Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, Space scientist and presenter, Science Innovation Ltd, giving a talk entitled "Moon: Past, present and future", on the Main Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
What has the moon ever done for us? Come on a journey through space and time and gain a better understanding of our amazing partner in space. Join Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock as she shares her passion for the subject and makes the case for why we should all be lunar fanatics. In this talk, Maggie will explore how we think the moon was formed, how we have celebrated it, and how what appears to be an inert lump of rock in space may be responsible for life here on Earth as well as many other things that we take for granted. Finally discover how our destiny may be very much tied into our future use of the moon. For science, exploration, future colonies and a possible gateway to the beyond, Maggie shows that our longstanding partnership with the moon will continue to be strong well into the future. Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE's passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you don’t need a brain the size of a small planet to understand, participate in and enjoy science. She has spent much of her career making novel, bespoke instrumentation ranging from hand held land mine detectors to an optical subsystem for the James Webb Space Telescope. Among her many TV and radio appearances, she is currently presenting Sky at Night on BBC 4 with Chris She has worked on many projects in private industry, academia, and in government. From 1996 to 1999 she worked at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, a branch of the UK Ministry of Defence. Initially, she worked as a systems scientist on aircraft missile warning systems, and from 1997 to 1999 she was a project manager developing hand-held instruments to detect landmines. In 1999, Aderin-Pocock returned to Imperial College on a fellowship from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to work with the group developing a high-resolution spectrograph for the Gemini telescope in Chile.
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