RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — As we draw closer to the total solar eclipse happening on April 8, Mitzi Adams with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center will be offering a public lecture at Arkansas Tech University.
The free "NASA, Eclipses, and My Life" lecture at ATU will be on Friday, February 23, 2024, and will begin promptly at 7:15 p.m. in the Doc Bryan Student Services Center Lecture Hall at 1605 Coliseum Drive in Russellville.
The event will also coincide with the Arkansas Junior Science and Humanities Symposium that ATU is hosting this weekend.
Adams first joined NASA as a graduate co-op student over three decades ago in March 1988. After completing her master's degree in January 1991, she became a full-time employee with NASA.
Her primary research work early on in her career involved using ground-based data from Marshall Space Flight Center’s solar vector magnetograph. After the launch of the Hinode mission in 2006, she switched the research emphasis to data that was acquired in space.
Aside from her research work in solar physics, she has also supported Dr. John Davis with the analysis of data from testing the solar X-ray imager that was built and tested at Marshall Space Flight Center and launched in 2001 on the GOES-12 spacecraft.
She has also served as the assistant manager for the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's branch of heliophysics and planetary science.
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