Jill C. Tarter
SETI Institute
Center for SETI Research
189 Bernardo Ave
Mountain View CA 94043
California (CA)
United States
NCA adherence: United States
Last updated:
July 21, 2018
IAU Status
Active Member
Affiliation(s) within the IAU
Past affiliation(s) within the IAU
- Past President of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (1994-1997)
- Past Vice-President of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (1991-1994)
- Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (2006-2009)
- Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (2000-2003)
- Past Organizing Committee Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (1997-2000)
- Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (1997-2000)
- Past Member of Commission 40 Radio Astronomy (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 47 Cosmology (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 51 Bio-Astronomy (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) (until 2015)
- Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
- Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
- Past Member of Division X Radio Astronomy (until 2012)
Areas of interest
1 - General: 1.2 - Extraterrestrial intelligence, 1.8 - Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.2 - Astrobiology
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.3 - Catalogs
7 - Planetary systems: 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs