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American physicist and science communicator
Carrie Nugent (born 1984) is an
assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science at
Olin College . She studies
near-Earth objects . She is also a popular science communicator, and is a Senior
TED Fellow . The
asteroid
8801 Nugent was named after her.
Early life and education
Nugent studied at
Mira Costa High School , graduating in the class of 2002.
[1]
[2] She earned an undergraduate degree in
physics .
[3] She studied geophysics at
University of California, Los Angeles , and earned her PhD in 2013.
[4] She was supervised by
Jean-Luc Margot and investigated the
Yarkovsky effect .
[5] She served as an
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) Fellow from 2015.
[6] She worked at the Summer App Space, a
Los Angeles based apprenticeship for people to learn programming whilst working on space projects.
[7]
Research and career
Nugent worked with the Near-Earth Object part of the
NASA
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer , known as
NEOWISE .
[8]
[9] She was part of the
Near-Earth Object Camera asteroid hunting teams.
[10] For this, Nugent was awarded the
NASA Group Achievement Award . She believes
asteroid impact is the only
natural disaster that we can prevent.
[11] In 2015 she named an asteroid after
Malala Yousafzai .
[12]
Nugent joined the faculty at
Olin College as an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science in 2018.
[13]
[14] She works on
asteroid detection, and focuses on the identification of asteroids that could be a threat to
Earth .
[15]
Public engagement
Nugent was a
AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 2008.
[16] She was selected as a TED Fellow in 2016, and a Senior TED Fellow in 2018.
[17] Nugent delivered a
TED talk Adventures of an asteroid hunter at the
TED conference in 2016.
[18] After her
TED talk , Nugent wrote the book Asteroid Hunters with
Simon & Schuster .
[19]
[20] The talk was also used in a
TED-Ed video.
[21] In her spare time she produces the podcast SpacePod.
[22] The podcast involves short episodes (15 minute in length) featuring relaxed conversations with
space explorers .
[23] She serves as one of
The Planetary Society experts.
[24] A question about Nugent's research was once included in
Jeopardy! .
[25]
Awards and honours
Books
Nugent, Carrie (2017). Asteroid Hunters . Simon & Schuster Ltd.
ISBN
9781471162398 .
References
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"Hall Of Fame – My blog" . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"Mira Costa honors six more distinguished alumni" . The Beach Reporter . September 21, 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-07 .
^ Hess, Peter.
"Asteroid Hunter Carrie Nugent Is Trying to Save the World" . Inverse . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"Biography of Carrie Nugent for Appearances, Speaking Engagements" . www.allamericanspeakers.com . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Nugent, Carolyn Rosemary (2013).
Solar Radiation and Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling and New Measurements of the Yarkovsky Effect (Thesis). UCLA.
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"We must keep searching the sky!" . IPAC . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"Instructors – Summer App Space" . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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"Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience" . www.lpi.usra.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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"» Vermin of the sky" . live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ Insider, Ariel Schwartz, Business.
"An asteroid hunter reveals how she finds the space rocks that could destroy earth" . Business Insider . Retrieved 2019-06-08 . CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
^ Wolfe, Alexandra (2017-05-26).
"Tales of an Asteroid Hunter" . Wall Street Journal .
ISSN
0099-9660 . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
^ sara.cardine@latimes.com, Sara Cardine.
"Asteroid's name skyrockets across social media" . latimes.com . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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"Influx of New Faculty Join Olin College of Engineering | Olin College" . www.olin.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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b
"Olin College Professor Carrie Nugent Awarded Carl Sagan Medal | Olin College" . www.olin.edu . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Fornoff, Marcheta.
"An 'asteroid hunter' shares her job description" . www.mprnews.org . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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"Mass Media Fellows Describe Their Experiences" . www.aps.org . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ D'Arcy, Patrick (2016-01-05).
"21 Rising Stars To Watch in 2016" . TED Fellows . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Nugent, Carrie,
Adventures of an asteroid hunter , retrieved 2019-06-06
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"Carrie Nugent" . Simon & Schuster . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"Asteroid Hunters" . guardianbookshop.com . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ TED-Ed (2017-10-16),
The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent , retrieved 2019-06-06
^
"About" . Spacepod . Archived from
the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
^ Singer, Kelsi (2015-09-24).
"Great New Science Podcast by Dr. Carrie Nugent" . Women in Planetary Science: Female Scientists on Careers, Research, Space Science, and Work/Life Balance . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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"Carrie Nugent" . www.planetary.org . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"(Cara Santa Maria gives the clue.) Caltech scientist Carrie Nugent explained how to track & predict the impact these would have if on a collision course with Earth; the method used in the movie Armageddon is not very practical - JeopardyQuestions.com" . jeopardyquestions.com . Retrieved 2019-06-08 .
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"JPL Small-Body Database Browser" . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"Meet the 2018 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows" . TED Blog . 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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"DPS Announces 2019 Prize Winners | American Astronomical Society" . aas.org . Retrieved 2019-06-06 .
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