Podcaster: Richard Drumm ; Guest: Dr. Geneviève de Messières
Title: Astro Interviews – Dr. Geneviève de Messières
Organization: 365 Days Of Astronomy
Link : 365 Days Of Astronomy
Description: Our Audio Producer Richard Drumm, chatted up with Dr. Geneviève de Messières ( @demessieres ) of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and asked her the standard set of questions.
Bio: Richard Drumm is President of the Charlottesville Astronomical Society and President of 3D – Drumm Digital Design, a video production company with clients such as Kodak, Xerox and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. He was an observer with the UVa Parallax Program at McCormick Observatory in 1981 & 1982. He has found that his greatest passion in life is public outreach astronomy and he pursues it at every opportunity.
At the ALCon 2016 Astronomical League Conference I chatted up Dr. Geneviève de Messières ( @demessieres ) of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and asked her the standard set of questions.
Dr. de Messières manages the astronomy education program at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The keystone of the program is the Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory on the National Mall. Her enthusiastic team of staff, student employees, and dozens of volunteers regularly invite the public to become astronomers by using telescopes and engaging with hands-on astronomy activities. They also lead lectures in the Albert Einstein Planetarium, teacher workshops, and school field trips. After studying astrophysics at Swarthmore College, Dr. de Messières earned her PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia.
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