Meredith Rawls

Meredith Rawls is a PhD astronomer at the University of Washington. She works on data pipelines and validation for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which will soon begin producing a high resolution movie of the night sky. Her research studies the increasing population of satellites to better understand their impact on science and our skies. She co-leads SatHub at the International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (IAU CPS). Meredith lives in Seattle with her family and enjoys getting around via cargo e-bike.