Summer Series Colloquia
The NASA Ames Office of the Chief Scientist is pleased to announce the 2025 NASA Summer Series!
The Summer Series is a set of talks by subject leaders from around the globe. Each year, the Office of the Chief Scientist produces a platform for innovative discussion and inspiration to catalyze scientific progress, share ideas, and communicate new and exciting concepts. Many subjects are discussed in the Summer Series, including distinctive topics relevant to the Agency’s goals that are engaging for a research and technology center. The Summer Series is a broad forum that aims to bring new and exciting stories to both NASA employees and the public.
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The series consists of 11 seminars highlighting Ames Research Center’s diverse capabilities and expertise in advancing NASA, academia, and commercial space goals.
See the schedule below and mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, June 24 – Rachel Ticknor – From Idea to Mission Concept
- Thursday, June 26 – Lara Lash – Painting a Picture of Pressure
- Tuesday, July 8 – Grace Belancik – Clean Air from LEO to Mars
- Thursday, July 10 – Keith Peterson – Rocket Lab’s Mission to Venus
- Tuesday, July 15 – Joey Mercer – Airspace Integration for US Forest Service
- Thursday, July 17 – Lucas Braydwood – Ensuring NASA’s Quantum-Readiness
- Tuesday, July 22 – Kenneth Cheung – Robotic Space Infrastructure
- Tuesday July 29 – Mark Fonda – Local Boy Career Perspective and Insights
- Thursday, July 31 – Mark Ditzler – Molecular Evolution at the Dawn of Life
- Tuesday, Aug. 5 – Nathan Benz – Distributed Space Traffic Monitoring
- Tuesday, Aug. 12 – Lorien Wheeler – Risk Rocks: Assessing Asteroid Threats
The seminars will take place at 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. PDT in N201 Syvertson Auditorium and will also be available for streaming. See Inside Ames for additional information.
