Quick, Lynnae C.
Oral history interview with Lynnae Quick, 2021 January 14 & 28.
In this interview, David Zierler, Oral Historian for AIP, interviews Dr. Lynnae Quick, Ocean Worlds Planetary Geophysicist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. Quick discusses the past year and the challenges associated with increasing diversity in the field, and she recounts her childhood in North Carolina. She describes her early interests in science and her undergraduate experience at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and the value of attending an HBCU. Quick discusses her initial graduate work at Catholic University and a formative internship she spent working with Aki Roberge at Goddard on exoplanets and how she became interested in planetary geology and ultimately cyrovolcanism. Quick explains her decision to transfer to Johns Hopkins where there were more opportunities to study planetary science and to work with Bruce Marsh and Louise Prockter as a co-advisor. She discusses her thesis research on Europa, and she explains when it is possible to extrapolate findings on one exoplanet to others. Quick describes her postdoctoral research with Lori Glaze on cryovolcanism on Venus at Goddard and explains the relevance of this field to astrobiology. She describes her first staff scientist position at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum where she worked on the Europa Clipper mission and she describes the opportunity to join Goddard in a full time position, where she picked back up on the cryovolcanism research she had some as a postdoctoral researcher. Quick discusses her current work on extrasolar planets. At the end of the interview, Quick surveys the state of diversity and inclusivity in the field, and the work that remains to be done building on the efforts undertaken over the past year, and she conveys optimism that imaging geysers on Europa could yield evidence of life.
American planetary geophysicist. Ph.D. earth & planetary sciences, Johns Hopkins University (2013). Professional experience includes: ocean worlds planetary scientist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center.
Glaze, Lori S.
Marsh, Bruce.
Prockter, Louise
Quick, Lynnae C.
Roberge, Aki
Catholic University of America.
Goddard Space Flight Center
Johns Hopkins University
National Air and Space Museum
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Cryovolcanism.
Diversity in the workplace
Extrasolar planets
Geology
Minorities in science.
Europa (Satellite)
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Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA