"My greatest contribution is the students that come through my program." an interview with Emily Schaller

Description

Emily Schaller, project manager at NASA's National Suborbital Research Center at Ames, discusses her Ph.D. work studying the clouds on Titan and her work as a science and education.

She recalled how as a young child, she would study illustrations of the planets of the solar system, "thinking I saw very important things in the pictures." That was the spark that got her interested in planetary science and ultimately led her to pursue a Ph.D. studying one season of weather on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Now, she manages an internship program for undergraduates and educational programs for K-12 students. "We have over 300 students who have gone through the [internship program] and…we have ten years of alumni, and many of them now have PhDs. Many of them are now scientists in their own right." (Recorded 10 December 2018)

Participants

• Emily Schaller
  
• Rachel Kauffman
  
• AGU Narratives
  

Interview By

• AGU Narratives