NSF-Investments in Research & Discovery

The U.S. National Science Foundation: Investments in Research and Discovery

Rotarian Pat McAloon hosts Josh Chamot, the NSF public affairs specialist for media trends. He has helped lead several of NSF's largest outreach efforts, including the global 2019 announcement of the first image of a black hole, the 2017 press conference pairing gravitational waves with telescope observations to confirm  colliding neutron stars produce gold, and the 2003 relocation of the iconic Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.  He previously held brief positions at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Department of Energy, and was founding editor of the Expert Voices op-ed and features platform for Space.com and its sister site LiveScience.com. He studied meteorites in grad school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, earning his M.S. in Geology in 2000, and double majored in music and geology as an undergrad at the College of William and Mary, earning his B.S. in Geology in 1998.