Amanda Stockton's guest appearances

Amanda Stockton

The Story Collider

NASA's Ask An Astrobiologist

Mark Cuban

David Epstein

Mara Wilson

Nelson Lugo

Sara Seager

Zach Weinersmith

Stuart Firestein

Danielle N. Lee

Daniel Miller

Sean Carroll

Bruce Damer

Jon Ronson

Carl Hart

Natalie Batalha

Anna Rothschild

OwlTail

Please join us as we welcome, Dr. Amanda Stockton, from Georgia Tech! Dr. Stockton is the Principle Investigator for FELDSPAR, the Field Exploration and Life Detection Sampling for Planetary and Astrobiology Research, a project that explores Icelandic lava flows in order to better understand our search for life on Mars. "Ask an Astrobiologist" is a live interview with a renowned astrobiologist! This format is interactive and allows participants to ask questions on Twitter, Facebook, &amp; SAGANet!Check out our website for the full transcript of this podcast, plus the full YouTube version of this episode: astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/episodes/21/

Please join us as we welcome, Dr. Amanda Stockton, from Georgia Tech! Dr. Stockton is the Principle Investigator for FELDSPAR, the Field Exploration and Life Detection Sampling for Planetary and Astrobiology Research, a project that explores Icelandic lava flows in order to better understand our search for life on Mars. "Ask an Astrobiologist" is a live interview with a renowned astrobiologist! This format is interactive and allows participants to ask questions on Twitter, Facebook, &amp; SAGANet! Check out our website for the full transcript of this podcast, plus the full YouTube version of this episode: <a href="http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/episodes/21/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/episodes/21/</a>

Looking for Life on Volcanoes in Iceland with Dr. Amanda Stockton

Growing up on a cattle ranch, Amanda Stockton dreams of searching for life elsewhere in the universe. Dr. Amanda Stockton is an assistant professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work walks the line between engineering and science to develop instrumentation capable of looking for organic molecules elsewhere in the solar system. These molecules could be the feedstock for an emergence of life or the remnants of past life now extinct on places like Europa, Enceladus, and Mars. Dr. Stockton grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma, where she graduated from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she majored in Aerospace Engineering and Chemistry – seemingly unrelated topics but perfect for her “dream job,” i.e. the one she has now. After obtaining a masters at Brown in chemistry, she earned her PhD with Dr. Richard Mathies at the University of California, Berkeley working on increasing the analytical chemistry capabilities of the Mars Organic Analyzer microchip capillary electrophoresis instrument platform. She continued in this vein at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, by furthering the microfluidic engineering side of the technology as first a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow and then as a Technologist. At Georgia Tech, her group’s work seeks to do both the engineering and the science to synergistically promote instrument capabilities and robustness. Currently, the group’s main NASA-funded project is a version of the Mars Organic Analyzer that could fit on a kinetic impactor mission to an icy moon – a project for which testing involves a giant rail gun and a magnetic capture system to decelerate the instrument at 50,000 g or the equivalent of hitting a planet at 5 km/s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Growing up on a cattle ranch, Amanda Stockton dreams of searching for life elsewhere in the universe. Dr. Amanda Stockton is an assistant professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work walks the line between engineering and science to develop instrumentation capable of looking for organic molecules elsewhere in the solar system. These molecules could be the feedstock for an emergence of life or the remnants of past life now extinct on places like Europa, Enceladus, and Mars. Dr. Stockton grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma, where she graduated from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she majored in Aerospace Engineering and Chemistry – seemingly unrelated topics but perfect for her “dream job,” i.e. the one she has now. After obtaining a masters at Brown in chemistry, she earned her PhD with Dr. Richard Mathies at the University of California, Berkeley working on increasing the analytical chemistry capabilities of the Mars Organic Analyzer microchip capillary electrophoresis instrument platform. She continued in this vein at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, by furthering the microfluidic engineering side of the technology as first a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow and then as a Technologist. At Georgia Tech, her group’s work seeks to do both the engineering and the science to synergistically promote instrument capabilities and robustness. Currently, the group’s main NASA-funded project is a version of the Mars Organic Analyzer that could fit on a kinetic impactor mission to an icy moon – a project for which testing involves a giant rail gun and a magnetic capture system to decelerate the instrument at 50,000 g or the equivalent of hitting a planet at 5 km/s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Amanda Stockton: The Girl With The Big Nose