Valeria Jaramillo

  • Public Education Specialist / UCLA EPSS and NEO Surveyor

Dr. Valeria Jaramillo leads the NEO Surveyor Education & Public Outreach program and works in designing, developing, implementing, and executing education and public outreach programs at the K-12 and undergraduate levels. The goal of all programs is to cultivate and nourish interest in planetary defense and planetary/earth science in today’s youth to cultivate the next generation of planetary defense experts. She received her PhD in 2024 from UCLA in structural geology, geochronology, and tectonics, where she was very active in education and outreach.

Recommended grade range for this talk: 6th-8th

Sessions

  • Near-Earth Objects: Hunting Rocks in Space

    For billions of years, Earth’s landscape has changed slowly. Continents move relative to each other, mountains are worn down by wind and rain—these geologic forces take millions of years! But sometimes, change happens in an instant. A large asteroid impact can reshape the land in seconds! That’s why Principal Investigator Amy Mainzer and her amazing […]