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Aomawa L. Shields

Shields Center for Exoplanet Climate and Interdisciplinary Education (SCECIE)

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“Exoplanet Explorer“, UCI News, July 1, 2024

“Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here’s One’s Story”, Scientific American, July 24, 2023

“An Astrobiologist Search for Life in Space and Meaning on Earth”, WIRED, July 11, 2023

“Astrobiologist of the Month“, Lunatics, April 2023

“‘Terminator zones’ on distant planets could harbor life, UC Irvine astronomers say”, UCI News, March 16, 2023

Featured Astronomer in Astrophysics Variety Hour Video produced by NASA’s Universe of Learning, March 29, 2022

“Aomawa Shields Visits Bowdoin as 2022 Kibbe Science Lecturer”, The Bowdoin Orient, February 25, 2022

“UCI’s Rising Stargirls Program Dawns Again This Summer”, UCI Physical Sciences Communications, January 19, 2022

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson Season 12, Episode 22: “Cosmic Queries – Exoplanetary Exploration with Dr. Aomawa Shields”, August 31, 2021

“The Limit Does Not Exist” Podcast episode 111: “Star Power” , October 30, 2020

“Adler Planetarium’s Online Exhibit “Life on Other Worlds”, Adler Planetarium, October 13, 2020

Tonya Bolden’s book Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM March 16, 2020

How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets
New Scientist, August 7, 2019

Oceans, Beaches, Cosmic Shorelines: Our Changing Views of Habitable Planets
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration, June 18, 2019

The Importance of Women in STEM Aomawa Shields Features in Teen Vogue List of Female Advocates of STEM
Astrobiology at NASA-Life in the Universe, June 6, 2019

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Anniversary Is a Reminder of the Importance of Women in STEM
Teen Vogue, June 5, 2019

Modeling the Climates of Worlds Beyond Earth
Earth and Space Science News, January 14, 2019

Three UCI School of Physical Sciences Faculty Earn Prestigious NSF Early Career Awards
UCI School of Physical Sciences Communications, June 18, 2018

“UCI Astronomer Wins NASA Habitable Worlds Grant to Study Surface Reflectivity of Exoplanets? UCI News, October 23, 2017

“What Do You Have to Do to Get a Water Covered Planet Around Here?“, Astrobites, June 1, 2017

“Astrobiology’s Rising Star“, UC News, February 7, 2017

“Faculty Highlight: Aomawa Shields“, Astronomy in Color, September 29, 2016

“What Should You Read This Summer? A Mega Reading List“, TED, July 20, 2016

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News

  • UCI Professor Aomawa Shields Featured on Earth.com
  • UCI Professor Shields Featured on SciTech Daily
  • UCI Professor Aomawa Shields Featured on UC Irvine News
  • UCI Professor Aomawa Shields and SCECIE PostDoc Ana Lobo Featured in the American Astronomical Society Article
  • UCI Professor Aomawa Shields Featured as Lunatic’s April Astrobiologist of the Month
Aomawa L. Shields
Physics and Astronomy
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697
shields@uci.edu

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