LETTER: Astrophysics Graduate Students at TMT Partner Institutions Express Concern

Dear astronomy community,

We write to express concern about recent events on the Maunakea summit with regards to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). We call upon the astronomy community to recognize the broader historical context of this conflict, and to denounce the criminalization of the protectors on Maunakea. We urge the TMT collaboration and the government of Hawaiʻi to desist from further arresting or charging protectors, and to remove military and law enforcement personnel from the summit.

Please join us by signing this letter (using this link) and by committing to action (examples are listed below).

Construction of TMT on Maunakea was scheduled to resume Monday, July 15, 2019. On July 14, 2019, AP reported that unarmed National Guard units will be involved in transporting personnel and supplies, and enforcing road closures. Exact details of the situation on the mountain are dynamic, but as of Wednesday, July 17, 2019, the authors of this letter were alarmed to see multiple confirmations on social media that local law enforcement has begun arresting native Hawaiians who are peacefully occupying the summit and blocking the road to the construction site.

The authors of this letter want to pause and recognize the significance of TMT in determining future scientific pursuits within mainstream academic astronomy. We want to acknowledge the investment that so many colleagues within the astronomy community have made towards the project’s completion. We write today not to place a value judgment on the future of TMT on Maunakea, but to question the methods by which we are getting the telescope on the mountain in the first place. We ask that the community pause and consider what it means that, armed or not, the military and the police have become involved in the project’s deliberations with the protectors of Maunakea.

We want to echo the work of Indigenous scholars and communities in pointing out how US-based histories of conquest have been exploitative and destructive to Indigenous ways of knowing (science) and being (cosmology) in the continental US and in the Hawaiian context. These histories progressed in lock-step with the development of western “sciences” of personhood: of who and/or what is human, and therefore who must be subhuman, and thus must be subject to control via mechanisms of policing, incarceration, and military violence. As Hawaiian scientist Aurora Kagawa-Viviani writes, “To me, practices of science in its present form smell a lot like the American Manifest Destiny associated with terrible loss for so many indigenous communities.”[1]

We evoke this history because we recognize that the events surrounding TMT occur within a context of US-based injustice in this particular historical moment, including but not limited to the ongoing disproportionate policing and incarceration of members of Indigenous, Black, and brown communities in the US, and the detention of refugee migrants in concentration camps at the US border. To be explicit: institutions of policing, incarceration and militarization have a long history of being used to harm marginalized, racialized communities in this country.

As astronomers, we recognize that our science relies on access to resources; we also recognize the singularity of Maunakea as an ideal observation site in the northern hemisphere. We want to acknowledge that there are many senior members of our international community who have devoted their careers to the telescope design and program, and that many junior members have the futures of their careers riding on the telescope’s completion. We also recognize how this issue has been deeply divisive and disruptive within the Kānaka Maoli community.

We realize that members of the astronomy community see the exigence in starting the construction as soon as possible for a number of complex political and economic reasons. However, we ask whether expedience must come through violation of consent and leverage of apparatuses of state-sanctioned violence. We ask the community to consider whether the future of our field is worth the damage to our relationship with Kānaka Maoli by continuing to criminalize Maunakea protectors on their ancestral land. To quote Prof. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, we ask that astronomers also “think of the lasting consequences for us of being a community that partners with the military and the police on indigenous land and then publicly brands itself as being about wonder and the majestic.”[2]

To reiterate our demand at the beginning of this letter, we ask that members of the astronomy community leverage their power to oppose further violence against Maunakea protectors. We ask that the community takes this action as a first step towards a future in which, as Kanaka scholar Sara Kahanamoku writes, “the practice of science is truly ethical: where human rights, including the rights of indigenous people to self-determination, are upheld through the practice of science.”[3]

Below we present a(n incomplete) list of actionable items and further resources:

Actionable items:

