Episode 10: Nicky Fox - Trailblazer of Trans-disciplinary at NASA

Show Notes:Polar mission, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative, Van Allen Probes mission, and Parker Solar Probe mission (01:05)NASA Heliophysics Division (01:20)Nicky at South by Southwest (03:20)Nicky on the TEDx stage (03:35)Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle (04:35)Solar energy effects on GNSS (06:50)Idea of assessing your presentations from the questions you receive (08:25)Power of ‘I don’t know’ (08:50)ask questions to discover (12:20)Goddard Space Flight Center (15:50)imposter syndrome (16:45)Mentors:Mario Ocuña (27:50)Bob Hoffman (28:05)Barry Mauk (29:30 and 39:40)Applied Physics Lab (APL) (29:20)Living With a Star initiative (29:20)What is Space Weather? (30:45 and 39:00)‘Transdisciplinary’ in science (31:15)Heliospheric System Observatory and diversity of thought (33:25)What is Heliophysics? (32:20)IMAP mission (32:40)Norbert Weiner “fruitful areas for growth in no man’s land between the various established fields” (36:40)MIT Media Lab and Joi Ito - antidisciplinary (36:40)NASA’s Next Generation Principal Investigator (37:40)NASA PI incubator program (37:50)Make sure people are equipped and give them the confidence to do things (44:20)Forms of empowerment (45:40)Book: Hidden Figures (51:45)Find Nicky online:  TwitterNASA"Five-Cut Fridays’ series  Nicky"s playlist