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DR. SETH SHOSTAK
Seth Shostak at
Arecibo.
Courtesy, SPACE.com
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Dr. Seth Shostak is
Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in
Mountain View, California. He has an undergraduate degree in physics
from Princeton University, and a doctorate in astronomy from the
California Institute of Technology. For much of his career, Seth
conducted radio astronomy research on galaxies and has published
approximately fifty papers in professional journals. During more than a
decade, he worked at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, in Groningen,
The Netherlands, using the Westerbork Radio Synthesis
Telescope.
He has written several hundred popular magazine and web articles on
various topics in astronomy, technology, film and television. He
lectures on astronomy and other subjects at the California Academy of
Sciences, and gives approximately 70 talks annually at both educational
and corporate institutions. For the last five years, Seth has been a
Distinguished Speaker for the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics.
Frequently interviewed for radio and TV, Seth has recently been seen
and/or heard on Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, History Channel, the
BBC, Ted Koppel's "Nightline", "The O'Reilly Factor", "Good Morning
America", "Larry King Live", "Coast to Coast AM", NPR, CNN News, and
National Geographic Television. He is the host of a one-hour weekly
radio program on astrobiology
Are We Alone?
He has edited and contributed to a half dozen books. His first popular
tome,
Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life
appeared in March, 1998. In 1999, it was chosen
as a Book of the Month Club science selection. He has also coauthored
an astrobiology textbook,
Life in the Universe, and his
latest book is
Cosmic Company. In 2004, he
won the Klumpke-Roberts Prize for the popularization of
astronomy.
Seth was the peer expert reader in the fields of SETI, cosmology, and
astronomy for the 2005 Ray Kurzweil book
The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend
Biology.
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