Socializing with Scientists
Socializing with Scientists presents the untold stories of immunologists, neuroscientists, environmental chemists, and more, recounting how their early life built their current life, and sharing what they do now to make the world a better place. And how do they define success, anyway? Listen to find out the surprising secrets of curious people.
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Socializing with Scientists
Brian Walsh peers at Earth from the moon (he's a space physicist)
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To prepare for the moment his telescope landed on the moon, Brian read sports psychology books. "You're not going to read Kepler or Isaac Newton [to learn] about how to deal with high pressure situations," he said. It turned out he didn't actually need much help.
Brian Walsh is a space physicist and professor at Boston University, and he and his team created a telescope that landed on the moon last year. The telescope LEXI hitched a ride on a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace, and studied the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field.
Solar wind and geomagnetic storms can meddle with, or even harm, human-made technologies like satellites, GPS, and the electrical grid; now, Brian wants to protect Earth from these space phenomena. His new research suggests that putting mass into certain regions of space could divert geomagnetic storms away from Earth. (Here's a preprint of his work.)
Brian is on Bluesky and his research center is on Instagram.
