Episode 10: Nicky Fox - Trailblazer of Trans-disciplinary at NASA
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Thu 29 Aug 2019
- Episode Link
- None
Show Notes:
- Polar mission, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative, Van Allen Probes mission, and Parker Solar Probe mission (01:05)
- NASA Heliophysics Division (01:20)
- Nicky at South by Southwest (03:20)
- Nicky on the TEDx stage (03:35)
- Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle (04:35)
- Solar energy effects on GNSS (06:50)
- Idea of assessing your presentations from the questions you receive (08:25)
- Power of ‘I don’t know’ (08:50)
- ask questions to discover (12:20)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (15:50)
- imposter syndrome (16:45)
- Mentors:
- Mario Ocuña (27:50)
- Bob Hoffman (28:05)
- Barry Mauk (29:30 and 39:40)
- Applied Physics Lab (APL) (29:20)
- Living With a Star initiative (29:20)
- What is Space Weather? (30:45 and 39:00)
- ‘Transdisciplinary’ in science (31:15)
- Heliospheric System Observatory and diversity of thought (33:25)
- What is Heliophysics? (32:20)
- IMAP mission (32:40)
- Norbert Weiner “fruitful areas for growth in no man’s land between the various established fields” (36:40)
- MIT Media Lab and Joi Ito - antidisciplinary (36:40)
- NASA’s Next Generation Principal Investigator (37:40)
- NASA PI incubator program (37:50)
- Make sure people are equipped and give them the confidence to do things (44:20)
- Forms of empowerment (45:40)
- Book: Hidden Figures (51:45)
- Find Nicky online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