Sign in support of this letter (link here) and the following demands:
Ask the TMT collaboration and the Hawaiian government to remove military / police presence from the mauna, to stop arrests, and to not charge protectors who have already been arrested
Ask the TMT collaboration to engage protectors in discussion with an aim to reach consensus
Watch the livestream and bear witness to events on the mauna: https://www.facebook.com/Kanaeokana/videos/485669822180209/
Contribute to the bail fund for the kūpuna (Kānaka Maoli elders) and their assistants who have already been arrested: http://hawaiicommunitybailfund.org/
Donate to KAHEA, a community-based organization that is also helping with legal funds for Maunakea protectors: http://kahea.org/

Citations and further resources:

“Redirecting the lens onto the culture of mainstream science” by Aurora Kagawa-Viviani
“An Urgent Plea to Fellow Astronomers” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
“The fight for Mauna Kea and the future of science” by Sara Segura Kahanamoku
“We live in the future: come join us” by Brian Kamaoli Kuwada
“Multicultural Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Struggle in Hawai’i: the Politics of Astronomy on Mauna a Wākea” by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
“Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

This letter was written by astrophysics graduate students at TMT partner institutions. We acknowledge the relative privilege that we have even as graduate students at these institutions to openly speak out about our concerns with the process of telescope construction. We want to acknowledge our colleagues who are in similar or more junior career stages, whose career prospects are more closely tied to the construction of the telescope, and who may be unable to fully express their concerns and criticisms about this project. While many members of the astronomy community have openly opposed aspects of telescope construction in the last several days, we ask that the community also collectively considers how certain members have been silenced, and how that also speaks to the complex, interlocking structures of power within academic astronomy.

Finally, we acknowledge some of our positionalities as settlers occupying unceded ancestral territories of multiple Indigenous groups on the continental US (including but not limited to that of the Chochenyo-Ohlone people and the Tongva-Gabrielino people).

We invite the astronomy community to suggest more links and ideas on how to divest from using state-sanctioned violence in the construction of facilities for our field’s future. Again, please consider co-signing this letter to show your support and provide ideas, and using the power available to you by your positionality to fulfill one or more of the action items above.

(Letters, commentaries and opinion pieces are not edited by Big Island Now.)

Signed,

Signatories from TMT affiliated institutions:

