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Science Person of the Month: May
Each month in our Link galleries we highlight a local scientist and
invite them to the Maryland Science Center to meet visitors and answer questions about science as a career. Geologists, Aerospace Engineers,
Medical Researchers— these are just a few of the scientists you could
meet. Science isn't just something that happens in the laboratory—it
happens every day, all around us.
Dr. Alex Antunes
Astrophysicist
Naval Research Laboratory
May 26, 12-2 PM
In SpaceLink
Dr. Alex (Sandy) Antunes is an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory studying the Sun and the million-ton electronics-disrupting bundles of charged plasma called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) the sun kicks off. He uses images from the newly launched twin STEREO satellites to construct 3-D computer models of observed CMEs to understand and predict their behavior.
He went to school at Penn State, Boston University, and George Mason, where he obtained his Ph.D.
Q & A with Dr. Antunes:
What is your favorite vegetable?
Collard greens (really!)
If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be? Why?
A wolf...they get to stay out late and howl at the moon.
Name something that you like to do that is not directly related to science.
Play and build electric guitars.
Which would be your first choice for a trip to a place you've never been?
Mars or the Moon or anywhere else in space... Then, New Zealand.
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