President (Volunteer)
Von Braun Astronomical Society
Brownsboro, Alabama, United States
Alex has been gazing at the sky for over 40 years, and educating others about her passion for almost the same amount of time. Her early career was in the media, where she worked behind and in front of the TV camera and radio microphone, hosting an astronomy TV show on the BBC and writing childrens space books for DK. Memorably hosting on radio for the 1999 total eclipse of the Sun in the UK, Alex has also recorded pieces to camera while walking backwards up numerous observatory staircases and ladders.
Her first planetarium was a 26 seat GotoE5 theater that she ran while an astrophysics student at the University of Leicester in the UK. She has built, upgraded and refurbished a number of planetariums and presented in fixed and portable domes with a variety of technology. She founded the team that is now NSC Creative, producing full dome immersive planetarium shows, and is an advocate for compelling storytelling in the theater. She loves presenting live - whether using the A3P at the Von Braun Astronomical Society or full dome digital universe software. Her most nerve wracking astronomy moment was doing a tour of the known universe out to the microwave background - live - to Sir Stephen Hawking in 2005 using Digital Sky in the then new installation at Chabot Space and Science Center.
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9D-4 - Grounded: Embracing the Earth-bound Planetarium 'Simulation'
Friday, August 23, 2024
3:00 PM – 3:50 PM US PDT
