Description: Community Ecologist Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies how plants co-opt other organisms to aid in their own defense and, to what extent sustainable land-use practices support biodiversity conservation. #Groundbreaker
Description: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Obervatory’s Senior Astrophysicist, Dr. Christine Jones Forman, is attempting to measure how large scale structures in the Universe grow from early times to the present through the Chandra Xray Oberservatory. She is the Smithsonian’s Director of the Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe. #Groundbreaker
Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.