Titan: Ingredients for Life
Jun 12, 2019
7:30PM to 9:30PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/06/2019
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Prof Sarah M Hörst – Johns Hopkins University
Sarah M Hörst is Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where she is working to understand the formation and composition of planetary atmospheric hazes. Dr. Hörst received her B.S. in Planetary Science and B.S. in Literature from the California Institute of Technology in 2004. While at Caltech, she worked with Dr. Michael Brown studying Europa and Titan. After graduating from Caltech, she worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a year. She earned her PhD from the University of Arizona where she studied the chemistry occurring in Titan’s atmosphere with Dr. Roger Yelle at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. She continued her studies as an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Margaret Tolbert at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at University of Colorado-Boulder.