{"id":138229,"date":"2021-03-30T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=138229"},"modified":"2021-03-30T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:46:21","slug":"20-trailblazing-women-in-astronomy-astrophysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/30\/20-trailblazing-women-in-astronomy-astrophysics\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna among \u201820 trailblazing women in astronomy and astrophysics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Heidi B. Hammel (Image courtesy: MSN<\/abbr>.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March marks Women\u2019s History Month, celebrating contributions to culture, history and society. To commemorate, Microsoft Network<\/em> recognized 20 trailblazing women in astronomy and astrophysics<\/a>, who have played crucial roles in advancing our understanding of the cosmos. Accolades among the honorees range from planet discovery to comet tracking.<\/p>\n

University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa Institute for Astronomy<\/a> (IfA<\/abbr>) alumna Heidi B. Hammel<\/strong> earned a spot on the distinguished list. The award-winning planetary scientist currently serves as an interdisciplinary scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA\u2019s flagship exploration mission. It\u2019s Hammel\u2019s latest ground-based telescope mission which also includes previous planetary astronomy projects on Maunakea with Gemini Observatory<\/a> and W.M. Keck Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hammel earned a PhD<\/abbr> in physics and astronomy from IfA<\/abbr> in 1988. During graduate school, she conducted research on the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> 88-inch<\/a> telescope atop Maunakea. In 1996, the American Astronomical Society<\/a> awarded Hammel the Urey Prize for her outstanding achievement in planetary science, and the Sagan Medal in 2002 for effective communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public.<\/p>\n

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Hammel as a grad student at the 88-inch telescope on Maunakea, circa 1986 (Image courtesy: D. Cruikshank)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-winning planetary scientist Heidi B. Hammel earned a spot on the distinguished MSN<\/abbr> list to mark Women\u2019s History Month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,35,1467,9],"class_list":["post-138229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138253,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138229\/revisions\/138253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}