Pamela L. Gay

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pamela L. Gay
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Dec 12, 1973(1973-12-12)
Age	51
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Pamela L. Gay Biography

Pamela L. Gay is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on December 12, 1973 in California, United States. Pamela L. Gay (born 12 December 1973) is an American woman an astronomer educator, podcaster and writer. She is most well-known for her work with astronomical podcasting and citizen science astronomy initiatives. She is a Senior Education and Communications Specialist as well as Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute. Her research interests are in the analysis of data from astronomy, and also analyzing the impact of citizen science projects. Gay has also been seen as herself in a variety of documentaries on television.

Gay hosts with Fraser Cain on the Astronomy Podcast, an educational show that launched in September 2006, along with Fraser Cain. The show explores a variety of subjects, including Cosmology, solar systems black holes, and myths concerning astronomy. The show aims to communicate “not only what we know, but how we know what we know,” according to Cain.

In 2008, Gay initiated brainstorming via e-mail on possible “new media” programs for 2009, the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The discussion included Michael Koppelman from Slacker Astronomy, Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy, and others involved in the IYA, and resulted in the 365 Days Of Astronomy podcast. The podcast was to publish one episode per day over the entire year of 2009 and was originally planned to only run for that year. One of the cornerstones of the IYA was to make astronomy affordable and accessible to everyone in America. To do this 50-power telescopes called Galileoscopes were available for purchase online for only $10 each. “You can actually see the rings of Saturn,” exclaims Gay. She was also involved in the New Media Task Group, “We need to communicate all these ideas and get people who don’t want to go outside involved online,” says Gay.

Since 2009, Gay has been a judge for the Parsec Awards, a set of annual awards created to recognize excellence in science fiction podcasts and podcast novels.

Gay was among the co-creators of Slacker Astronomy who was also the show’s “on air” personality for the show from February 2005 to the end of the first version in September.

Pamela L. Gay Net Worth

Pamela L. Gay is one of the richest Astronomer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pamela L. Gay 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In California, Gay has stated that one of her first sources of inspiration was while living there in California is “getting to see contrails of the space shuttle as it came to land at Edwards Air Force Base,” in addition to watching footage from Voyager missions as they passed Jupiter in 1979 when I was five.

Gay was raised in California and then moved into Westford, Massachusetts where she was a student at Westford Academy. Gay has an BS diploma with a major in Astrophysics in the field of Astrophysics from Michigan State University in 1996 and received a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Texas, Austin in 2002. Gay is the Senior Education and Communications Specialist as well as Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. In the past, Gay was the Director of Technology and Citizen Science for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and, prior to that as an assistant researcher at the STEM center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Gay was a member of the Council (Board of Directors) for the American Association of Variable Star Observers as well as their Educational Committee Chair.

Gay’s work on Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers examined the Zooniverse project, which developed from the Galaxy Zoo initiative, which started in 2007. Researchers citing this study concluded that “[p]ublic response was extremely positive,” garnering over 60 million classifications.

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Gay takes part in astronomy popularization activities and advocates collaboration “to create a community of science within the public.” She is a regular astronomy participant in the Virtual Star Party, a weekly video cast featuring professional and amateur astronomers, which was featured in a documentary by Google released at the company’s I/O keynote address in San Francisco in June 2012.

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Pamela Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Pamela L. Gay celebrates birthday on December 12 of every year.

Top Facts about Pamela L. Gay

1. Pamela L. Gay is an American astronomer born in 1973.
2. She co-hosts the popular astronomy podcast “Astronomy Cast.”
3. Gay is a professor of astronomy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
4. She earned her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin.
5. Gay is known for her work on citizen science projects like CosmoQuest.
6. In 2018, she was awarded the Isaac Asimov Award by the American Humanist Association.
7. Gay has also been recognized for her advocacy for women and LGBTQ+ individuals in STEM fields.
8. She has written several books, including “The Everyday Guide to the Solar System.”
9. Gay has appeared on numerous TV shows and documentaries as an expert commentator.
10. Her research interests include star formation and galaxy evolution.