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Dr. Bryan Mendez
Dr. Bryan Mendez is an Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Specialist at the Center
for Science Education at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (CSE@SSL). At CSE@SSL,
Bryan develops programs for the public through the web and museums, develops classroom
materials for students in K-12 classrooms, and conducts professional development
for science educators. Bryan has served as an E/PO specialist for several NASA missions
and projects including: SECEF, RHESSI, STEREO-IMPACT, CHIPS, WISE, SPIDR, NVO/Virtual
Cosmos, Stardust@home, Nature's Biggest Blasts, and the Automated Planet Finder
(APF). He has a particular interest in teacher professional development and has
conducted many workshops and short courses for teachers at CSE@SSL and at national
conferences such as NSTA, CSTA, & SACNAS and in conjunction with the GEMS program
from the UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science.
Bryan hails from Traverse City, Michigan where the dark skies enthralled him from
a very early age and inspired him to study astronomy. He graduated from the University
of Michigan in 1997 with degrees in Astronomy, Physics, and Saxophone Performance.
Bryan continued his education at the University of California at Berkeley, where
he researched the distances of galaxies and their large scale motions in the nearby
Universe. He received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley in 2002.
Dr. Natalie Batalha
Natalie Batalha is a professor of astronomy and physics at San Jose State University where she conducts research on extrasolar planet detection and stellar astrophysics. She is a co-Investigator for NASA's Kepler Mission http://kepler.nasa.gov. Kepler is a NASA Discovery mission whose objective is to identify and characterize habitable, earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars. As Director of the Systems Teaching Institute at the NASA Research Park http://uarc.ucsc.edu/sti, Dr. Batalha is responsible for creating programs and resources for students pursuing careers in fields relevant to the mission of NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Batalha received her Bachelor's degree in Physics and in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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