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| Born | Carrie Rosemary Nugent 1984 (age 40–41) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
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| Institutions | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center Olin College |
| Thesis | Solar Radiation and Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling and New Measurements of the Yarkovsky Effect (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.
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]
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]
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]
Nugent, Carrie (2017). Asteroid Hunters. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 9781471162398.
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