Today: Uncovering the secrets of the Antarctic. Tomorrow...Europa! | Matt Meister | TEDxPeachtree

Matt Meister is a trained engineer but he is really an explorer at heart. In this talk, he shows us the underwater drone that is gathering the information needed to get us ready to explore if there is life on Europa, a moon of Jupiter!

Matt is the lead engineer of Icefin, a NASA-funded project at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Icefin is designed to survey and map the surface environment in polar regions such as
Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf (RIS). Matt developed Icefin’s initial mechanical design while still an undergraduate and
was part of the Antarctic team deployed in 2014. Results from this expedition were covered by CNET.com, Bloomberg.com,
NBCNews.com, Space.com and WABE 90.1 FM. Learnings from this and other expeditions will eventually be applied toward exploring the existence of life in our solar system and beyond.

Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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