Frank Drake, PhD.
Senior Scientist

Dr. Frank Drake serves on the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute.

In 1960, as a staff member of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, he conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial...[Continued...]

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David Eicher
Editor, Astronomy Magazine

Dave Eicher has been with Astronomy magazine for 24 years, beginning as an assistant editor and working through associate, senior, and managing positions.He has been the magazine's editor since 2002... [Continued...]

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Alex Filippenko, Phd.
California Institute of Technology,
University of California at Berkeley

Dr. Alex Filippenko received his bachelor's degree in Physics (1979) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his doctorate in Astronomy (1984) from the California Institute of Technology. He subsequently became a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow... [Continued...]

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Mark Hammergren, PhD
Astronomer,
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum

Dr. Mark Hammergren received his PhD in astronomy from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998, and spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory... [Continued...]

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Paul H. Knappenberger Jr., PhD.
President of the Adler Planetarium, Astronomy Museum in Chicago

Dr. Paul H. Knappenberger Jr., PhD, is President of the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago, a post he has held since 1991. He serves as president of Chicago’s Museums in the Park organization, a consortium of ten major museums situated on Chicago Park District property... [Continued...]

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Dennis Mammana
Astronomy Author & Photographer, SkyScapes

For more than three decades, Dennis Mammana has shared the wonder and mystery of the cosmos with audiences around the world. With a B.A. in physics from Otterbein College, and an M.S. in astronomy from Vanderbilt University, Mammana has held positions at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum... [Continued...]

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Jim Manning , PhD.
Executive Director, ASP

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today that James Manning has been appointed to the position of Executive Director. Currently serving as Head of the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Mr. Manning will take up his new duties in San Francisco in early July... [Continued...]

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Chris McKay, PhD.
Member of the Mars Society
NASA Ames Research Center,Mountain View, CA.

Dr. Chris McKay received his Ph.D. in AstroGeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982 and has been a research scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center since that time. His current research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. He is also actively involved in planning for future Mars missions including human settlements... [Continued...]

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Dr. William Sheehan
Contributing editor, Sky & Telescope
Psychiatrist, consultant to PACT-4 Families Collaborative

William Sheehan is one of the world's leading students of the planet Mars. In June 2001, he and a team of observers in the Florida Keys predicted and observed Martian flares at Edom Promontorium... [Continued...]

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Seth Shostak, PhD.
Public Programs Scientist and Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

Dr. Seth Shostak is an astronomer involved with Project Phoenix, and has a BA in physics from Princeton and a PhD in astronomy from Caltech. But he's also responsible for much of the outreach activities of the Institute. He edits the newsletter, gives talks and writes magazine articles (and books) about SETI... [Continued...]

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Rich Talcott
Senior Editor, Astronomy magazine

Senior Editor Rich Talcott brings to the magazine a lifelong interest in the science of astronomy as well as observing the night sky. He graduated from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, in 1976 with a degree in Mathematics... [Continued...]

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Michelle Thaller, PhD.
Research Scientist, California Institute of Technology

Dr. Michelle Thaller is a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology who divides her time between astronomical research and public education.... [Continued...]

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