Happening Now…
Preorder our new edition of Light coming out July 16, 2024
Check out BBC/Nova’s Universe
The upcoming new paperback edition of “Light: The Visible Spectrum and Beyond” has received a starred Library Journal review! Coming out in July, pre-orders are now available.
Visit "Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky,"if you’re in Washington DC. This exhibit on light pollution I co-curated is at @nmnh through April 2025.
Listen to a segment with me on sonification for NPR’s Science Friday. Catch me on NPR Weekend Edition, or talking about black holes on the BBC ‘Universe” tv series on PBS in the US & BBC in the UK.
Stars in your Hand on 3D printing the Universe, was co-written with Megan Watzke. Please leave a review! Settle in for some bedtime reading with my children’s book, Goodnight Exomoon, available at B&N and Amazon. Read the Smithsonian Magazine review.
It all started when…
I was working in molecular biology and public health when I was hired for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 1998. Since I always wanted to be an astronaut when I was little, this opportunity got me close to the cosmos but without the long distance commute. Today, I use data to tell stories about science, whether in the form of a 3D print of a supernova remnant, a Virtual Reality application in high-energy astrophysics, or a data sonification of the stars.
Science storytelling
The story continues…
I enjoy connecting with different groups, from small classes of elementary students to large conferences with aerospace industry professionals. I have had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the Library of Congress, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United Nations (Space for Women), US Congress (Science on the Hill), Blue Origin, Intrepid Museum, Brown University, Boston Museum of Science, Franklin Institute, USA Science and Engineering Festival, TEDx, SXSW, and many others for my day job. Whether I’m discussing space, light, data visualization or women in STEM, I greatly appreciate being able to interact with diverse audiences as part of my career.
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