Carrie Nugent Explained

Carrie Nugent
Alma Mater:University of California, Los Angeles
Workplaces:Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
Olin College
Birth Name:Carrie Rosemary Nugent
Thesis Url:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cw4r38w
Thesis Title:Solar Radiation and Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling and New Measurements of the Yarkovsky Effect
Thesis Year:2013
Doctoral Advisor:Jean-Luc Margot

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] She earned an undergraduate degree in physics.[2] She studied geophysics at University of California, Los Angeles, and earned her PhD in 2013.[3] She was supervised by Jean-Luc Margot and investigated the Yarkovsky effect.[4] She served as an Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) Fellow from 2015.[5] She worked at the Summer App Space, a Los Angeles based apprenticeship for people to learn programming whilst working on space projects.[6]

Research and career

Nugent worked with the Near-Earth Object part of the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, known as NEOWISE.[7] [8] She was part of the Near-Earth Object Camera asteroid hunting teams.[9] For this, Nugent was awarded the NASA Group Achievement Award. She believes asteroid impact is the only natural disaster that we can prevent.[10] In 2015 she named an asteroid after Malala Yousafzai.[11]

Nugent joined the faculty at Olin College as an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science in 2018.[12] She works on asteroid detection, and focuses on the identification of asteroids that could be a threat to Earth.[13]

Public engagement

Nugent was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 2008.[14] She was selected as a TED Fellow in 2016, and a Senior TED Fellow in 2018.[15] Nugent delivered a TED talk Adventures of an asteroid hunter at the TED conference in 2016. After her TED talk, Nugent wrote the book Asteroid Hunters with Simon & Schuster.[16] [17] The talk was also used in a TED-Ed video. In her spare time she produces the podcast SpacePod.[18] The podcast involves short episodes (15 minute in length) featuring relaxed conversations with space explorers.[19] She serves as one of The Planetary Society experts.[20] A question about Nugent's research was once included in Jeopardy!.[21]

Awards and honours

Books

Book: Nugent, Carrie. Asteroid Hunters. Simon & Schuster Ltd. 2017. 9781471162398.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hall Of Fame – My blog. en. 2019-06-06.
  2. Web site: Asteroid Hunter Carrie Nugent Is Trying to Save the World. Hess. Peter. Inverse. en. 2019-06-06.
  3. Web site: Biography of Carrie Nugent for Appearances, Speaking Engagements. www.allamericanspeakers.com. 2019-06-06.
  4. Solar Radiation and Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling and New Measurements of the Yarkovsky Effect. UCLA. 2013. en. Carolyn Rosemary. Nugent.
  5. Web site: We must keep searching the sky!. IPAC. 2019-06-06.
  6. Web site: Instructors – Summer App Space. en-US. 2019-06-08.
  7. Web site: Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience. www.lpi.usra.edu. 2019-06-08.
  8. Web site: » Vermin of the sky. live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net. 2019-06-08.
  9. Web site: An asteroid hunter reveals how she finds the space rocks that could destroy earth. Insider. Ariel Schwartz, Business. Business Insider. 2019-06-08.
  10. News: Tales of an Asteroid Hunter. Wolfe. Alexandra. 2017-05-26. Wall Street Journal. 2019-06-08. en-US. 0099-9660.
  11. Web site: Asteroid's name skyrockets across social media. sara.cardine@latimes.com. Sara Cardine. latimes.com. 2019-06-08.
  12. Web site: Influx of New Faculty Join Olin College of Engineering Olin College. www.olin.edu. 2019-06-08.
  13. Web site: An 'asteroid hunter' shares her job description. Fornoff. Marcheta. www.mprnews.org. 2019-06-08.
  14. Web site: Mass Media Fellows Describe Their Experiences. www.aps.org. en. 2019-06-06.
  15. Web site: 21 Rising Stars To Watch in 2016. D'Arcy. Patrick. 2016-01-05. TED Fellows. 2019-06-06.
  16. Web site: Carrie Nugent. Simon & Schuster. en. 2019-06-06.
  17. Web site: Asteroid Hunters. guardianbookshop.com. en. 2019-06-06.
  18. Web site: About. Spacepod. en-US. 2019-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190607003102/https://www.listentospacepod.com/about-1. 2019-06-07. dead.
  19. Web site: Great New Science Podcast by Dr. Carrie Nugent. Singer. Kelsi. 2015-09-24. Women in Planetary Science: Female Scientists on Careers, Research, Space Science, and Work/Life Balance. en. 2019-06-08.
  20. Web site: Carrie Nugent. www.planetary.org. en. 2019-06-06.
  21. Web site: (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. en. 2019-06-08.
  22. Web site: JPL Small-Body Database Browser. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. 2019-06-06.
  23. Web site: September 21, 2017. Mira Costa honors six more distinguished alumni. 2020-07-07. The Beach Reporter. en.
  24. Web site: Meet the 2018 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows. 2018-01-09. TED Blog. en. 2019-06-06.
  25. Web site: Olin College Professor Carrie Nugent Awarded Carl Sagan Medal Olin College. www.olin.edu. 2019-06-06.
  26. Web site: DPS Announces 2019 Prize Winners American Astronomical Society. aas.org. 2019-06-06.

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