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Kevin Hand is an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at JPL.〔 〕 He is also the founder of Cosmos Education〔〔 and was its president until 2007. He was working at NASA Ames when he was inspired to form Cosmos Education in 1999 after getting a grant from the Earth and Space Foundation to tour African schools to talk about how education relates to space research.〔 〕 Hand studied psychology and physics as an undergraduate at Dartmouth.〔 〕 He earned a master's degree at Stanford University in mechanical engineering while also working as a public policy research associate at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC).〔〔 〕 He chose the question of whether Europa's putative ocean could harbor life as his Geological & Environmental Sciences PhD dissertation topic, under the direction of Christopher Chyba,〔 earning the doctorate in 2007.〔 While a PhD student, he was chosen by James Cameron to take marine biology samples from hydrothermal vents in subsea expeditions to the mid-Atlantic ridge and East Pacific Rise.〔 He was a featured scientist in Cameron's 2005 IMAX documentary, Aliens of the Deep. At a 2014 NASA panel discussion, Hand predicted that extraterrestrial life would be found within 20 years.〔connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/07/15/nasa-humans-will-prove-we-are-not-alone-in-the-universe-within-20-years/〕〔http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/we-are-not-alone-in-universe-nasa-habitable-planets_n_5588455.html〕 == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Hand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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