Dr. Lucy Jones was a seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey for thirty years, most recently as Science Advisor for Risk Reduction. She created the Great ShakeOut Drill, an earthquake preparation experiment that by 2016 included 53 million participants around the world. A research associate at Caltech, she holds a PhD in geophysics from MIT and a BA in Chinese language and literature from Brown University. She lives in Southern California.
Energy expert David Blume discussed rising domestic fuel costs and sustainable agricultural alternatives. Followed by space historian Robert Zimmerman, who outlined the space race and NASA's private-sector transformation.