Sal Wanying Fu (Incoming G1 at UC Berkeley and NSF graduate fellow)
Mia de los Reyes (G2 at Caltech and NSF graduate fellow)
Sarafina Nance (PhD student at UC Berkeley and NSF graduate fellow)
José Flores Velázquez (G2 at UC Irvine and NSF graduate fellow)
Francisco Mercado (PhD student at UC Irvine)
Thea Faridani (Incoming G1 at UCLA)
Hilding Neilson (CTLA Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto)
Dillon Dong (G3 at Caltech)
Sophia Nasr (PhD student at UC Irvine)
Ellianna S. Abrahams (PhD student at UC Berkeley, NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Kyle M. Kabasares (PhD student at UC Irvine)
Keri Hoadley (Post-doc at Caltech)
Shreyas Vissapragada (PhD student at Caltech, NSF graduate fellow and PD Soros fellow)
Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Christina Manzano-King (PhD student at UC Riverside)
Sean Pike (PhD student at Caltech)
Brittany Miles (PhD student at UC Santa Cruz, NSF graduate fellow)
Ethan Jahn (PhD student at UC Riverside)
Ashay Patel (Physics PhD student at Caltech)
Brian Lorenz (Incoming G1 at UC Berkeley and NSF graduate fellow)
Elizabeth Ann Collins (BA from UH Mānoa, bachelors in Anthropology; certificate in PACE (Peace and Conflict Education))
Tenley Hutchinson-Smith (PhD student at UC Santa Cruz, Spelman College)
Charles Xu (PhD student at Caltech)
Renee Hlozek (Assistant Professor at University of Toronto)
Emily Martin (Postdoc at UCSC)
Holly Christenson (PhD student at UC Riverside, NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Dr. Bryan Mendez (UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory)
Ekta Patel (Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley)
Nathan Sandford (PhD student at UC Berkeley and NSF graduate fellow)
Suchitra Narayanan (Senior at UC Berkeley)
Aida Behmard (G2 at Caltech and NSF graduate fellow)
Serafina Gajate (Graduate of University of Hawai’i at Hilo (Anthropology and Hawaiian Studies))
Veronica Dike (PhD student at UCLA and NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Adam Trapp (PhD student at UCLA)
Vanshree Bhalotia (PhD student at UH Manoa)
Seyda Ipek (Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Irvine)
Sarah Blunt (PhD student at Caltech)
Yigit Ozcelik (Undergraduate student at University of Toronto)
Briley Lewis (PhD student at UCLA, NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Evan Haze Nuñez (Incoming G1 at Caltech and NSF GRFP Fellow; Cal Poly Pomona)
Jessie Christiansen (Research Scientist, Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
Richard Mebane (PhD student at UCLA)
Peishi Cheng (PhD student at Caltech)
Dan Zevin (Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley)
Anthony Pahl (PhD student at UCLA)
Shea Charles (Student at University of Hawaii at Mānoa)
Charles Goullad (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Anonymous PhD student in the Office of Public Health Studies at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; Hui Mauli Ola
Rhondale (Ron) Tso (PhD student at Caltech, NSF Graduate Fellow, Ford Fellow, and Gates Scholar)
Caleb Caswell-Levy (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Fatima Abdurrahman (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Isabella Trierweiler (PhD student at UCLA)
Aleksey Maro (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Allison DeRego (Undergrad student at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; Native Hawaiian student, We are Mauna Kea)
Karli DeRofo (PhD student of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, Native Hawaiian and Mauna Kea Protector)
Benjamin Zhang (Undergraduate astronomy student at UC Berkeley)
Casey Brinkman (Institute for Astronomy, Ph.D student)
Jenna Samuel (PhD student at UC Davis)
Coral Wheeler (Postdoc at Caltech)
Sara ElShafie (PhD student at University of California, Berkeley; UC Museum of Paleontology)
Jordan Fleming (PhD student at UC Berkeley, Astronomy Department)
Michael Lemmen (Instrument Technician at Subaru Telescope)
Yuping Huang (G1 at Caltech)
Bradford Barker (Post-doctoral scholar, UC Merced)
Keming Zhang (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Steven Giacalone (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Sophie Crisp (PhD student at UCLA and NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Diyala Shihadih (PhD candidate at UC Berkeley)
Piper H (Postdoc at UH Mānoa)
Richard Rath (Associate Professor at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
Hyewon Suh (Postdoctoral researcher at Subaru Telescope)
Kevin Hardegree-Ullman (Postdoc at Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
Monica Aguilar-Scion (RN, BSN from University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Hawaii Pacific Health)
Brittney Onaga (Undergraduate student at UH Mānoa)
Fergus Horrobin (PhD student at University of Toronto)
Adiv Paradise (PhD student at University of Toronto)
Ronald A Lopez (PhD student at UCLA)
Anonymous I.T. Professional (University of Hawaii at Mānoa)
Haley DeTure (Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
Andrian Gajigan (PhD student at University of Hawaii at Mānoa)
Holly Gildea (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Emily Ramey (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
James Huynh (PhD student at UCLA)
Kathleen Tatem (UH Mānoa Physics and Astronomy, UH Institute for Astronomy)
Kimberly Bott (Postdoc Researcher at U. Washington, UH Hilo Alumna)
Jaclyn Pezzato (PhD student at Caltech)
Tara Nash (MS Public Health Specializing in Epidemiology from UH Mānoa, BS Cellular and Molecular Biology and Psychology Minor in Native American Studies)
Maggie Thompson (PhD student at UCSC)
Callie Hood (PhD student at UCSC)
Felipe Ardila (PhD student at UCSC)
Tyler Takaro (PhD student at UCSC)
Helen Kim (PhD student at UCLA)
Aarjit Adhikary (Undergraduate Student at UC Berkeley, Friends of Lick Observatory)
Pratik Gandhi (PhD student at UC Davis)
Sarah Loebman (Hubble postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis)
Emily Tyhurst (PhD student at the University of Toronto; Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Natalie Koski-Karell (Master’s student at UC Berkeley)
Michael Bustillo-Sakhai (M.S. student at UC Berkeley)
Brenna Mockler (PhD student at UCSC)
Nicholas Spano (PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Deno Stelter (Postdoc at UCSC)
AJ Olvera (UG Astro Student at UC Berkeley)
Rebecca Lehman (Undergrad student UC Berkeley)
Nicholas Saunders (Incoming PhD student at University of Hawai’i Mānoa; NASA Ames)
Kevin Hayakawa (PhD student at UCLA)
Garima Raheja (Alumni, UC Berkeley; Guest Researcher at UH Manoa)
Paloma Medina (PhD Candidate at UC Santa Cruz)
Jessica Doppel (PhD student at UC Riverside)

