Sigma Xi Fall 2022 Lecture with Michael Allison, Astronomy

The Sigma Xi Fall 2022 lecture will be delivered by Michael Allison, Research Associate and Associate of the Hopkins Observatory, on Friday, October 28th at 4:15 PM in the Bronfman Auditorium. The lecture title is “Planetary Atmospheric Motions: Explorations and Notions.”

Michael Allison is a space scientist and atmospheric dynamicist. During his long career at the NASA / Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, he served on the science teams for several planetary flight projects, including the Cassini / Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, and the Juno orbiter mission at Jupiter. Recently affiliated with Williams as a Research Associate in Astronomy, he will be teaching a 2023 Winter Study Program course on Space Pioneering. Allison earned his A.B. in Physics and English at Wittenberg and his Ph.D. in Space Physics and Astronomy at Rice University.