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Tanya Harrison Ph.D.

CEO and Co-Founder
Earth & Planetary Institute of Canada (EPIC)
Participe à 2 sessions

Dr. Tanya Harrison is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Earth and Planetary Institute of Canada (EPIC). She has worked as a scientist and mission operations specialist on multiple NASA missions to Mars, including the Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance rovers, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and is now a Co-Investigator on the Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Rover Mission. Bridging worlds, as well as sectors in the space ecosystem, Tanya was previously the Director of Strategic Science Initiatives, and later Director of Science for Impact, at Planet Labs, and the Director of Research for Arizona State University’s NewSpace Initiative. In addition to her role at EPIC, she is currently a Fellow of the University of British Columbia’s Outer Space Institute and the Aurelia Institute. Tanya holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario, a Masters in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Wesleyan University, and a B.Sc. in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Washington. Her honours include two NASA Group Achievement Awards, the Amelia Earhart Fellowship for women in aerospace and the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Canada’s most prestigious doctoral award.

Sessions auxquelles Tanya Harrison Ph.D. participe

Mercredi 28 Avril, 2021

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Navigating a Non-Linear Career Path
20 minutes, 1:30 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT
  Partie de: Panneau de la SGRC

Tanya Harrison Ph.D., Earth & Planetary Institute of Canada (EPIC) (Conférencier.ère)

Sometimes your vision of what your career path will be and what it actually ends up being can be quite different from one another. Dr. Tanya Har...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Canadian Perspectives Panel
1 heure, 3:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
  Partie de: Panneau de la SGRC

Panel

Sarah Banks, Environment Canada (Panéliste)

Parshati Patel, Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (Panéliste)

Tanya Harrison Ph.D., Earth & Planetary Institute of Canada (EPIC) (Panéliste)

Morgan Crowley PhD, Natural Resources Canada (Panéliste)

Lynn Moorman, Mount Royal University (Modérateur.rice)