Cruzeiros Científicos SETI

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Cientistas de classe mundial do Instituto SETI que se juntam aos nossos cruzeiros de expedição como palestrantes convidados.

Cristina Dalle Ore

Cristina é uma cientista planetária e pesquisadora reconhecida pela NASA cujo trabalho a levou às longínquas fronteiras do nosso sistema solar, sem jamais sair da Terra. Com interesse particular em decodificar os mistérios dos mundos gelados no espaço, ela foi uma colaboradora chave na missão New Horizons para Plutão e na missão Cassini para Saturno. Sua descoberta de amônia em Plutão foi uma constatação marcante no campo da ciência planetária. Cristina possui doutorado em Astronomia e Astrofísica pela UC Santa Cruz e compartilhou seus conhecimentos em TEDx e em fóruns científicos globais. Hoje, ela traz sua paixão pela exploração para a Terra, oferecendo uma perspectiva cósmica sobre as paisagens geladas que encontramos em nosso planeta.

David Grinspoon

David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist, award-winning author, and one of the world's most engaging communicators of planetary science. Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and former Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA, he studies how climate evolves on Earth-like planets, where life might exist elsewhere, and how human activity is reshaping our own world. He currently serves on the science team for NASA's upcoming DAVINCI mission to Venus, and in 2013 became the inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress. Winner of the Carl Sagan Medal for public communication, a frequent voice on StarTalk Radio, and the author of Earth in Human Hands and Lonely Planets, he brings the search for life in the universe vividly to life. He even has an asteroid named after him. Onboard, his lectures connect the wonders of the cosmos to the living planet beneath our feet.

Mark Showalter

A carreira de pesquisa do astrônomo planetário Mark Showalter é uma trajetória que progrediu de forma constante rumo às fronteiras do sistema solar.A Ele embarcou em algumas das missões de maior destaque da NASA destinadas aos planetas exteriores,A participando da "Grande Tour" da Voyager pelos planetas gigantes, da prolongada exploração do sistema de Saturno pela Cassini e da missão New Horizons a Plutão e ao Cinturão de Kuiper.A

Marziye Jafariyazani

Dr. Marziye Jafariyazani is a Data Scientist for NASA’s TESS Mission at the SETI Institute, where she is part of the Science Processing Operations Center of the mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center. TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is designed to discover new exoplanets by monitoring stars and looking for tiny dips in their brightness caused by planets passing in front of them. Before shifting her focus to our own galaxy and analyzing stellar time-series data to help discover Earth’s cousins, Marziye dedicated her Ph.D. thesis and subsequent postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Observatories, and Caltech/IPAC to exploring distant galaxies. She studied the processes of star formation within them, their chemical composition, and what these factors can reveal about formation and evolution of galaxies

Michael Lam

Michael Lam is a research scientist working with the SETI Institute and as part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav). He completed his PhD from Cornell University, was a postdoctoral fellow at West Virginia University, and was an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology before joining the SETI Institute. His research ties together many fields of astronomy: radio telescopes, observations of pulsars, physics of interstellar gas, and the newly-opened field of gravitational wave observation

Orkan Umurhan

Dr. Orkan Umurhan is a mathematical physicist and planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, where he investigates how planets form and how icy landscapes evolve on Earth, and from Mars and all the way out to Pluto. He has served as a NASA mission scientist on enterprises like New Horizons and studies how dust and gas chaotically swirl into the building blocks of planets in young solar systems. He’s involved in new mission design concepts to visit comets and is currently writing a book on cosmic turbulence. A dedicated science communicator and educator of decades, he shares the wonders of planetary science with audiences of all ages—and has even appeared on TV from time to time! When contemplating sublime cosmic mysteries, he's a baseball-dad musician who enjoys trekking through exotic wild landscapes of this planet with his partner and son

Peter Tenenbaum

Peter Tenenbaum joined the SETI Institute to analyze data for NASA’s Kepler mission, helping detect and characterize exoplanets—contributing to discoveries that now number over 3,000. He later worked on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, becoming Lead Software Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw data processing systems. Today, he adapts TESS software for broader scientific use. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and previously worked at CERN in Geneva and SLAC in Palo Alto

Simon George

O Dr. Simon J. George é um cientista de pesquisa experimental no Instituto SETI, com foco no papel de metais como ferro, níquel, zinco e molibdênio na química da vida. Seu trabalho envolve o desenvolvimento de instrumentos inovadores para estudar esses metais, com o objetivo de compreender seu papel na origem da vida. A carreira do Dr. George abrangeu laboratórios nacionais, universidades e indústria antes de ingressar no Instituto SETI em 2023. Como astrobiólogo, estuda as origens, a evolução, a distribuição e o futuro da vida no universo. Interessam‑lhe particularmente os extremófilos (organismos que prosperam em ambientes extremos) e as complexas proteínas que contêm metais e que provavelmente foram fundamentais nas formas de vida ancestrais

Simon Steel

Dr. Simon Steel has over 25 years' experience as a lecturer and science communicator, presenting on all aspects of our amazing universe — from the Earth and planets to stars, galaxies, and black holes. Currently Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, Simon has divided his career between Harvard and Tufts Universities and University College London before joining the SETI Institute in 2019. Outside of his scientific work, Simon is an avid photographer, hiker, movie buff, and a veteran of Swan Hellenic cruises

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Cristina Dalle Ore

David Grinspoon

Mark Showalter

Marziye Jafariyazani

Michael Lam

Orkan Umurhan

Peter Tenenbaum

Simon George

Simon Steel

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