NASA EXPLORERS: APOLLO

Listen to NASA Explorers: Apollo

NASA Explorers: Apollo is a podcast about the Moon and the people who explore it. For the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, my team and I wanted to highlight the human interest stories behind that historic accomplishment, while also increasing awareness of how the Apollo missions continue to propel today's scientists forward. This audio series incorporated people-centric stories, data sonification, natural sound, original music and art, sound design and stories submitted by people from all over the world. I co-produced the episodes and oversaw the audience engagement and data sonification elements of the campaign.

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SHARE YOUR APOLLO STORY WITH NASA

Share Your Apollo Story with NASA

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, we invited the public to share memories of the Moon landing with NASA. To tell the story of the Moon landing's global and cultural impact, I knew we needed to get our audience involved. We asked our online communities to email audio recordings to NASA, which we would feature in the NASA Explorers: Apollo podcast and share on social media. We received more than 300 stories from people all over the world! People shared vivid memories of that day, as well as their hopes for future space exploration, and it was amazing to hear from so many people who had such personal connections to NASA. We celebrated these stories by featuring them in every episode of NASA Explorers: Apollo, sharing audiograms on social media and creating an oral history playlist where they all can live.

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GOOGLE ARTS + CULTURE

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I collaborated with NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio to showcase its data visualizations in a Google Arts and Culture digital exhibit. I helped select the featured visualizations and I wrote the descriptions for the themes that guide the visitor through the exhibit. Throughout this project I worked closely with the Google Arts and Culture team to tell the story of the Scientific Visualization Studio. In many ways this exhibit is a reminder that science is about creativity, as well as a celebration of the magic that results when artists and scientists work in concert.

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DESIGN SPRINTS

About Design Sprints

I started and lead a Design Sprint program within the Office of Communications at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. A Design Sprint is a five-day process for solving problems and testing new ideas. The process allows teams to see how customers react before spending time and resources on building a new product. It's also a smarter, more respectful, and more effective way of solving problems that brings out the best contributions of everyone on the team. So far I've facilitated Design Sprints with the Hubble Space Telescope communications team and the NASA Goddard social media team.

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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

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As an MBA student, I served as a strategy consultant for the University of Missouri Extension. Wind energy development is a contentious issue in many rural Missouri communities, and the University of Missouri Extension wanted a toolkit that would guide citizens and local governments through the decisionmaking process. My team and I developed a methodology and conducted research that resulted in the creation of a public-facing resource designed to address the unique civic engagement needs of rural communities.

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NASA SOCIAL MEDIA

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No matter where you are in the solar system, our Pale Blue Dot takes your breath away. This #CarlSaganDay, we'd like to share these humbling views of Earth from near and far: from here at home, the Moon, Mars, Saturn and beyond. . "There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 Image credits Blue Marble: NASA Earth Observatory Earthrise: NASA Mars: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU Saturn: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Pale Blue Dot: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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The Sun is not silent. The low, pulsing hum of our star's heartbeat allows scientists to peer inside, revealing huge rivers of solar material flowing, along with waves, loops and eruptions. This helps scientists study what can’t be seen. Listen in: https://t.co/J4ZC3hUwtL pic.twitter.com/lw30NIEob2

— NASA (@NASA) July 25, 2018

For @MelindaGates, #Apollo11 was a family celebration. Her father was an engineer for an aerospace company that helped NASA send humans to the Moon.

Listen to Melinda’s story and hear others from people all over the world: https://t.co/9z5xnwPIVZ pic.twitter.com/Q8lquyYLvJ

— NASA Moon (@NASAMoon) July 23, 2019

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Today's @dictionarycom Word of the Day is "astrobleme," a scar on Earth's surface produced by the impact of a meteorite or asteroid. Lake Manicouagan in northern Quebec, Canada, lies in one of the largest impact craters still preserved on Earth's surface. The lake itself surrounds a central uplift of the impact structure, which is about 70 kilometers in diameter and composed of broken fragments of minerals and rock. Overtime glaciation and other erosional processes have reduced the size of the crater. The impact that formed Manicouagan is thought to have occurred about 212 million years ago, and some scientists believe it may have been responsible for a mass extinction that wiped out more than half of all living species. Today Lake Manicouagan serves as a reservoir and is one of Quebec's most important regions for Atlantic salmon fishing. Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team #astrobleme #manicouagan #earth #science #wordoftheday

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These cosmic sparklers light up the night sky. 🎇✨

Happy Fourth of July, from all of us at NASA Goddard! This is actually a map of the entire sky in X-rays recorded by NICER, a payload on the @Space_Station. Here's how this image was created: https://t.co/88eJMF0oOl pic.twitter.com/CeT0ddXnS0

— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) July 4, 2019

When you think of the Moon, what comes to mind? What are you looking forward to as we prepare to send humans back to the Moon? 🌙👩‍🚀

🎙 Record yourself (or interview a loved one) and your story could get featured in a new NASA audio series! More info: https://t.co/g6NQROmbUw pic.twitter.com/oQYEsJecsO

— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) May 11, 2019

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In honor of Cassini's Grand Finale at Saturn tomorrow, we're looking back on a very big discovery on a very small moon. When Cassini arrived at Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, it saw curtains of icy material venting into space. Then, using the Composite Infrared Spectrometer aboard the spacecraft, scientists discovered that Enceladus's south pole was much warmer than expected. The strange temperature patterns on Enceladus suggested that the small, icy moon was up to something. After years of analyzing data from the CIRS instrument and others, it was clear that Enceladus harbors a liquid-water ocean beneath its surface. Later evidence indicated that this remarkable moon might have hydrothermal vents — something previously known to exist only on Earth. As Enceladus travels in its elliptical orbit about Saturn, the moon flexes as it gets nearer to its parent planet, then farther, then nearer again. Four great cracks near its south pole — “tiger stripes," seen here in blue — spread, then squeeze and grind. Warm salt water, gases and minerals erupt through those fractures in the miles-thick ice shell and blast into space, exiting the moon's surface at 800 miles per hour. When the Cassini orbiter plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn on Sept. 15, a group of NASA Goddard scientists will be among those waiting for the spacecraft’s last long-distance ping. That bittersweet signal will mark the end of an era for the team, which has devoted two decades to operating the CIRS instrument. . . Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #Cassini #GrandFinale #Saturn #NASA #Enceladus #space #science

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