We are excited to launch our Senior Fellows Council (SFC), a significant development in our continued mission to create Lifelong Community. The SFC will help us shape all aspects of Senior Fellows programming and community development, ensuring we continue to support the evolving needs, career paths, and interests of our cohorts. Comprising five Senior Fellows, … Continued
Schmidt Science Fellow Ethan Perets is passionate about forging closer links between philosophy and science. And his vision is to see philosophers embedded in every lab. Ethan has been a discipline-hopping trailblazer since he was in high school. His studies ultimately led to a PhD in Chemistry at Yale, but as a teen he got … Continued
“It is very, very special. The light is somehow pure. It is very difficult to put into words.” Glaciologist Dr. Sasha Montelli has a clear and deep respect for Antarctica. He has traveled to the polar regions on three occasions, but that has not dimmed his awe. Sasha is a 2019 Schmidt Science Fellow, and in … Continued
It’s more than 50 years since the first Landsat mission was launched, and in half a century a series of nine satellites have beamed back scientifically valuable and visually stunning images of our planet’s surface. However, when clouds obscure the Earth (as they frequently do), the images have been considered useless and left to gather … Continued