Lamont-Doherty Public Lecture Series
NASA's Billion $$$ Samples: Space Rocks, Open Science, and the Era of AI
Society invests a lot of taxpayer money into building spacecraft and robots that fly to the Moon, Mars, and asteroids to collect samples and return them back to Earth. These samples have been analyzed in laboratories worldwide, generating vast amounts of data that have allowed humanity to gain insights into the origins of the universe, our solar system, and life on Earth. Today, Lamont-Doherty is NASA's sample data repository, where these data sets are made globally accessible so that further knowledge can be extracted in the future.
Join us this Earth Month for a lecture that follows the exciting and distinctive career path of Doherty Senior Research Scientist Kerstin Lehnert, as she tells the story of samples from space and explains NASA’s choice of selecting Lamont-Doherty as their digital home. The lecture will explore Lamont-Doherty’s leadership in making data and samples openly accessible to researchers and the general public, a role that matters more than ever in the era of AI.
Kerstin Lehnert
Kerstin Lehnert has been at Lamont since 1996. Over the past 20 years, her research has focused on developing online data systems that enable scientists worldwide to share, find, and access data and samples generated as part of their research. The systems she created have become essential infrastructure for scientific research. Her contributions to building research infrastructure and fostering collaboration across the geoscience community have been recognized internationally, including by the European Geosciences Union (Ian McHard Medal), the German Mineralogical Society (Doris Schachner Medal), and the American Geophysical Union (Edward A. Flinn III Award).
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