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Millersville University (PA), the Hazeltine family and Pfizer, Inc. sponsor
an annual Glenna Hazeltine Women in Mathematics and Science Conference. The
purpose: to encourage young women in grades 7 through 12 to pursue a career
in science and mathematics by giving them opportunities to meet a variety of
professional women role models who have successfully pursued such careers.
This year Stephanie Stockman was the keynote speaker for the 16th conference,
held April 8 at the Millersville University Campus is Millersville, PA. Her
topic, “Adventures in Earth and Space Sciences at NASA”, described her own
career from part-time research and teaching to full-time geoscience education
and public outreach work. Stephanie works for SSAI and is a member of the
Geodynamics Branch.
Stephanie Stockman is a structural geologist and geoscience educator. She began her career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1992 as a part time researcher, studying multi-ringed impact basins on Mars. During that time, she also taught Physical Geology and Introductory Chemistry at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. By 1997, Stephanie was looking for new ways to share the work of scientists and engineers at NASA as the fulltime Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) coordinator for the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at Goddard. She now develops E/PO programs for NASA satellite missions. She is the E/PO lead for MESSENGER, a Discovery Mission to Mercury that launches in 2004. She coordinates the E/PO efforts of EOS Aura (an atmospheric chemistry satellite) and the Landsat 7 (land remote sensing satellite) Project Science Office. In addition, Stephanie is the Education Co-investigator for the GLOBE Soils Characterization Investigation and the GLOBE Aerosols Investigation. Stephanie has a BS in Geology from Towson State University, extensive graduate work in structural geology and tectonics and a M.Ed. in Geoscience Education from the University of Maryland.
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ANOTHER KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jacob Yates, also an SSAI employee in the
Geodynamics Branch, will be the keynote speaker at the State of Maine’s Space
Day on May 1. He will talk about Earth observation imagery and visit several
of the classrooms participating in EarthKAM, the ISS student involvement
program described in February’s Science Highlight.
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Responsible NASA official: Dr. Herbert Frey