Other signatories:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Assistant Professor of Physics and Core Faculty in Women’s Studies, University of New Hampshire)
Brandon Barker (PhD student at Michigan State University)
Aleksander M. Diamond-Stanic (Assistant Professor at Bates College)
Jenna Freudenburg (PhD student at Ohio State University)
Hannah Fritze (Graduate student at the University of Utah, BA from Wesleyan University)
Profe Jorge Moreno (Assistant Professor at Pomona College)
Lucianne Walkowicz (Astronomer at the Adler Planetarium)
Ramsey Karim (PhD student at UMD)
Alex Riley (PhD student at Texas A&M and NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Alex Natale (Adjunct at Irvine Valley College)
Girish M. Duvvuri (PhD student at CU Boulder)
Jonathan Cohn (PhD student at Texas A&M University)
Susan Kelly (PhD student, University of Connecticut)
Adrian B. Lucy (PhD student at Columbia University and NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Tarini Konchady (PhD student at Texas A&M University)
Samantha Lawler (Assistant Professor at Campion College)
Karl Jaehnig (PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University)
Sarah Horst (Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University)
Natalie Gosnell (Assistant Professor of Physics at Colorado College)
Lynne Jones (Research scientist at University of Washington)
Michael W. Busch (Research scientist at SETI Institute)
Kathy Kentta-Robinson (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon)
Karen Barad (Professor at UCSC, UCSC Science & Justice Research Center)
Samantha Gilbert (PhD student at University of Washington)
Oz Amram (PhD student at Johns Hopkins)
Laura Lopez (Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University)
Caitlin Doughty (PhD student at New Mexico State University)
Megan Davis (Post-bacc researcher at Michigan State University)
Nicolas Garavito-Camargo (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Katie Chamberlain (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Daniel Barringer (Lecturer of Physics at Texas State University)
Mikiala Akau
Ilona Petersen
TilJean Kekua
Sharon Willeford (DOE Teacher for 40 years, We Are MaunaKea)
Justin Konakakino Souza (Triple major Carpentry, Agriculture, Architecture at The Hawaii Community College; Habitat for Humanity)
Alexandra Olaya-Castro (Professor of Physics at University College London)
Spencer Wallace (PhD student at University of Washington)
Tyler Cohen (PhD student at New Mexico Tech)
Joseph A. Guidry (Astronomy and physics undergrad at the University of Texas Austin)
Charles Kuahine, III
Gabrielle Suissa (Research Scientist at GSFC)
Tiffany Pa
Laura Duqette
Divya M. Persaud (PhD student, Space & Climate Physics, University College London)
Charlotte Minsky (Undergraduate Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences major, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nicole Nir (Masters Student in Critical Ethnic Studies at DePaul University, Space Studies Program Participant at the International Space University)
Alessondra Springmann (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Beth Johnson (Master’s student at San Jose State University, SETI Institute)
Nora Shipp (PhD student at University of Chicago)
Goni Halevi (PhD student at Princeton University)
Kaila Nathaniel (MSc student at the University of Bonn, Native Hawaiian)
Allison Erena (Undergrad from Smith College)
Jessica Birky (PhD student at University of Washington, NSF graduate fellow)
Harsh Kumar (PhD student at IIT Bombay)
Franco Vazzav (Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Bologna, Italy)
Professor Anna Watts (University of Amsterdam)
Sarah Jane Schmidt (Postdoctoral Fellow at Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics- Potsdam (AIP))
Tana Joseph (Postdoc at University of Manchester)
Shannon Denning
Melina Thévenot (astronomy (community science) volunteer located in Germany)
Tristan M. Wolfe (PhD student, U. of Denver)
Naomi Robertson (PhD student at University of Oxford)
Dr. Ashley Spindler (Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Hertfordshire)
Kyla Smith (BA Asian American Studies student at Scripps College, Pomona College Dept of Physics and Astronomy)
Rachel Frisbie (PhD student at Michigan State University)
Julie Rathbun (Planetary Science Institute)
David Kipping (Professor at Columbia University)
Arthur Loureiro (Post-doc at University College London)
Jonathan Brande (Research Asst., University of Maryland/NASA GSFC)
Aleezah (Post-bacc at the University of Washington)
Jacqueline Monkiewicz (Instructor, Arizona State University)
Michael Tremmel (Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University)
