Paul Dalba, a researcher at the SETI Institute and 51 Pegasi b Fellow of the Heising-Simons Foundation, leads the Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass Survey (GOT ’EM), a program at Keck Observatory and Lick Observatory to determine the masses of exoplanets and also an astronomer for the citizen science program of Unistellar.
Lori Fenton, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute since 2006 whose primary research interests include aeolian geomorphology (how wind shapes a planet’s surface) on Venus, Earth, Mars, and Titan; recent and ongoing climate changes; and the mobility of wind-blown sand and dust.
Agata Zupanska is a plant space biologist with an extensive experience in spaceflight experiments, including experiments launched to the ISS and performed on parabolic flights or starfighter jets. Before joining the SETI Institute, she worked for many years at the UF Space Plants Lab with Dr. Ferl and Dr. Paul. Her research focuses on plant responses to deep space environments, notably the spaceflight microgravity and cosmic ionizing radiation. This will advance our understanding of the limits of terrain life and contribute to designing plant habitats for human spaceflight exploration to search for life elsewhere.
Chenoa Tremblay, a researcher who joined the SETI Institute this year as a radio astronomer, is working on the new Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometric Cluster (COSMIC) for the Jansky Very Large Array designed to complete an all-sky search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She also leads a team that studies the search for life at low radio frequencies using telescopes in Australia.