Bernard Pellequer Director of Géospace Observatoire d'Aniane, France
Abstract
Experience with the relationship between science and its popularization
shows the importance of personal contact. For more than twenty-five years, Geospace
Observatoire d'Aniane, in southern France, has served as an interface between the
world of research in Earth Sciences and those of the Universe. Those active on the
site work in close collaboration with research workers in these disciplines, making
information available at the local level in a variety of ways. A plea is made in favor
of scientific popularization at the general public level, at which a real debate on
the role of science can take place.