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 "Behind the Scenes of Sky & Telescope"

MARCH MEETING via ZOOM (ID & Password Required)
Saturday, March 6, 2020 at 7 PM

Topic: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at What a Sky & Telescope Editor Does
Speaker: Camille Carlisle, Science Editor at Sky & Telescope magazine

 

 

FEATURE ARTICLE:
Rugged Worlds
The two spacecraft sent to Ryugu and Bennu have unveiled asteroids
with formidable surfaces and mysterious histories. 
By Camille Carlisle

 

Sky & Telescope magazine, founded in 1941 by Charles A. Federer Jr. and Helen Spence Federer, has the most experienced staff of any astronomy magazine in the world. Its editors are virtually all amateur or professional astronomers, and every one has built a telescope, written a book, done original research, developed a new product, or otherwise distinguished him or herself. Several of S&T's editors over the years have been honored by the world's astronomers by having asteroids named after them, and our designers and artists have had their extraordinary talents recognized by their peers in the magazine-publishing industry.
 

Camille M. Carlisle was an editorial intern at Sky & Telescope in 2008 and joined the staff as an assistant editor in 2011. In 2014 she took the moniker science editor.

Beginning as an astronomy and astrophysics major at Villanova University, Camille soon discovered that her favorite part of physics lab was writing lab reports. She eventually switched to an English major halfway through her junior year. After graduation she went on to complete a master's degree in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before returning to S&T Camille worked at Science News magazine in Washington, D.C., where her primary role was as the publication’s fact checker. Her articles have appeared in S&T, Science News, Technology Review, and MIT’s webzine Scope. She was also a fellow of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing in 2009-2010.

Camille handles science features for Sky & Telescope, overseeing acquisitions and editing of freelance pieces as well as writing feature articles herself (usually about black holes). She also covers science news for the website and generally does whatever else might land on her desk. She’s fond of chocolate chip cookies and passionate about black holes — she wrote both her bachelor's and master's theses on them (black holes, not cookies) and blogs about them in her online column The Black Hole Files. She is a native of northern California but nowadays can be found weaving her bike through Cambridge traffic.

Date: Saturday, March 6, 2021

Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Eastern