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Kevin R. Grazier
Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D. is a writer/producer for The 50 Most Extreme Places in the Solar System, and the web series Stasys. He is also currently the science advisor on TNT's Falling Skies, Syfy's upcoming epic Defiance, and the summer blockbuster film Gravity. He formerly served as science advisor on Eureka, the Peabody-award-winning Battlestar Galactica, The Event, and several other series. He was the co-author of The Science of Battlestar Galactica, editor of Hollywood Chemistry, The Science of Dune, The Science of Michael Crichton, and Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists.
Grazier is a recovering rocket scientist, and spent 15 years on the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan. At JPL he wrote mission planning and analysis software that won both JPL- and NASA-wide awards. Still an active researcher, his research areas are numerical method development and long-term large-scale computer simulations of Solar System dynamics, evolution, and chaos.
Dr. Grazier is also very active in bringing the wonders of science and space to the public. He teaches classes in basic astronomy, planetary science, cosmology, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the science of science fiction, and has taught at UCLA, Santa Monica College, and College of the Canyons. He has appeared on several episodes of History Channel's The Universe, National Geographic's Naked Science, and he co-hosted the premiere episode of Discovery Channel's Science Live! Kids' Edition. He also co-anchored CNN's all-day live coverage of the Cassini spacecraft's Saturn orbit insertion with science correspondent Miles O'Brien. He also serves on multiple NASA educational product review panels.
In 2001 Dr. Grazier was named the first-ever honorary chairperson for Oakland University's "Week of Champions" (homecoming) celebration, eight years later he won OU's Odyssey Award given to the alumni whose life most typifies the university's motto: To Seek Virtue and Knowledge.
Grazier is a recovering rocket scientist, and spent 15 years on the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan. At JPL he wrote mission planning and analysis software that won both JPL- and NASA-wide awards. Still an active researcher, his research areas are numerical method development and long-term large-scale computer simulations of Solar System dynamics, evolution, and chaos.
Dr. Grazier is also very active in bringing the wonders of science and space to the public. He teaches classes in basic astronomy, planetary science, cosmology, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the science of science fiction, and has taught at UCLA, Santa Monica College, and College of the Canyons. He has appeared on several episodes of History Channel's The Universe, National Geographic's Naked Science, and he co-hosted the premiere episode of Discovery Channel's Science Live! Kids' Edition. He also co-anchored CNN's all-day live coverage of the Cassini spacecraft's Saturn orbit insertion with science correspondent Miles O'Brien. He also serves on multiple NASA educational product review panels.
In 2001 Dr. Grazier was named the first-ever honorary chairperson for Oakland University's "Week of Champions" (homecoming) celebration, eight years later he won OU's Odyssey Award given to the alumni whose life most typifies the university's motto: To Seek Virtue and Knowledge.
