Adriana Ocampo

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Full Name	Adriana Ocampo
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1955(1955-01-05)
Age	69
Birthplace	Barranquilla
Country	Colombia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Adriana Ocampo Biography

Adriana Ocampo is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on January 5, 1955 in Barranquilla, Colombia. Asteroid 177120 Ocampo Uría, discovered by American astronomer Marc Buie at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in 2003, was named after Adriana Ocampo.

Adriana Ocampo worked in a multi-mission image processing laboratory culminating in a publication in 1980. She was a member of the imaging team for the Viking program were she planned, analyzed, and produced images of Mars’ satellites Phobos and Deimos, published by NASA in 1984 and later utilized to plan the Soviet Phobos mission. During this mission the team detected 100 kilometres (62 mi) down through the dense atmosphere of Venus. This was particularly useful to study the “night side” of Venus. Consequently, the team of scientists constructed the night-side maps of Venus, with resolutions 3 to 6 times better than those of Earth-based telescopes.

Ocampo received the Woman of the Year Award in Science from the Comisión Femenil in Los Angeles in 1992. She also received the Advisory Council for Women Award at JPL in 1996 and the Science and Technology Award from the Chicano Federation in 1997.

She and her colleagues were the first to identify a ring of cenotes using satellite images, the only surface impression of the buried Chicxulub crater. This research contributed significantly to the understanding of this impact crater. Ocampo has subsequently led at least seven research expeditions to the Chicxulub site. Ocampo also led the expedition to Belize ejecta site, another crater impact site linked to the Caribbean and Mexico. She continues to search for new impact craters, and with her team, recently reported on a possible crater near Cali, Colombia. As lead executive for the New Frontiers Program, Ocampo was the science coordinator for flight project mission operations in the Galileo Mission and was part of developing strategic plans for the Juno Mission. She received the Woman of the Year in Science award from the Comisión Femenil in 1992. In 2002, she was named one of the most important women in science by the Discover magazine. To commemorate her contributions to space exploration, an asteroid was named after her.

The Chicxulub impact crater is located underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It was hypothesized that this crater was formed by an asteroid leading to mass extinctions on Earth. This was previously postulated in the early 1980s by the physicist Luis Walter Alvarez and his son the geologist Walter Alvarez. However, the only evidence to back this theory was the presence of iridium in the K/T boundary, since this element was found to be mainly present in asteroids and comets. While looking for water resources in Yucatán using satellite images in 1989 and 1990, Ocampo, former NASA archaeologist Kevin O. Pope, and Charles Duller, found cenotes related to this crater. Adriana Ocampo and her colleagues hypothesized that the cenote might be near the impact site, and their findings were later published in Nature in May 1991. In 1991, NASA and The Planetary Society Pasadena sponsored an expedition led by Ocampo and Pope. During this expedition, Ocampo and her colleges discovered two new sites containing two layers consisting of particles that had been ejected upon impact of the asteroid and then flowed away, generating ejecta lobes. The ejecta lobes at Chicxulub are key to understanding Mars better, since most of that planet is covered by ejecta. Ocampo was awarded her master thesis on the Chicxulub impact crater at California State University.

Adriana Ocampo Net Worth

Adriana Ocampo is one of the richest from Colombia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adriana Ocampo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Adriana C. Ocampo Uria was born on January 5, 1955, in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother is Teresa Uria Ocampo, and her father is Victor Alberto Ocampo. Her family moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then emigrated to Pasadena, California, in 1970, at the age of 14, where she was able to study physics and calculus. During high school, Ocampo was part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) troop 509. In 1973, while a junior in high school, she got a summer job at the JPL, where she analyzed images sent by the Viking spacecraft. In 1980, Ocampo attained U.S. citizenship.

Adriana C. Ocampo Uria (born January 5, 1955) is a Colombian planetary geologist and a Science Program Manager at NASA Headquarters. In 1970, Ocampo emigrated to California and completed her Master in Sciences at California State University, Northridge and finished her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands. During high school and graduate studies she worked that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she serves as the lead program executive.

She began her higher education in aerospace engineering at the Pasadena City College while participating in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory sponsored program. Ocampo then transferred to California State University, where she changed her major. Ocampo earned her B.S. degree in geology from California State University, Los Angeles in 1983 while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1983, after graduation, she accepted a full-time job at there as a research scientist. She earned her Master in Science. degree in planetary geology from California State University, Northridge, in 1997, and she finished her Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

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Niels Ranked on the list of most popular Celebrity. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Colombia. Adriana Ocampo celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.

What is Adriana Ocampo known for?

Her research led to the discovery of the Chicxulub impact crater , the signature of a catastrophic meteor strike that likely wiped out the dinosaurs and many other species on Earth. Ocampo has led six research expeditions to that region.

What contribution did Adriana Ocampo make to the science community?

Ocampo was the first to recognize that a ring of sinkholes, or “cenotes,” found in the Yucatan peninsula was related to the buried impact crater. The Chicxulub impact caused the extinction of more than half the Earth’s species, including the dinosaurs, at the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago.

Where is Adriana Ocampo parents from?

Adriana C. Ocampo Uria was born on January 5, 1955, in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother is Teresa Uria Ocampo, and her father is Victor Alberto Ocampo. Her family moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then emigrated to Pasadena, California, in 1970, at the age of 14, where she was able to study physics and calculus.

What are two interesting facts about Adriana C Ocampo?

One of three daughters of Teresa Uria de Ocampo, a Montessori teacher, and Victor Alberto Ocampo, an electrical engineer, Adriana C. Ocampo was born on January 5, 1955, in Barranquilla, Colombia. She was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her interest in space exploration was evident at an early age.

Why do you think crater chains are rare on Earth?

Earth tends to hide its craters. “Wind and rain erode them, sediments fill them in, and the tectonic recycling of Earth’s crust completely obliterates them,” says Ocampo. On the Moon, there are millions of well-preserved craters. On Earth, “so far we’ve managed to find only about 174.”