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January Meeting: The Legacy of Arecibo’s Planetary Radar System

Name: January Meeting: The Legacy of Arecibo’s Planetary Radar System
Start: 2022-01-27T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2022-01-27T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Zoom

January 27, 2022 @ 7:30 pm–9:00 pm EST

Alessondra Springmann is a planetary science PhD candidate at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, studying meteorites, comets, and asteroids. She will be discussing her previous work at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico using the megawatt planetary radar system to search for near earth asteroids, as well as the legacy of Arecibo and the future of the observatory.

Alessondra has a BA in astrophysics from Wellesley College and an MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, and is an award-winning educator and speaker. In her first years of graduate school, she worked on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. In her spare time, she hikes, sews face masks, and herds cats. You can find more about Alessondra at sondy.com or twitter.com/sondy.

Zoom session opens at 7:00 pm for meet and greet, with the lecture starting at 7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.