Ariel Waldman | Upward Mobility for Citizen Scientists
Bio | Ariel Waldman creates multidisciplinary, creative projects that explore the world below our feet and beyond our atmosphere.
Ariel is the chair of the council for NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program. She previously led a five-week expedition to Antarctica to film microscopic life under the ice. Ariel produces and hosts YouTube shows, including a show about the science of sci-fi on Adam Savage’s Tested, as well as her own channel of science adventures. She is the co-author of a congressionally-requested National Academy of Sciences report on the future of human spaceflight and the author of the book What’s It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who’ve Been There. Ariel is the global director of Science Hack Day, a grassroots endeavor to prototype things with science that’s in 30 countries. She is a National Geographic Explorer and received an honor from the Obama White House as a Champion of Change in citizen science. As an art school graduate, Ariel's mission is to build multidisciplinary collaborations in science.
Links | website | twitter | TED talk
Intro | Ariel is a trailblazing citizen scientist, creating paths and onramps to the scientific process for the world to follow. She’s brought this participatory ethos to working in the depths of space and, more recently, under the ice in Antarctica. Always worth following, her ongoing adventures are a testament to the power of a curious and creative spirit.
Ariel traces her path from art school to an unexpected job NASA to running an Antarctic expedition. pic.twitter.com/IGQgHAUVsj
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How Ariel researched and wrote her entire book (!) in an excel spreadsheet: pic.twitter.com/2XekF5wyYM
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"There's really no pathway for citizen scientists... to become as awesome as they want to become."
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On the need for upward mobility in citizen science: pic.twitter.com/XgzLiuhqWd