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Meet Me in Orbit with Erin Eldridge
June 1, 1pm Eastern
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Erin is an aerospace engineering consultant who worked as a contractor at Johnson Space Center from 2011 through 2019. Among her roles: requirements for the Peripheral Docking Targets on the International Docking Adapters, and Lead Developer for RPOP, which astronauts use to monitor orbital rendezvous.

Wildlife Forensics with Madi Verbeek
June 2, 1pm Eastern
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Madelaine Verbeek is completing her final semester at the University of Florida receiving her master's degree in Wildlife Forensics and Conservation. Madi is interested in the intersection of forensics, genetics, and conservation. She is also interested in museum genomics and how it can contribute to the wildlife forensic field.

Understanding how people perceive nature
Nicholas Yarmey and Steven DiFalco
June 3, 1pm Eastern
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Nick did his Master's at the University of Connecticut studying what people think about black bears and black bear management. He has also researched human-beaver coexistence, and media portrayals of grizzly bear conservation. Now he's a research associate at the University of Alberta, where he uses GIS to understand the impacts of resource development on human wellbeing, particularly for Indigenous and rural communities.
Twitter: @NickYarmey

Steven is currently finishing his master's at the University of Connecticut, studying people's perceptions of roadside tree trimming. The goal of the project is to create more sustainable management decisions to mitigate conflicts. He has an interest in invasive species, native pollinators, and map-making. Steven likes using iNaturalist, which is an online community of citizen scientists, to document and discover species found while exploring local protected areas. Twitter: @stevendifalco / website: stevendifalco.github.io

Paleontology with Triceratops with Sophie Cajune
June 5, 1pm Eastern
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Sophia is an undergraduate student at Montana State University, majoring in Paleontology. She has dreamed of being a paleontologist since she was four years old and now works at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Sophie is currently conducting research on the cranial anatomy of Triceratops and hopes to publish her very first paper on the subject. She is fascinated with all things science and can be found watching nature documentaries or out fishing and climbing most days. For the past few years, she has shared paleontology-related content through her Instagram account and hopes to share her love of paleontology, communicate science, and educate others through her posts.

Exploring Diversity in AI
June 8 1pm Eastern
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Kandrea Wade is entering her second year as a PhD student in the Information Science department at CU Boulder focusing on algorithmic identity and the digital surveillance of marginalized groups. Along with developing her research at CU Boulder, Kandrea seeks to discover and assist in creating proper ethical regulations and education on algorithmic identity and digital literacy. With a background of over 15 years in entertainment and media, her interests have evolved from demographic programming for entertainment and media theory to corporate user ethics and legal protections for the digital citizen. Kandrea holds BA in technical theatre from The University of Texas at Arlington and an MA in media, culture, and communications from New York University.

Designing Missions to the Moon and Mars
June 9th, 1pm Eastern
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Sydney Dolan is a Master's student studying aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on mission design to the moon and mars, as well as in space assembly. She is the current co-president of Graduate Womxn in Aerospace, a group that advocates for underrepresented gender minorities in her department. When she's not studying, she enjoys training for ultramarathons, rock climbing, and baking.

The Elusive Space Fireworks with Tomas Ahumada
June 10, 1pm Eastern
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I am a Chilean astronomer searching for optical counterparts of short gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves. Currently, I am a third year Astronomy PhD student at the University of Maryland (UMD). I am working with Dr. Leo Singer from NASA using the Zwicky Transient Facility to cover large portions of the sky and maximize the probability to find transients in the northern nightsky. I obtained my undergraduate degree from the P. Universidad Católica de Chile where I majored in Astronomy. While there, I worked using machine learning algorithms to find quasars in the ATLAS survey. During my senior year summer, I was part of the Cerro Tololo (CTIO) Reaserch Experience for Undergraduates and worked on identifying globular clusters an a shell-elliptical galaxy. After my graduation I interned at the Gemini Observatory and further analyzed the morphology of the galaxy.

Hagfish Slime with Sarah Schorno
June 15, 1pm Eastern
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Sarah Schorno got her Bachelors of Science in Zoology from University of Guelph and got her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from University of Guelph. During her Ph.D. she studied how hagfish slime is made!

In her spare time she is trying to become an amateur taxidermist slowly learning some skills of the art!

Vocal learning and genetics in a parrot
June 16 1pm Eastern
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I'm a PhD student working with Dr. Timothy Wright at New Mexico State University. I was born in the U.S. and raised traveling between family homes in the U.S. and Nicaragua. I identify as a queer Latina scientist, and I'm interested in how animals use vocal learning to communicate, as well as how animals adapt to new environments.

Disaster Drones with Laura Hart
June 19, 1pm US Eastern
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Laura is a Program Coordinator at the Center for Disaster Risk Policy and an instructor in the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program at Florida State University. She conducts research in UAS integration and applications, operates as a public, unmanned pilot and member of the CDRP UAS Team, and occasionally serves as a UAS Coordinator in the Air Operations Branch at the Florida State Emergency Operations Center during disasters. She also maintains the CDRP UAS equipment cache.

Laura is interested in policy analysis (specifically innovation and diffusion) at the federal, state, and local levels, and applies this interest to UAS policies, laws, and regulations. She is nearing the end of her third year as a doctoral student at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University.

Carly Anne York
June 23, 1pm Eastern
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Dr. Carly Anne York is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina. Her interests lay in the field of animal physiology, and she earned her doctorate studying how squid use their sensory systems to evade predators.

Squid and Climate Change with Casey Zakroff
June 26, 1pm Eastern
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Casey Zakroff is a marine invertebrate ecophysiologist: he studies how animals’ bodies, organs, etc. respond to, and are potentially impacted by, changes in their environment. During his PhD at MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution he studied how squid eggs and hatchlings (paralarvae) were affected (or not!) by ocean acidification and warming.

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