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Dr. Pamela L. Gay
Dr. Pamela L. Gay is an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using new media to engage people in science and technology. She is most well known for Astronomy Cast, a podcast she co-hosts with Fraser Cain (Producer of Universe Today). Each week, Fraser and Pamela work to take their listeners on a facts-based journey through the cosmos that explores not only what we know about the universe, but how we know it. They are now entering their eighth year of production, and thanks to the constant new discoveries coming out of the Space Science communities, they have no plans stop recording any time soon.
Not satisfied to just teach people astronomy through Astronomy Cast, Pamela also works to engage people in doing science through the CosmoQuest Virtual Research Facility, an online portal that invites the public to participate in NASA citizen science projects. Working in partnership with the number of different missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, she challenges every day people to help us map our solar system.
In addition to podcasting and building CosmoQuest, she also works to communicate astronomy to the public through and her blog StarStryder.com, through frequent public talks, and through popular articles. Her writing has appeared in Astronomy, Sky and Telescope, and Lightspeed magazines, and she has appeared on the TV show, The Universe.
A public school kid through and through, she received a B.S. in Astrophysics from Michigan State University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Texas in 2002. Today, she teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Although her first research love was and remains variable stars, I have committed scientific adultery more than once to use my technology skills to explore the secrets of galaxy evolution, and planetary surface geology.
While it may seem that she either lives on campus or perhaps on planes, she actually live in a historic house in southern Illinois with her husband, two dogs, and a lot of gadgets. Whenever she can, she escapes to horseback ride on her thoroughbred, Ben.
Not satisfied to just teach people astronomy through Astronomy Cast, Pamela also works to engage people in doing science through the CosmoQuest Virtual Research Facility, an online portal that invites the public to participate in NASA citizen science projects. Working in partnership with the number of different missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, she challenges every day people to help us map our solar system.
In addition to podcasting and building CosmoQuest, she also works to communicate astronomy to the public through and her blog StarStryder.com, through frequent public talks, and through popular articles. Her writing has appeared in Astronomy, Sky and Telescope, and Lightspeed magazines, and she has appeared on the TV show, The Universe.
A public school kid through and through, she received a B.S. in Astrophysics from Michigan State University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Texas in 2002. Today, she teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Although her first research love was and remains variable stars, I have committed scientific adultery more than once to use my technology skills to explore the secrets of galaxy evolution, and planetary surface geology.
While it may seem that she either lives on campus or perhaps on planes, she actually live in a historic house in southern Illinois with her husband, two dogs, and a lot of gadgets. Whenever she can, she escapes to horseback ride on her thoroughbred, Ben.
