Here’s my full CV and publications list.
Aomawa Shields
University of California, Irvine
Department of Physics & Astronomy
4129 Frederick Reines Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-4575
Interests: Climate and habitability of extrasolar planets orbiting low-mass stars. Multi-dimensional climate models. Interdisciplinary science education and communication.
Education:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrobiology, August 2014
“The Effect of Star-Planet Interactions on Planetary Climate”
Supervised by Victoria Meadows and Cecilia Bitz
M.Sc., Astronomy, December 2011
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
MFA, Acting, June 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Sc.B., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, June 1997
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
Graduated with High Honors, June 1993
Recent Appointments:
UC Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA
Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor (2020-Present)
UC Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor (2016-Present)
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2017)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2011–2014)
Academic Mentor, Pre-Major in Astronomy Program (2013–2014)
NSF IGERT Trainee (2009–2011)
Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy (2009–2014)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Scientific Analysis Associate, Observatory Planning and Scheduling Team (2008–2009)
Scientific Analysis Assistant, Science User Support Team (2005–2008)
Selected Fellowships, Awards, and Honors:
“Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplanetary Synergy”, 2019
NSF CAREER Award (2018-2023)
NASA Habitable Worlds Program Grant (2017-2020)
Clare Boothe Luce Professorship (2016-2021)
The Origins Project Postdoctoral Award Lectureship (2016)
Kavli Fellow (2015)
TED Fellow (2015)
Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, American Astronomical Society 225th Meeting (2015)
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2017)
UC President’s Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (2014-2016)
First Place, Astrobiology Science Conference Student Poster Competition (2012)
“Audience Choice”, US FameLab Astrobiology communication competition (2012)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2011-2014)
Member, Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in Earth System
Science Professional Development Program (MS PHD’S PDP) (2011-2013)
NASA Group Achievement Award, Spitzer Science Operations Planning Team (2010)
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (2009-2011)
NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award, Spitzer Observatory Planning/Scheduling Team (2009)
Recent Publications:
Rushby, A., Shields, A. L., Wolf, E. T., Lague, M, Burgasser, A. (2020) The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System, ApJ, 904, 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abbe04
Palubski, I., Shields, A. L., and Deitrick, R. (2020) Habitability and Water Loss Limits on Eccentric Planets Orbiting Main-sequence Stars, ApJ, 890, 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab66b2
Rushby, A., Shields, A. L., and Joshi, M. (2019) The Effect of Land Fraction and
Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution on the Planetary Albedo of Terrestrial Worlds,
ApJ, 887, 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4da6
Shields, A. L., Bitz, C.M., and Palubski, I. (2019) Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets, ApJL, 884, 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab44ce
Shields, A. L. and Carns, R. C. Hydrohalite Salt-albedo Feedback Could Cool M- dwarf Planets, Astrophysical Journal, in review.
Wolf, E.T., Shields, A. L., Kopparapu, R. K., Haqq-Misra, J., Toon, O. B. (2017) Constraints on Climate and Habitability for Earth-like Exoplanets Determined from a General Circulation Model, Astrophysical Journal, 837, 2.
Shields, A. L., Ballard, S., Johnson, J. (2016) The Habitability of Planets Orbiting M-dwarf Stars, Physics Reports, 663:1-38.
Shields, A. L., Barnes, R., Agol, E., Charnay, B., Bitz, C. M., Meadows, V. S. (2016) The Effect of Orbital Configuration on the Possible Climates and Habitability of Kepler-62f, Astrobiology, 16, 6.
Shields, A. L., Bitz, C. M., Meadows, V. S., Joshi, M. M., Robinson, T. D. (2014) Spectrum- driven Planetary Deglaciation Due to Increases in Stellar Luminosity, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 785, 9.
Shields, A. L., Meadows, V. S., Bitz, C. M., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Joshi, M. M., Robinson, T. D. (2013) The Effect of Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution and Ice-Albedo Feedback on the Climate of Extrasolar Planets, Astrobiology, 13, 8.
Other Publications:
Shields, A. L. (2021) A Professor Describes How She Found Her Voice to Speak Truth About Systemic Racism and Exclusion (Opinion), Inside Higher Ed, March 5, 2021.
Shields, A. L. (2021) Remaining Publicly Silent in the Face of Overtly Racist and Exclusionary Attitudes has a Cost, Inside Higher Ed, February 19, 2021
Shields, A. L. (2016) The Rising Stargirls Teaching and Activity Handbook.
