American physicist and science communicator
Carrie Nugent (born 1984) is an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science at Olin College . She studies near-Earth objects . She is also a popular science communicator, and is a Senior TED Fellow . The asteroid 8801 Nugent was named after her.
Early life and education
Nugent studied at Mira Costa High School , graduating in the class of 2002.[ 1] [ 2] She earned an undergraduate degree in physics .[ 3] She studied geophysics at University of California, Los Angeles , and earned her PhD in 2013.[ 4] She was supervised by Jean-Luc Margot and investigated the Yarkovsky effect .[ 5] She served as an Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) Fellow from 2015.[ 6] She worked at the Summer App Space, a Los Angeles based apprenticeship for people to learn programming whilst working on space projects.[ 7]
Research and career
Nugent worked with the Near-Earth Object part of the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer , known as NEOWISE .[ 8] [ 9] She was part of the Near-Earth Object Camera asteroid hunting teams.[ 10] For this, Nugent was awarded the NASA Group Achievement Award . She believes asteroid impact is the only natural disaster that we can prevent.[ 11] In 2015 she named an asteroid after Malala Yousafzai .[ 12]
Nugent joined the faculty at Olin College as an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science in 2018.[ 13] [ 14] She works on asteroid detection, and focuses on the identification of asteroids that could be a threat to Earth .[ 15]
Public engagement
Nugent was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 2008.[ 16] She was selected as a TED Fellow in 2016, and a Senior TED Fellow in 2018.[ 17] Nugent delivered a TED talk Adventures of an asteroid hunter at the TED conference in 2016.[ 18] After her TED talk , Nugent wrote the book Asteroid Hunters with Simon & Schuster .[ 19] [ 20] The talk was also used in a TED-Ed video.[ 21] In her spare time she produces the podcast SpacePod. [ 22] The podcast involves short episodes (15 minute in length) featuring relaxed conversations with space explorers .[ 23] She serves as one of The Planetary Society experts.[ 24] A question about Nugent's research was once included in Jeopardy! .[ 25]
Awards and honours
Books
Nugent, Carrie (2017). Asteroid Hunters . Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 9781471162398 .
References
^ a b "Hall Of Fame – My blog" . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ a b "Mira Costa honors six more distinguished alumni" . The Beach Reporter . September 21, 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-07 .
^ Hess, Peter. "Asteroid Hunter Carrie Nugent Is Trying to Save the World" . Inverse . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "Biography of Carrie Nugent for Appearances, Speaking Engagements" . www.allamericanspeakers.com . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Nugent, Carolyn Rosemary (2013). Solar Radiation and Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling and New Measurements of the Yarkovsky Effect (Thesis). UCLA.
^ "We must keep searching the sky!" . IPAC . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "Instructors – Summer App Space" . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ "Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience" . www.lpi.usra.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ "» Vermin of the sky" . live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ Insider, Ariel Schwartz, Business. "An asteroid hunter reveals how she finds the space rocks that could destroy earth" . Business Insider . Retrieved 2019-06-08 . CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )
^ Wolfe, Alexandra (2017-05-26). "Tales of an Asteroid Hunter" . Wall Street Journal . ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ sara.cardine@latimes.com, Sara Cardine. "Asteroid's name skyrockets across social media" . latimes.com . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ "Influx of New Faculty Join Olin College of Engineering | Olin College" . www.olin.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ a b "Olin College Professor Carrie Nugent Awarded Carl Sagan Medal | Olin College" . www.olin.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Fornoff, Marcheta. "An 'asteroid hunter' shares her job description" . www.mprnews.org . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ "Mass Media Fellows Describe Their Experiences" . www.aps.org . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ D'Arcy, Patrick (2016-01-05). "21 Rising Stars To Watch in 2016" . TED Fellows . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Nugent, Carrie, Adventures of an asteroid hunter , retrieved 2019-06-06
^ "Carrie Nugent" . Simon & Schuster . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "Asteroid Hunters" . guardianbookshop.com . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ TED-Ed (2017-10-16), The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent , retrieved 2019-06-06
^ "About" . Spacepod . Archived from the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Singer, Kelsi (2015-09-24). "Great New Science Podcast by Dr. Carrie Nugent" . Women in Planetary Science: Female Scientists on Careers, Research, Space Science, and Work/Life Balance . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ "Carrie Nugent" . www.planetary.org . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "(Cara Santa Maria gives the clue.) Caltech scientist Carrie Nugent explained how to track & predict the impact these would have if on a collision course with Earth; the method used in the movie Armageddon is not very practical - JeopardyQuestions.com" . jeopardyquestions.com . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser" . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "Meet the 2018 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows" . TED Blog . 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ "DPS Announces 2019 Prize Winners | American Astronomical Society" . aas.org . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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