2023 Drake Awards

The Drake Awards is the SETI Institute's annual celebration of SETI science and the field's pioneers. Join us in person in Menlo Park, CA, or virtually to honor this year's recipient Dr. John Rummel, together with a celebration of undergraduate recipients of the SETI Forward Award and the Carl Sagan Center Director's Award.

Dr. Moiya McTier, Author and Astrophysicist, will host this year's Drake Awards.

Prior to his recent focus on business with Friday Harbor Partners, John Rummel was a visiting scholar at McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law (Montréal) and a Senior Scientist with the SETI Institute. Earlier, he was the founding Director of the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy and retired as Professor of Biology at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC). This year he stepped down as the representative of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) to the International Science Council’s Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) where he was also the former (and founding) Chair of COSPAR’s Panel on Planetary Protection, and led the development of COSPAR’s unified policy and its current approach to addressing planetary protection concerns. More recently, Rummel represented COSPAR on The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group, which developed approaches to establishing a legal regime that would promote the orderly and productive use of in-space resources.

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