Press Coverage:
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson Season 12, Episode 22: “Cosmic Queries – Exoplanetary Exploration with Dr. Aomawa Shields”, August 31, 2021
“Black Futures Campaign”, University of California, Office of the President, January 29, 2021
“The Limit Does Not Exist” Podcast episode 111: “Star Power”, October 30, 2020
“Adler Planetarium’s Online Exhibit “Life on Other Worlds”, Adler Planetarium, October 13, 2020
Science Channel show How the Universe Works Episodes “Aliens of the Microcosmos”, “Curse of the White Dwarf”, and “Mystery of Alien Worlds”, August 5, 2020
“5 Women Writing About Science“, Wiki.Ezvid.com, July 8, 2020
Tonya Bolden’s book Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM March 16, 2020
“How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets”
New Scientist, August 7, 2019
“Oceans, Beaches, Cosmic Shorelines: Our changing views of habitable planets”
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program feature, June 18, 2019
“The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Anniversary is a Reminder of the Importance
of Women in STEM”, Teen Vogue Magazine, June 5, 2019
“Modeling the Climates of Worlds Beyond Earth”, Earth and Space Science News,
January 14, 2019
PBS NOVA Video on my non-traditional career path, September 8, 2018
“Three UCI School of Physical Sciences Faculty Earn Prestigious NSF Early Career Awards”
UCI School of Physical Sciences Communications, June 18, 2018
“UCI Astronomer Wins NASA Habitable Worlds Grant to Study Surface Reflectivity of Exoplanets” UCI News, October 23, 2017
“What Do You Have to Do to Get a Water Covered Planet Around Here?“, Astrobites, June 1, 2017
“Astrobiology’s Rising Star“, UC News, February 7, 2017
“Faculty Highlight: Aomawa Shields“, Astronomy in Color, September 29, 2016
“A Planet 1,200 Light-Years Away is a Good Prospect for a Habitable World“, UCLA Newsroom, May 26, 2016
“Why I Changed My Life: Acting, Astronomy, and a One-of-a-Kind Career“, Glamour, May 10, 2016
“The Origins Project Announces Recipient of $10,000 Postdoctoral Lectureship Award“, The Origins Project, February 24, 2016
“Astronomer, actor, role model: TED Fellow Aomawa Shields looks for life on other planets“, TED blog, July 10, 2015
“NSF Fellow Pairs Art, Astronomy to Hook Girls on Science”, Education Week, March 18, 2015
Talking exoplanets and alien life in WIRED magazine piece “The Best Bet for Alien Life May Be in Planetary Systems Very Different From Ours“, January 16, 2015
A Warmer Planetary Haven Around Cool Stars, as Ice Warms Rather Than Cools, University of Washington News Release, July 18, 2013
Recent Invited Talks:
Virtual Talk, NCAR, Annual 26th CESM Workshop, Alternate Earths Sessions, June 17, 2021
Virtual Colloquium, Arizona State University, ASU School of Earth and Space Ex- ploration (SESE), December 2, 2020
Virtual Colloquium, University of Washington, November 12, 2020
Virtual Talk and Discussion, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Exoplanet Group, September 28, 2020
Virtual Colloquium, Georgia Tech, September 21, 2020
Virtual Talk, THAI Workshop 2020, September 15, 2020
Virtual Talk, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Exostars Redux Conference: “The Star-Planet Climate Connection: Energy Budgets for Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets”, August 26, 2020
Keynote address, Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), UC Irvine, Jan 19, 2020
Presentation, Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop, “Astrobiology for Astronomers”, Caltech, July 18, 2019
Presentation, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Conference:“Planet-Star Connections in the Ear of TESS and Gaia”, Santa Barbara, CA May 24, 2019
Chalk Talk, Friends of the KITP, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,Santa Barbara, CA, May 15, 2019
Plenary talk, American Astronomical Society, 233rd AAS Meeting, Seattle, WA January 2019
Presentation, UC Irvine, School of Physical Sciences, Breakfast Lecture Series, May 8, 2018
Presentation, UC Irvine, School of Physical Sciences, May 8, 2018
Presentation, California Institute of Technology, ExSoCal2017, September 18-19, 2017
Presentation, Breakthrough Discuss Conference, Stanford University, April 20-21, 2017
Colloquium, UCLA, April 12, 2017
Colloquium, Cal Poly Pomona, November 10, 2016
Colloquium, Carnegie Observatories, May 24, 2016
Seminar, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UC San Diego, May 18, 2016
Origins Project Public Lecture and Colloquia, Arizona State University, April 4-8, 2016
ITC Colloquium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, February 25, 2016
Seminar, Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University, February 23, 2016
Seminar, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz, November 20, 2015
Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Beckman Center of the National Academies, November 5, 2015
Colloquium, University of Rochester, October 14, 2015
AST Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 12, 2015
Astrophysics Colloquium, UC Irvine, September 8, 2015
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