Highlights Public Engagement (press_Kaltenegger.pdf)

Press RELEASE

“The most exciting planets for habitability yet.”                                                             April 13

http://www.mpia.de/Public/menu_q2e.php?Aktuelles/PR/2013/PR_2013_05/PR_2013_05_en.html

“Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Awards to Honor Scientific Achievements of Six Early-Career Researchers” http://www.dfg.de/en/service/press/press_releases/2012/press_release_no_10/index.html       May 12

“Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds?” http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2010/pr201014.html      Sep10

“Avatar’s moon Pandora could be real” http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200925.html, Dec09

"Finding Twin Earths:Harder Than We Thought” http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200909.htmlMar09

“3 Top Young CfA Astronomers Honored” http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2007/pr200730.htmlNov07

“Astronomers reveal first Alien ID chart” http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2006/pr0625.htmlOct 06

Selected Highlights Public Engagement

Time Magazine: Guide to 2014 - Innovators                                                 Jan 14

Media Award: Smithsonian Magazine Young Innovator 2007 Award        July 07

Scientific Advisor & Interviews (some TV, Planetary shows & press)

WDR Quarks & Co Science Show, Science Talk Austria, Stoeckel Show                 2013

Nano-science magazine, WQ knowledge show, Talk am Hangar 7, Servus TV        2012

Hubble TV show, Servus TV, Wir sind Kaiser           2011

Planetarium Show “Undiscovered Worlds”  Boston Museum of Science                   2011

“Liquid Universe,” The Universe, History Channel            2009

“Alien Earths,” NOVA                   2008

Science at Stake: Web-based initiative for journalists and general public     2006 – 2008

Art & Science Lectures and Discussions

Ars Electronica Artist Lecture                     July 12

New School (NYC, Art and Science), NYC             Dec 11

Bridge the Gap (Art&Science), NYC             Dec 09

http://storefrontnews.org/exhibitions_events/events?t=71

Web-based interviews & talks & outreach

“Science in the Cinema”, Nautil.us, MoMA, NYC     Jan 14

“Thousand Worlds in the Sky”, Nautil.us, NYC    May 13

“Exoplanets and the fascination of science”, HdA, Germany         March 12

"Problem solving with Smithsonian experts"              July 10

http://www.smithsonianconference.org/expert/planets-like-ours/

“Eye on the Sky: An Astronomy Dialog” (CfA web-based TV interview)             Feb 07

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sed/projects/eots.html

“Detecting Life Beyond Earth”, PBS online Quiz                     Sep 07

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/alien-life.html

Books/ Public Articles

Reading a Planets Spectral Fingerprint, Sky & Telescope (Germany)Sep 2013

Worlds without End, Nautil.us Magazing, NYCJuly 2013

Searching for a Second Earth, Spektrum der Wissenschaften                 July 2013

Search for Extrasolar Planets, Physics Today (German)            Feb 12

Encyclopedia on Astrobiology (field editor on planetary science & author of 14 entries)   2011

Year Million (chapter on life among the stars)        2008

Public lectures

Planetarium Klagenfurt, Austria “Search for exoplanets&Life in the universe”    Nov 13

Yuri’s night Vienna, Search for a Second Earth            April 13

Mindt Student Academy             Oct 12

Planetarium Muenster “Search for exoplanets and Life in the universe”             Oct 12

Keynote lecture NaWik Center for Science communication             Oct 12

Prize lecture Heinz Maier Leibnitz   May 12

German-American Platform, HD “How to find signs of life in the universe?”   May 12

Children’s university 2012, “Den Alien auf der Spur” Heidelberg   April 12

Hous of Astronomy, Heidelberg “Life in the universe?”             July 11

Heidelberger star hour “How to find a habitable planet”    July 11

Heidelberger star hour “Searching for signs of life in a planet’s spectra”            July 11

Renaissance Weekend, Aspen             Sep 10

"Problem solving with Smithsonian experts"    July 10

Public Lecture, UC Santa Cruz, USA “Exoplanets & Life”                April 10

South Carolina Annual Astronomers Meeting, USA “SuperEarths and Life”   March10

CEPSAR Christmas Lecture, Open University, UK “Finding Other Worlds”       Dec 08

Boston Amateur Astronomers, Boston, USA: “Searching for the Pale Blue Dot” Oct 07

Skyscrapers Astro Society, USA “How to Find Fingerprints of Life on Exoplanets” July 07

Willstone High School, 8th grade, lecture at star party                               March07

CfA Observatory Night public lecture, Boston, USA: “Epochs of Life”                Nov 06