Wechsler’s cosmology research investigates dark energy, dark matter, galaxy formation, and the growth of structure in the universe.[11][12][13][14][15] She has pursued many collaborative research projects in the course of which she has served as Co-Spokesperson for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration (2014-2018)[16][17][18][19] and has worked on the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration[20] and the Dark Sky Simulations on the Titan Supercomputer.[21][22] She founded the Satellites Around Galactic Areas (SAGA) Survey with Marla Geha,[23][24] and helped initiate the Dark Energy Survey in 2004.[24][25]
Sharing her expertise with the general public, Wechsler has conveyed her passion for physics in a range of media. In 2016, she appeared on the BBC show Horizon: The Mystery of Dark Energy,[32] and the Science Channel program called Space's Deepest Secrets: Secret History of the Big Bang.[33] In 2012, she spoke on the PBS series Science Bytes: Dark Matters[34][35]
Wechsler also collaborated with the artist Oxossi Ayofemi on an art exhibit entitled Black Matter, exhibited from July 2018 to January 2020 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The show combined discussions about the elusive nature of the universe's dark matter with notions of presence and absence in African American culture.[36]
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