Dr. Natalie Batalha will describe the latest discoveries of NASA’s Kepler Mission and the possibilities for
finding inhabited environments in the not-so-distant future. Dr. Batalha is a world renowned research
astronomer in the Space Sciences Division of NASA Ames Research Center and as a Kepler Mission
Scientist. She has been involved since the Kepler proposal stage and has contributed to its many
different scientific aspects, from studying the stars themselves to detecting and understanding the
planets they harbor.