Karen Meech: The Archaeology of Habitable Worlds: Using Small Bodies to Unlock the Past

Dr. Meech is an American astronomer and astrobiologist whose professional interests are understanding how the ingredients that make a world habitable are delivered to terrestrial planets in their host star’s habitable zone. In particular, Dr. Meech tries to understand the distribution of volatiles in the early solar system, and how water was delivered to Earth. She received several awards during her career such as the Annie Jump Cannon award in 1988 and the Harold C. Urey Prize in 1994. She was co-investigator of the Deep Impact, EPOXI and Stardust-NeXT missions for which she has coordinated the world's Earth-based and space-based observing programs. She is involved in large international collaborations, and has recently led the characterization of the first interstellar visitor "Oumuamua". In addition to her research work, she is very committed to the educational program of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii as the chair of the Graduate Program since 2018.

09:10 - beginning of the presentation
01:11:08 - beginning of the Q&A

Spanish version: TBD

The panel of the 'Golden Webinar' consisted of:
• Karen Meech – Speaker
• Patricio Gonzalez (patricio.gonzalez.interprete@gmail.com) – Interpreter
• Thomas H. Puzia – Co-host, Faculty at the Institute of Astrophysics (IA)
• Paula Ronco – Co-host, Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Simón Ángel – Q&A manager, Outreach Team IA
• Cristobal Petrovich – Faculty at IA
• Elizabeth Artur de la Villarmois – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Daniela Lazzaro – Professor and Researcher in Astronomy at the Observatório Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Millarca Valenzuela – Geologist and Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas - Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta Chile
• Meredith MacGregor – Professor of Astronomy, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
• Julio Ángel Fernández – Professor of Astronomy at the Facultad de Ciencias - Universidad de la República, Montevideo Uruguay
• Jorge Cuadra – Researcher at the Millennium Nucleus on Planet Formation and Professor of Astronomy at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
• Dan Werthimer – Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of the SETI@home project at the Berkeley SETI Research Center
• Sean Raymond – Astronomer at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France
• Paul Hoyningen-Huene – Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, and Lecturer at the Department of Economics at Universität Zürich

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