Mallory Molina (Postdoctoral fellow at Montana State)
Elizabeth Teng (Undergraduate at Haverford College)
Hapaki Nakamura
Steven Finkelstein (Faculty at UT Austin)
Elena González Egea (PhD student at University of Hertfordshire)
Olivia Chilcote (Assistant Professor at San Diego State University)
Dr. Emil Rivera-Thorsen (Postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden)
Rachael L. Beaton (Hubble Fellow, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at Princeton University)
Jorge Manes Rubio (Artist in Residence at the European Space Agency)
Brian Nord (Associate Scientist at Fermilab, University of Chicago, KICP)
Sarah Gossan (Postdoctoral fellow at Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA))
Federica Bianco (Assistant Professor at University of Delaware, Visiting Faculty at New York University)
Joey Neilsen (Assistant Professor of Physics at Villanova University)
Sarah Tuttle (Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle)
Osase Omoruyi (BS in Astrophysics from Yale University)
Ian Schanning (Astronomy instructor at Queensborough Community College)
Brandon Boring (Undergraduate student at University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Elizabeth Gutiérrez (Astronomy undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin)
Jake D. Turner (Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University)
Stephanie Bernard (PhD student, The University of Melbourne, ASTRO-3D)
Christopher Agostino (PhD student at Indiana University)
Grant Tremblay (Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón (Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University)
Cathleen Fry (Postdoc at LANL)
Sabine Stanley (Professor at Johns Hopkins University)
Barbara Cohen (Scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center)
Jesse Livezey (Postdoc as Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Erica Smith (Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Dept., Indiana University)
Roger Stabbins (Post-Doc at The Natural History Museum, London)
Meredith Durbin (PhD student at University of Washington)
Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer (Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Western Washington University)
Katie Walsh (Undergraduate student at Lesley University)
Erik Shirokoff (Asst. Professor, U. Chicago Astronomy Dept.)
Evan Mayer (University of Chicago Physics, AB ‘17, Amateur astronomer)
Benjamin Pope (NYU, NASA Sagan Fellow)
Melissa Morris (PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
David Stansby
Grace Olivier (PhD student at The Ohio State University)
Karen Masters (Associate Professor at Haverford College)
Edna Olvera (Astrophysics/education majors at Swarthmore College, Research assistant, Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania)
Claire Dickey (PhD student at Yale University)
Miguel Rebollar (PhD student at University of Houston)
Luca Beale (PhD student at the University of Virginia, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Brenna Robertson (Undergrad at UConn)
Robert Fisher (Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Ivan Ramirez (Professor at Tacoma Community College)
David DeColibus (PhD student at New Mexico State University, Apache Point Observatory)
Arash Mirhosseini (PhD student at University of British Columbia)
Tia Martineau (PhD student at the University of New Hampshire)
Naylynn Tañón Reyes (Undergraduate student at San Diego Mesa College)
Dr. Nicole Cabrera Salazar (CEO, Movement Consulting)
Noah Wolfe (BS Physics and Math student at North Carolina State University)
John Noonan (PhD Student at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona)
Bridget Falck (Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University)
Christine O’Donnell (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Peter Yoachim (University of Washington, LSST)
Russell Deitrick (Postdoc at University of Bern)
Megan Thompson (Undergraduate Astronomy and Physics student at the University of Texas at Austin)
Olivia Howard (Undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin)
Kay Kirkpatrick (University of Illinois, Math & Physics)
Claire Murray (Postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University)
Natalie Nicole Sanchez (PhD student at the University of Washington, Seattle)
Rian Robison (Undergrad at University of Texas at Austin)
John Johnson (Harvard)
Christopher Morrison (University of Washington, LSST)
Christopher Hirata (The Ohio State University)
Kaitlin Rasmussen (PhD student at University of Notre Dame, Joint Institute of Nuclear Astrophysics and Center for Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE))
Mason NG (PhD student at MIT)
Adrian Crawford (Undergrad at the University of Texas at Austin)
