University of Hawaii (PhD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor)
Awards
Klumpke-Roberts Award (1995) Harold C. Urey Prize (1996) Carl Sagan Medal (2002)
Scientific career
Fields
Planetary science Astronomy Geology
Institutions
Space Science Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology
External videos
"Target: Jupiter: Heidi B. Hammel at ANU", September 2011
"Heidi Hammel: Becoming an Astronomer", Apr 23, 2012
Heidi B. Hammel (born March 14, 1960) is a planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. She was part of the team imaging Neptune from Voyager 2 in 1989. She led the team using the Hubble Space Telescope to view Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact with Jupiter in 1994. She has used the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope to study Uranus and Neptune, discovering new information about dark spots, planetary storms and Uranus' rings. In 2002, she was selected as an interdisciplinary scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Hammel spends increasing time as a science communicator. She is the 2002 recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal given to a scientist whose communications have greatly enhanced the general public's understanding of planetary science.[2] She was one of Discover Magazine's 50 most important women in science in 2003.[3] In addition to her public-facing work at NASA, she became the executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in 2010.[4][5]
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Heidi B. Hammel (born March 14, 1960) is a planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. She was part of the team imaging Neptune...
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Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2004. Retrieved 13 June 2007. Hammel, Heidi B. (5 September 2006). "Uranus nears Equinox" (PDF). A report from the...
Sánchez-Lavega, Agustín; Sromovsky, Lawrence; Fry, Patrick; Luszcz-Cook, Statia; Hammel, Heidi (2018-02-15). "A New Dark Vortex on Neptune". The Astronomical Journal...
New Single At AMAs". MTV News. MTV Networks. Retrieved November 20, 2010. Hammel, Sara (November 21, 2010). "Miley Cyrus to Sing 'Forgiveness and Love' at...
Sykes 2017 Louise Prockter 2018 Faith Vilas 2019 Phil Nicholson 2020 Heidi B. Hammel 2021 Mark Showalter List of astronomy awards "Harold Masursky Award...
Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2012. Hammel, Sara (11 November 2011). "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: Adriana Lima...
Archived from the original on October 6, 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2021. Hammel, Sara (October 3, 2011). "Jenna Fischer Welcomes a Son". People. Archived...
The Right Weekend". Huffington Post. Retrieved October 12, 2021. Tyler Hammel (October 16, 2020). "Final RAM member avoids prison after cooperating"....
doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-081619-052855. S2CID 212832169. Ingersoll, A. P.; Hammel, H. B.; Spilker, T. R.; Young, R. E. (June 1, 2005). "Outer Planets: The...
NASA. Archived from the original on 15 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-20. Hammel et al. (1995), p. 1740 Sanchez-Lavega et al. (2001) Rogers (1995), p. 223...
German-Jewish Women Writers 1900-38. Eds. Godela Weiss-Sussex and Andrea Hammel. Martin Meidenbauer Verlag: München, 2009 and Institute of Germanic & Romance...
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"Target: Jupiter: Heidi B. Hammel at ANU", September 2011