Each year the Observatories organizes a series of public lectures on current astronomical topics. These lectures are given by astronomers from the Carnegie Observatories as well as other research ...

Alan Rooney, of Yale's Department of Geology & Geophysics, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on Feb. 15, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, ...

Barbara Cohen, Planetary Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will present her lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar ...

Sarah Hörst, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University's Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, will present her lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus as ...

Cian Wilson is a Computational Scientist at DTM. He received his Ph.D. in computational physics from the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at the Imperial College in London. Prior to joining ...

Jonathan Wynn, currently on sabbatical from the University of South Florida where he is an associate professor in the School of Geosciences, will give a talk titled “Rapid sea-ice melt, freshwater ...

Nina Fedoroff is the first to clone and characterize maize transposons, or "jumping genes." With this pioneering work, Fedoroff advanced with molecular methods the genetic discoveries that Carnegie ...

Rebecca Oppenheimer, curator at the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics, will give a talk titled "First and Second Generation High Contrast Imaging Experiments for ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Jason Kalirai, an associate astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute, will give a talk titled "Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 19, 2017, in the ...

Tuve Fellow Geoffrey Abers, the William and Katherine Snee Professor in Geological Sciences at Cornell Engineering, will present the Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellow Lecture at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road ...

Christelle Wauthier, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled "Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations" at 2 p.m.