Episode 78: Three Ways to Be a Planetary Scientist

Guests: Aida Behmard & Shreyas Vissapragada At the 2019 Sagan Workshop, Caltech graduate students Aida Behmard & Shreyas Vissapragada give Mike peeks at three of their recent research projects—the first being laboratory work, the second astronomical observation, and the final one utilizing machine learning (a subset of artificial intelligence)—demonstrating that there is no single way to be a planetary scientist. At the end of the episode, Mike presents a clip from his StoryCorps interview at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting. Aida's "binding energies of hydrocarbons" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09720 Shreyas' "infrared observations of exoplanets" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04445 Aida's "machine learning/stars" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00094 Follow us on Twitter! Mike: @Miquai Aida: @abehmard Shreyas: @astroshrey