Dana Koeppe (PhD student at Michigan State University)
Allison Kirkpatrick (Assistant professor at University of Kansas)
Mariarosa Marinelli (Undergrad at Virginia Commonwealth University)
Ilyse Clark (Undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin)
Heather Pantell (PhD student at University of Rochester)
Deanna Arsala (PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago)
Dawn Rilveria
Stephanie Hamilton (Recent PhD graduate from the University of Michigan, NSF graduate fellow)
Dr Vicky Scowcroft (Lecturer, University of Bath, UK)
Kristen Garofali (Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Arkansas)
Joachim Moeyens (PhD student at the University of Washington)
Alexander Criswell (PhD student at the University of Minnesota)
Mike Alexandersen (Postdoc at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Debby Tran (PhD Student at University of Washington)
Fiona Panther (Postdoctoral researcher, UNSW Canberra)
Russell Van Linge (Carnegie DTM)
Aislynn Wallach (PhD student at Boston University, University of Washington – Seattle)
Clara Brasseur
Melissa L. Graham (University of Washington)
Lissie Connors
Locke Patton (PhD student at Harvard University)
Paul Bergeron (Postdoc at Michigan State University)
Guadalupe Tovar (PhD student at the University of Washington, NSF Graduate Fellow)
Sam McDermott (Schramm postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab)
Imad Pasha (PhD student at Yale, NSF Graduate Fellow)
Katherine Rainey (PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder)
Xandria Quichocho (Undergraduate at Texas State University, Native Chamorro woman, Black Woman, equity researcher)
Virginia Price (PhD Student at Drexel University)
Oliver J. Hall (PhD student at University of Birmingham)
Daniel Grin (Assistant Professor (Physics) Haverford College)
Dalal El Youssoufi (PhD candidate at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))
Adham El-Batal (PhD Student at Boston University)
Anna S. Ross (Undergraduate student at Northern Arizona University)
Deryl Long (Astronomy Undergrad at the University of Michigan)
Anna S. Ross (Undergraduate student at Northern Arizona University)
Katelyn Breivik (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Joshua Lothringer (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Ilana Bromberg (Undergraduate at Stony Brook University)
Summer Ash (Senior STEAM Education Specialist, NRAO)
Brianna Lacy (PhD student at Princeton University)
Teal, D.J. (PhD student at University of Maryland)
Sarah Graber (Undergraduate at Columbia University)
Tyler Gordon (PhD student at University of Washington)
Andreia Carrillo (PhD student at UT Austin)
Jane Glanzer (PhD student at Louisiana State University)
Michelle Bannister (Postdoc at Queen’s University Belfast)
Fernanda Nogueira (Undergrad student at Universidade de São Paulo)
Leo Y. Alcorn (York Science Fellow, York University)
Louis Abramson (Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Observatories, Princeton University)
Laurin Gray (Astronomy & Physics undergraduate at University of Arizona)
Michael Zingale (Stony Brook University)
Kristin M. Block (University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)
Marvin Q. Jones, Jr. (PhD student, Indiana University)
Thaddeus Komacek (Postdoc at University of Chicago)
Brittany Lohman (Undergraduate student at Texas State)
Rabia Husain (Undergrad at UT Austin)
Tharindu Jayasinghe (PhD student at The Ohio State University)
Ashley L. Walker (Senior at Chicago State University)
KeShawn Ivory (incoming physics Master’s student at Fisk University)
Erin Maier (PhD student at University of Arizona)
David Setton (PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh)
Eve V. North (PhD student at Cardiff University)
David Ball (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Katrina Litke (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Monica Vidaurri (Master’s Student at George Mason University, NASA GSFC)
Grace Telford (PhD student at University of Washington, NSF graduate fellow)
Michael Daniel (Undergraduate at Whitman College)
Zoë Haggard (Undergrad at Pomona College)
Alexa Anderson (Undergraduate Student at Yale University, Astrophysics Major)
Cecilia Siqueiros (Undergrad student at MIT)
Erin Boettcher (Postdoc at University of Chicago)
Daniel D. Kelson (Carnegie Observatories)
Charity Woodrum (PhD student at the University of Arizona and NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Dr. Julie N. Skinner
R. Andrew Sevrinsky (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Shireen Gonzaga (Technical editor, STScI)
Russell Owen (LSST and University of Washington)
José Sánchez-Gallego (Acting Assistant Professor at University of Washington)
