Carrie Nugent

Short description: American physicist and science communicator

Carrie Nugent

Born|

Carrie Rosemary Nugent

Alma mater| University of California, Los Angeles
Scientific career
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.

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Research and career
* 2.1 Public engagement
* 2.2 Awards and honours
* 2.3 Books
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Early life and education

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]

## Research and career

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]

### Public engagement

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]

### Awards and honours

* 2012 NEOWISE Team NASA Group Achievement Award
* 2013 8801 Nugent named in her honour[26]
* 2017 Mira Costa High School Alumni Hall of Fame[1][2]
* 2018 TED Senior Fellow[27]
* 2019 Carl Sagan Medal[14][28]

### Books

Nugent, Carrie (2017). Asteroid Hunters. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 9781471162398.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hall Of Fame – My blog" (in en). http://miracostaalumni.com/hall-of-fame/.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Mira Costa honors six more distinguished alumni" (in en). September 21, 2017. https://tbrnews.com/news/manhattan_beach/mira-costa-honors-six-more-distinguished-alumni/article_e7a1f2d0-9d72-11e7-bfd4-fb17ea916382.html.
3. ↑ Hess, Peter. "Asteroid Hunter Carrie Nugent Is Trying to Save the World" (in en). https://www.inverse.com/article/31473-carrie-nugent-asteroid-hunter-ted.
4. ↑ "Biography of Carrie Nugent for Appearances, Speaking Engagements". https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Carrie+Nugent/399818.
5. ↑ Nugent, Carolyn Rosemary (2013). Solar Radiation and Near-Earth Asteroids: Thermophysical Modeling and New Measurements of the Yarkovsky Effect (Thesis). UCLA.
6. ↑ "We must keep searching the sky!". http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/carrie-nugent-interview.
7. ↑ "Instructors – Summer App Space" (in en-US). http://summerappspace.com/employees/instructors/.
8. ↑ "Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience". https://www.lpi.usra.edu/features/112415/neowise/.
9. ↑ "» Vermin of the sky". http://live.iop-pp01.agh.sleek.net/2017/03/26/vermin-of-the-sky/.
10. ↑ Insider, Ariel Schwartz, Business. "An asteroid hunter reveals how she finds the space rocks that could destroy earth". https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-be-an-asteroid-hunter-2016-6.
11. ↑ Wolfe, Alexandra (2017-05-26). "Tales of an Asteroid Hunter" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tales-of-an-asteroid-hunter-1495811109.
12. ↑ sara.cardine@latimes.com, Sara Cardine. "Asteroid's name skyrockets across social media". https://www.latimes.com/tsn-vsl-asteroids-name-skyrockets-across-social-media-20150415-story.html.
13. ↑ "Influx of New Faculty Join Olin College of Engineering | Olin College". http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2018/influx-new-faculty-join-olin-college-engineering/.
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Olin College Professor Carrie Nugent Awarded Carl Sagan Medal | Olin College". http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2019/olin-college-professor-carrie-nugent-awarded-carl-sagan-medal/.
15. ↑ Fornoff, Marcheta. "An 'asteroid hunter' shares her job description". https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/26/asteroid-hunter.
16. ↑ "Mass Media Fellows Describe Their Experiences" (in en). https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200811/mediafellow.cfm.
17. ↑ D'Arcy, Patrick (2016-01-05). "21 Rising Stars To Watch in 2016". https://fellowsblog.ted.com/21-rising-stars-to-watch-in-2016-f56c11958963.
18. ↑ Nugent, Carrie (in en), Adventures of an asteroid hunter, https://www.ted.com/talks/carrie_nugent_adventures_of_an_asteroid_hunter, retrieved 2019-06-06
19. ↑ "Carrie Nugent" (in en). https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Carrie-Nugent/2115154005.
20. ↑ "Asteroid Hunters" (in en). https://guardianbookshop.com/asteroid-hunters-476661.html.
21. ↑ TED-Ed (2017-10-16), The first asteroid ever discovered - Carrie Nugent, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMWqOfbGME, retrieved 2019-06-06
22. ↑ "About" (in en-US). https://www.listentospacepod.com/about-1.
23. ↑ Singer, Kelsi (2015-09-24). "Great New Science Podcast by Dr. Carrie Nugent" (in en). https://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/great-new-science-podcast-by-dr-carrie-nugent/.
24. ↑ "Carrie Nugent" (in en). http://www.planetary.org/connect/our-experts/profiles/carrie-nugent.html.
25. ↑ "(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" (in en). https://jeopardyquestions.com/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.
26. ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8801#content.
27. ↑ "Meet the 2018 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows" (in en). 2018-01-09. https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-2018-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows/.
28. ↑ "DPS Announces 2019 Prize Winners | American Astronomical Society". https://aas.org/posts/news/2019/05/dps-announces-2019-prize-winners.

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