Salinas AgTech Meetup: Red Planet Meets Green Science

Join the AgTech Salinas Meetup group on Tuesday, May 16th for pizza, beer and insightful AgTech discussion. Help grow our group and bring a friend! Doors open at 6:00pm and the official program begins at 6:30pm.

By Elon Musk's schedule, the first colonists will arrive on Mars within 10 years. They'll have to eat. Top scientists from the leading agricultural companies in the Salinas Valley will offer real world solutions for would be settlers on a real new world.

Featured Speaker:

Dr. James H. Newman assumed the position of Chairman, Space Systems Academic Group on 01 October 2016. Prior to his designation as the Chairman, Dr. Newman was the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Acting Provost from 5 October 2015 to 29 August 2016.

NASA selected Dr. Newman into its astronaut program in 1990. Dr. Newman’s space flight experience includes four missions aboard the Space Shuttles Discovery, Endeavour, and Columbia.

Newman came to NPS’ Space Systems Academic Group in 2006 as a NASA Visiting Professor. He subsequently transferred from NASA in 2008 to the Department of the Navy to accept a tenure-track professorship at NPS.

Newman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and a Master of Arts degree and Doctorate in Physics from Rice University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. After graduating from Rice University in 1984, Newman performed post-doctoral research and remains an adjunct professor in Rice’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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