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David’s TEDx talk is now available!

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David discusses the Earth as being a living system, examining it through its history and how life and humans have shaped and changed Earth’s appearance over time, in a TEDx talk titled “Terra Sapiens: Planetary Changes of the fourth kind”.

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EVENT IN DC! Monday August 25th 1-3pm EST: NASA’S NEW HORIZONS PLUTO MISSION. Not in DC? Click on me for information on how to stream the event!

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The 1-2 p.m. event will feature a panel discussion with:

  • Jim Green, director, NASA’s Planetary Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
  • Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  • Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

The 2-3 p.m. event will include several New Horizons science team members giving personal accounts of their work during the Voyager Neptune encounter and their new assignments on the Pluto mission. Panel participants include:

  • Moderator: David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
  • Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Bonnie Buratti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
  • Jeffrey Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
  • John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

New Horizons Panel Event!