Dr. Margaret “Maggie” Turnbull is an astrobiologist whose expertise is in identifying planetary systems that may be capable of supporting life as we know it. As a part of her dissertation, Maggie developed the Catalog of Habitable Stellar Systems (HabCat) with Jill Tarter for use in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). She is currently leading…

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The 2018 Award Selection process includes a community voting period from June 5th – June 7th, 2018.   Please take some time to review all our wonderful nominees and then  enter your vote for your top two choices.

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