALPACA, the Advanced L-band Phased Array Camera for Astronomy, is a phased-array receiver capable of providing high sensitivity observations simultaneously for 40 beams on the GBT in the 1-2 GHz band.


  • Fermi Bubbles Conference

    Contents of the Fermi Bubbles The Green Bank Observatory is holding a special science meeting in May 2025 on the Fermi Bubbles in honor of Jay Lockman’s 50+ years of service to NRAO/GBO and his retirement.  In 2010, the gamma-ray observatory Fermi discovered bright gamma rays structures above and below the center of our Milky…


  • NSF GBO and NRAO at the International Astronomy Union General Assembly XXXII

    The International Astronomy Union (IAU) is General Assembly XXXII in Cape Town, South Africa, August 6 – 15, 2024. This event is one of the world’s largest international gatherings of astronomers, and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and the Green Bank Observatory (NSF GBO) will share their latest science…


  • Fall 2024 – Virtual

    October 8 – 10, 2024 – Observer Training Workshop


  • Spring Internal Symposium

    Green Bank Observatory is hosting the 2024 Spring Internal Symposium May 13-14. The symposium is designed to highlight research by the staffs of the GBO and NRAO-CV.


  • 2024 GBO SDSS

    June 23-29, 2024 (In-Person Only)


  • February 2024 (virtual)

    February 6-8, 2024 (virtual)


  • Oxygen in Planetary Biospheres

    The Green Bank Blumberg Astrobiology workshops are supported by a grant from Unither Bioelectronique, in honor of Dr. Barry Blumberg, the late Chairman of its corporate parent’s Scientific Advisory Board. May 5-7, 2023 at the Green Bank Observatory (GBO) in Green Bank, WV I understood that my mandate was to establish a basic science organization…