Nancy Atkinson, senior editor of Universe Today
Website: www.nancyatkinson.com
Twitter: @Nancy_A [https://twitter.com/Nancy_A]
Universe Today: www.universetoday.com
Sarah Ballard, Carl Sagan Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle
Website: www.astro.washington.edu/users/sarahba
Twitter: @hubbahubble [https://twitter.com/hubbahubble]
Sarah Dodson-Robinson, assistant professor at the University of Delaware; AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award, 2013
Website: http://web.physics.udel.edu/about/directory/faculty/sarah-dodson-robinson
Bryan Gaensler, director of the Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Extreme Cosmos (Perigee Trade, 2012)
Website: www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~bmg
Twitter: @SciBry [https://twitter.com/SciBry]
Alyssa Goodman, professor at Harvard University and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution
Website: www.cfa.harvard.edu/~agoodman
Twitter: @aagie [https://twitter.com/aagie]
John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
Website: www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/grunsfeld_biography.html#.U8g4kKjgWbE
Twitter: @SciAstro [https://twitter.com/SciAstro]
Astronaut biography: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/grunsfel.html
Mark Krumholz, associate professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz; AAS Helen B. Warner Prize, 2013
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/krumholz
Emily Lakdawalla, senior editor at The Planetary Society
Website: www.planetary.org/about/staff/emily-lakdawalla.html
Twitter: @elakdawalla [https://twitter.com/elakdawalla]
Planetary Society blog: Snapshots from Space [http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/]
Joseph Lazio, radio astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
International Astronomical Union listing: www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/9615/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: www.jpl.nasa.gov
Emily Levesque, Hubble Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder; AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award, 2014
Website: www.emlevesque.com
Katherine Jean Mack, Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Website: www.astrokatie.com
Twitter: @AstroKatie [https://twitter.com/AstroKatie]
Jonathan McDowell, scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Chandra X-ray Center and author of Jonathan’s Space Report
Website: http://planet4589.org
Twitter: @planet4589 [https://twitter.com/planet4589]
Jonathon’s Space Report: www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html
Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute
Website: http://director.stsci.edu
Twitter: @matt_mountain [https://twitter.com/matt_mountain]
Alison Peck, deputy project scientist for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Website: www.alma.cl/~apeck
Marc Postman, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, former principal investigator of NASA’s Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope strategic mission concept study
Website: www.stsci.edu/~postman/Home.html
Scott Ransom, staff astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and instrumentation working group lead at the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational
Website: www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom
Sara Seager, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of TIME’s 25 most influential people in space
Website: http://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu
Twitter: @ProfSaraSeager [https://twitter.com/ProfSaraSeager]
MacArthur Foundation fellow webpage: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/903
Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver chair of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute
Website: www.seti.org/users/jill-tarter
Twitter: @jilltarter [https://twitter.com/jilltarter]
Robert Williams, senior research astronomer and former director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and past president of the International Astronomical Union
Website: www.stsci.edu/~wms
Biography: www.stsci.edu/~wms/Biography.doc
Nadia Zakamska, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University; AAS Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 2014
Website: www.pha.jhu.edu/~zakamska