Podcaster: Host : Dr. Pamela Gay ; Guest: Dr. Jill Tarter, Dave Dickinson, Michael Rodruck, Pam Hoffman
Title: Weekly Space Hangout – Guest: Dr. Jill Tarter and the Search for Technosignatures
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
Description: Today’s story:
- OSIRIS-REx samples Bennu!
- Spooky Halloween night sky highlights.
- Dwarf galaxy collision.
- Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!
- BepiColombo update.
- InSight finally buried the Mole!
Host: Dr. Pamela Gay ( https://cosmoquest.org/x/ & @starstryder )
Special Guests:
This week we are excited (and honored) to welcome Dr. Jill Tarter to the Weekly Space Hangout. Best known for her work in the field of SETI, tonight Jill will be discussing the search for technosignatures.
Dr. Tarter is the Emeritus Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution.
Dr. Tarter received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and her Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She has spent the majority of her professional career attempting to answer the old human question “Are we alone?” by searching for evidence of technological civilizations beyond Earth.
She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide. She is a Fellow of the AAAS, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Explorers Club, she was named one of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2004, and one of the Time 25 in Space in 2012, received a TED prize in 2009, two public service awards from NASA, multiple awards for communicating science to the public, and has been honored as a woman in technology. She was the 2014 Jansky Lecturer, and received a Genius Award from Liberty Science Center in 2015. She served as President of the California Academy of Sciences 2015-16. Asteroid 74824 Tarter (1999 TJ16) has been named in her honor.
Since the termination of funding for NASA’s SETI program in 1993, she has served in a leadership role to design and build the Allen Telescope Array and to secure private funding to continue the exploratory science of SETI.
Many people are now familiar with her work as portrayed by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact. Her biography Making Contact was written by Sarah Scoles and published in 2017.
You can read an excerpt from Jill’s biography Making Contact and learn how to get your own copy here: https://books.google.co.id/books/about/Making_Contact_Jill_Tarter_and_the_Searc.html?id=HTIpDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
You can learn more about Jill by visiting her SETI profile here: https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/jill-tarter
To learn more about the Allen Telescope Array, visit https://www.seti.org/ata
Guest:
- Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )
- Michael Rodruck ( https://sites.psu.edu/mrodruck/ / @MichaelRodruck )
- Pam Hoffman ( http://spacer.pamhoffman.com/ / http://everydayspacer.com/ & @EverydaySpacer )
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