Speaker: David Grinspoon
David Grinspoon, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA, is an astrobiologist and award-winning author. He studies climate change on Earthlike planets, conditions for life elsewhere, and human impacts on Earth. His research is published in Nature, Science, and many other journals. He’s written for Scientific American, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
His newest book is Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto. Earth in Human Hands was named Best Book of 2016 by NPR’s Science Friday. Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life won a PEN award. He appears often on television, radio and podcasts, including as a frequent guest and host of StarTalk. As a musician he leads GROOVADELICS. Awarded the Carl Sagan Medal for Public Communication, he’s an elected lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Asteroid 22410 Grinspoon is named after him.
