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Carol Paty is an academic expert in space, planetary science and astrobiology. As a planetary and space physicist, she specializes in studying ice giant magnetospheres, moon-magnetosphere interactions, and icy moon interiors with simulations and spacecraft observations. Carol is a co-investigator on NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) and has been actively developing new mission strategies to explore Uranus and the Neptune-Triton system. She also participated on the Trident team for the Phase A Discovery study and was involved in the Neptune Odyssey planetary mission concept study. Carol currently sits on the steering committee of the Outer Planets Assessment Group and recently served on a National Academies panel for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey.

Recent Media:
Something strange happened during Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986 (Gizmodo, Nov. 11, 2024)
NASA's Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter's moon, UO professor helped develop tools onboard (KATU, Oct. 14, 2024)
How do you find an alien ocean? Margaret Kivelson figured it out (The New York Times, Oct. 8, 2018)