Dr. Michele Bannister Senior Lecturer University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Abstract: Aotearoa New Zealand has the world’s fourth-most-prolific rocket launch provider, a six-year-old space agency, a growing aerospace community, and a unique approach to developing its funding of science in partnership between Indigenous Māori and Government ambitions. I’ll discuss from a personal perspective the journey of being new faculty in the last two years in NZ: working to draw together connections for a nascent planetary science community, exploring how interstellar objects like 1I/‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov can provide insight into the star-formation history of the Galaxy, and engaging with the challenges of satellite megaconstellations to skies across the world and the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory. Zoom guidelines and information As a reminder, please keep yourself muted during the meeting unless you are speaking. If you have an important clarification question, please raise the “blue hand” in the Participant list before asking or you can ask a question in Chat window. For non-urgent questions, please wait until the Q/A time following the presentation. Refreshments will be served outside on the lawn between Kuiper Space Sciences and Flandrau Science Center under the Moon Tree, weather permitting, at 3:20 p.m. You may join the talk from your office, or with your colleagues in Kuiper 308. Questions will be moderated both on zoom and in room 308. Masks are required in the seminar room. Refreshments are not permitted in the seminar room.