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"Light and Sensing" presentation on behalf of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium at the Alabama Science Teachers Conference February 2026.
Presenting about the Alabama Youth Action for Sustainability Summit at the Environmental Education Association of Alabama conference, March 2026.
"The Seven Rules of Trust Book Discussion" for the American Physical Society Science Trust Project Community Hour, February 2026.
"Decoding Dark Matter: Mapping the Milky Way" presentation at Gadsden High School Teen Science Cafe in Fall 2025. Pilot testing a module I made about Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti's research for the Alabama Space Grant Consortium Ambassadors program.
Reviewing the types of energy sources and the physics of the greenhouse effect at the Energy Alabama "Energy in Action" Teacher workshop at Free2Teach, March 2026.
"Cosmic Detective: The search to understand Fast Radio Bursts" Astronomy on Tap Rocket City, February 2026.
"Biomimicry and Energy" and "Spaceship Earth" presentations for Energy Alabama. The "Biomimicry and Energy" activity for elmentary students asks, "How would nature solve this?" and engages students in a matching activity and an opportunity to design a solar powered device. I also wrote a "Spaceship Earth" presentation to use the Energy Alabama Apollo 13 activity, which engages high school students in budgeting lighting, navigation, and heating systems to get the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, ending with a discussion of how Earth is also like a spaceship.
Diverse Routes Podcast interview hosted by Dr. Cassie Briggs
Panelist at the Small Town Universe (film by Katie Dellamaggiore), Southern Circuit Sidewalk Theater October 8, 2024.
Conversations on Careers Outside of Academia, Panelist at the March, 2025 session.
Climate Change workshops at Tech Trek AAUW Huntsville: Youth engagement workshops with Alabama middle school girls. June 2024: "How Do We Know? Evidence of Climate Change" and June 2025: "Climate Change Solutions: Finding Your Role," with an activity inspired by the Climate Action Venn Diagram. Each year ~60 students were engaged. These were pilot modules for future climate change camps with the Youth Alabama for Sustainability Summit, supported by The University of West Alabama Black Belt STEM Education Institute.
June 2024 National Space Club Breakfast presentation about the STEM Ambassador K-12 Outreach program I developed for the Alabama Space Grant Consortium.
"International Space Station" presentation at Munford Schools "Tomatosphere Day" in Spring 2023 with ASGC Fellowship Student, Lauren Erwin.
ASGC Table at the Alabama Science Teaching Association February 2023 meeting. On behalf of ASGC, I led 2 sessions: one on solar eclipses and one on NASA climate change resources.
"To Space and Back" presentation with ASGC Fellowship Student, Luke Moore, and the University of West Alabama Black Belt STEM Institute to conduct a 3-day tour of 3 counties in the Black Belt region of Alabama, reaching 13 schools and over 1,300 K-12 students.
"What it's like to be an Earth and Space Science independent consultant," Association of Women in Science Summer of Science Spotlight
"There is No Planet B: Engaging Students and Teachers in Climate Learning and Action," invited presentation for the 4th Shaw-IAU Workshops: Students in a Changing Climate: How Can Astronomy Help?
"How can space exploration solve climate change?" Invited Keynote for the 2021 NASA HUNCH Challenge in collaboration with the Association for Career and Technical Education.
WVU Climate Conversations Podcast, produced by the WVU Daily Athenaum and available on all major podcast platforms. Here is a link to the show on Apple Podcasts.
Global Warming with a Hand Boiler, WVU Department of Physics & Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations
The Greenhouse Effect with Infrared Camera, WVU Department of Physics & Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations
"You Can Map the Milky Way," UNL Astronomy. Invited Keynote for the 2019 Nebraska Physics Teachers Association Meeting.
"Astronomy Education with Robotic Telescopes" UNL Astronomy presentation at the 2019 Nebraska Physics Teachers Association Meeting.
Celestial Coordinates Umbrella, WVU Department of Physics & Astronomy, inspired by this activity from Skynet Junior Scholars and the IDATA project.
Milky Way Scale Model Demo, WVU Department of Physics & Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations.
Kepler's Law Demo, WVU Department of Physics & Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations.
How a Telescope Works, WVU Department of Physics & Astronomy Lecture Demonstrations
Fourth-Grade Scientists, WVU Magazine. Sparked Podcast Episode 6
West Virginia Power Dialog 2020 panelist, Solve Climate by 2030.
"Teenage Radio Wave Hunters" - Credit: West Virginia University. I am featured at time 2:15.
"How a CCD camera works" - A contribution to the IDATA Project.
50th Anniversary Moon Landy Interview with WV Metro News, July 2020.
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