Brian Zamarripa Roman (Physics PhD student at University of Central Florida)
Rodolfo Garcia (PhD student at University of Washington, Seattle)
Rachel Paterno-Mahler (Visiting Assistant Professor, Keck Science Center)
Sarah Kendrew (Instrument Scientist)
Zoya Vallari (Postdoc at Caltech)
Gerardo Guzman (Physics Undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin)
Isabel J. Rodriguez (Graduate student at Oregon State University, Oregon NASA Space Grant)
Matthew Turk (University of Illinois)
Weixiang Yu (PhD student at Drexel University)
Valentina Peirano (PhD student Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Nathalia De Souza (Undergraduate student at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
Katie Rink (Undergraduate at University of British Columbia)
Derek Fox (Penn State University)
Kate Rowlands (Johns Hopkins University)
Maitland Bowen (Undergraduate student at University of Michigan)
Erini Lambrides (PhD student at Johns Hopkins University)
Mahlet Shiferaw (Undergraduate at Harvard University, Joint Concentration in Astrophysics & Physics)
R. E. Hviding (PhD student at University of Arizona)
Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein (PhD Student at University of Washington)
Paola Montoya (Astrophysicist and MSc Student at Aberystwyth University)
Phoebe McClincy (Undergraduate student at Penn State University, Penn State Millennium Scholar)
Stephen A. Daire (MS Geographic Information Science and Technology University of Southern California, Instructor of Planetary Science and Technology Analog Research International Institute of Astronautical Studies)
Jacob Hamer (PhD student at Johns Hopkins University)
Cynthia Tarr (Employee at Adler Planetarium)
Peter Frinchaboy (Associate Professor, Texas Christian University)
Breanna Binder (Assistant professor at Cal Poly Pomona)
Duncan Watts (Research Assistant at Johns Hopkins University)
Kevin Hainline (Senior Research Associate at Steward Observatory)
Meredith Rawls (University of Washington, LSST)
Jennifer Connelly (Professor at RIT)
Ikaika Ramones (PhD student at New York University, Harvard University)
Harshil Kamdar (PhD Student at Harvard University)
Madison Smith (PhD student at Indiana University)
Meredith Hughes (Associate Professor at Wesleyan University)
Dr. Rachael Alexandroff (NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Nikki Rider (incoming PhD student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Brian Frank (Associate Professor at Middle Tennessee State University)
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (PhD candidate at the University of Washington)
David Fleming (PhD student at the University of Washington)
Lehman Garrison (Postdoctoral researcher at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Molly McDonough (B.S. Physics Student at Suffolk University)
Laura Watkins (Fellow at UVienna and ESO Garching)
Cody Dirks (Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, 2019)
Néstor Espinoza (Postdoc at MPIA, Bernoulli & IAU-Gruber Fellow)
Jeff Carlin (Research Associate at LSST)
Johnny Ho (PhD student at the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute)
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Johanna Teske (Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories)
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Julieta Gruszko (Papparlardo Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Emily Rauscher (Assistant professor at the University of Michigan)
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Abigail Lee (PhD student at University of Chicago)
Rushi Shah (Undergraduate research assistant at University of Texas at Austin)
Hannah Bish (PhD student at University of Washington)
Ramon Barthelemy (Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah)
Gautham Narayan (Lasker Fellow, STScI)
Gouraf Khullar (PhD Candidate, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics)
Manisha Shrestha (Postdoc at Liverpool John Moores University)
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Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (PhD student at JHU, NSF graduate fellow)
Benjamin Rackham (Postdoc at University of Arizona)
Trustin Henderson (Astrophysics undergraduate at Yale University)
Alice Burington (Undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin)
Kathryne J Daniel (Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College)
Charlotte Olsen (PhD student at Rutgers University)
Pedro Russo (Assistant Professor Astronomy & Society at Leiden University, the Netherlands; IAstro, Portugal)
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David Fusilier (Bachelor of Science Physics and Astronomy at Wichita State University)
