Speaking List



Speaking List for Dr. Phil Plait

Below is a list of some of the venues at which Dr. Plait has spoken. The list is current as of June 2009.

Scientific Venues

American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting

American Astronomical Society meeting

American Association of Physics Teachers meeting

American Association of Variable Star Observers meeting

.Astronomy Conference. Online conference held in the UK

California Academies of Science

Communicating Astronomy to the Public meeting

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

NASA Kennedy Space Center

Parkes Radio Telescope Observatory (Australia)

Southwest Research Institute

Space Science Institute

Space Telescope Science Institute

Museums

Arthur J. Dyer Observatory, Nashville, TN

Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL

Bear Branch Nature Center, Westminster, MD

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, CA

Cincinnati Observatory, OH

Coca Cola Science Center, Columbia, GA

Exploration Place, Wichita, KS

Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, CO

GWIZ, Sarasota, FL

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Kalamazoo Nature Center

Meadowside Nature Center, Rockville, MD

Morrison Planetarium, San Francisco, CA

Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT

Pittsburgh International Science and Technology Festival

Rose Center and Hayden Planetarium, NYC, NY

Southeast Planetarium Association, Cocoa, FL

Sudekum Planetarium, Nashville, TN

Sydney Museum of Science, Sydney, Australia

The Tech museum, San Jose, CA

Universities/Educational Institutions

Adrian College, Michigan

Arkansas Governor’s School, Little Rock AR

California State University at Fresno

California State University at Northridge

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Foothill College, California

Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania

Modesto Junior College, California

New England College, New Hampshire

Reedley College, California

Sacramento State, California

Sonoma State University, California

Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Yale University, CT

Conventions/Special Interest Meetings/Other

(James Randi’s) “The Amaz!ng Meeting” (2003 – 2009), Las Vegas, NV,

Ft. Lauderdale FL, including speaking on a cruise to Alaska and to the

Galapagos Islands

Alberta Science Festival, Alberta, Canada

American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting,

St. Louis, MO

American Association of Physics Teachers annual meeting, Sacramento, CA

American Astronomical Society annual meeting, Nashville, TN

American Physical Society meeting, Denver, CO (2009)

AstroFest 2004, Kankakee, IL

AstroFest 2009, San Diego, CA

Astronomy Day, Greenbelt, MD

Australian Skeptics annual meeting, Sydney, Australia

BayCon science fiction convention, San Jose, CA

Boise Astronomical Society Star Party, Boise, ID

California Science Teachers Association annual meeting (2003-2006), CA

Canberra Skeptics, Canberra, Australia

Center for Inquiry – HQ, Amherst, NY

Center for Inquiry - West, Los Angeles, CA

Comic Con, San Diego

Committee on the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP),

Albuquerque, NM

Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, CO

Davis (California) Star Show

DragonCon, Atlanta, GA

L.A. Worldcon IV, Anaheim, CA

Las Cruces Astronomical Society, La Cruces, NM

Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society, Concord, CA

Mt. Tam Astronomy Speaker Series, San Francisco, CA

Main Mission 2000 science fiction convention, NYC, NY

Northbay Breakfast Club

Northeast Astronomy Forum, Rockland, NY

Novato Youth Center, Novato, CA

Riverside Telescope Makers Association, Big Bear, CA

Royal Astronomical Society, Calgary, Canada

Sonoma County Astronomical Society

Sonoma County Office of Education, Windsor, CA

Seattle Astronomical Society banquet, Seattle, WA

Shore Leave 20 (Star Trek convention), Towson, MD

Sons in Retirement, Santa Rosa, CA

Space Education Initiative, Madison, WI

Space Fest (2007 and 2009)

Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA

Media Interviews

Radio BBC

ABC (Australia radio)

Charles Goyette radio show on Air America

Paul Harris Show

The SETI Institute’s “Are We Alone?” (regular feature: “Brains on Vacation”)

SciFi Overdrive

NPR’s Tech Nation

Radio America

Penn Radio

“Environmentally Sound”

The Jay Thomas Show

The Takeaway

Coast to Coast AM (numerous times)

… and dozens more.

Television

“Known Universe” –Discovery Channel series

“Engineering the Universe” – National Geographic series

“Hubble’s Amazing Universe” - National Geographic documentary

“Is It Real?” - National Geographic series

“Seven Signs of the Apocalypse” – History Channel documentary

“Call For Help” on TechTV

CNN

Discovery Canada

Fox News

MSNBC – “The Abrams Report”

Network of the World, London, UK (via telephone)

Pax TV – “Encounters with the Unexplained”

SciFI Channel – “Countdown to Doomsday”

KFTY Santa Rosa (CA)—numerous interviews for local TV news

10+ Live shots from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for December 1999

lunar eclipse

30+ Live shots from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for Venus Transit,

June 2004

Podcasts

American Freethought

Are We Alone?



Astronomy cast

AudioMartini

BBC Sky at Night

Blogging Heads TV

CERN/Large Hadron Collider podcast

Chris Pirillo Show

Cosmic Tea Party

Discovery Channel poodcast

EUSci

Illinoise

Little Atoms

Point of Inquiry

The Reason-Driven Podcast

Skepchicks in the Lounge

Skepticality

Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe

The Skeptic’s Tank

Slacker Astronomy

Talking Head TV

This Week in Science

Two Smokin’ Hot Freethinkers

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