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Julian Panehal (Cornell University & University of Hawaii Hilo Alumni)
Daniela Huppenkothen (University of Washington)
Christian Eistrup (Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Virginia)
Aleks Scholz (Observatory Director at University of St. Andrews, UK)
Michelle Nichols-Yehling (Director of Public Observing at Adler Planetarium0
Ray Sharma (PhD candidate at Rutgers University)
Adam Trotter (UNC-Chapel Hill)
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Anna Wright (PhD student at Rutgers University)
Alex Urban (Louisiana State University, LIGO Laboratory)
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Alice Olmstead (Assistant Professor at Texas State University)
James Juno (PhD student at University of Maryland, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
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Moiya McTier (PhD student at Columbia, NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
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Sofia Sheikh (PhD candidate at Penn State University)
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Matthew Wilde (PhD student at University of Washington)
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Henry Zovaro (PhD student at the Australian National University)
Keduse Worku (Undergraduate astronomer at Yale University)
Angus Beane (Graduate student at Harvard University)
Jacob Pilawa (Student at Colgate University)
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Patrick Vallely (PhD student at Ohio State University, NSF Graduate Research Fellow)
Judy Twedt (PhD student at the University of Washington)
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Nicolas Boardman (Postdoc at University of Utah, Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Rosie Alegado (Associate Professor, Oceanography & Sea Grant, University of Hawaii Mānoa)
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Hayley Beltz (Astronomy PhD student at University of Michigan)
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David Charbonneau (Professor, Harvard University)
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Sinclaire Manning (PhD student at UT Austin)
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Andrea Zonca (Staff Scientist at University of California, San Diego)
Joshua Tan (Assistant Prof. At City University of New York; Research Affiliate at American Museum of Natural History)
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Jessica Thorne (Graduate student at International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia)
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Urmila Chadayammuri (PhD student at Yale University)
James Brokaw (Undergraduate Illinois State University, Counselor Adler Planetarium)
Brianna Bukowski (High school student at Naperville Central High School, Adler Planetarium)
Elisabeth Mills (Assistant Professor, University of Kansas)
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Dominic Bordelon (Librarian at European Southern Observatory)
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Erik Monson (PhD student at the University of Arkansas)
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Margaret Lee (Student at University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Intern at Statewide Organizing for Community Empowerment (SOCM); DSA member)
Kate Napier (PhD student at the University of Michigan)
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John C. Martin (Associate Professor of Astronomy-Physics, University of Illinois Springfield)
Andrew Szentgyorgyi (Associate Director, CfA)
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Michael Ross (PhD candidate at University of Washington; LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
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Justin Brienza (Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University)
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Debra Fischer (Professor of Astronomy, Yale University)
Shirin Zaidi (Student at Penn State University)
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Nathaniel Kerman (Student at Yale University; University of Chile, Santiago)
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Carl Fields (PhD student at Michigan State University)
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Joanne Dawson (Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University)
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Naim Goksel Karacayli (PhD student at Yale University)
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Louise Edwards (Asst. Prof at Cal Poly, SLO)
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