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Maggie Coblentz is a researcher and multimedia artist from Canada. She draws inspiration from science fiction, outer space, and more-than-human worlds. At the core of her work is an exploration of how humans relate to the cosmos. She has flown on parabolic research flights, led a fermentation study aboard the ISS, and led several field expeditions where she used cooking to connect people and place.
Maggie works in the Science division at National Geographic. Previously, at MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative, she researched space food and culture and established an Arctic field school in Svalbard. She is the founder of Fieldscape, an interdisciplinary field program that brings together scientists, engineers, artists, and designers to improve accessibility to remote research environments.
Maggie received a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been featured in publications such as WIRED, The Economist, Scientific American, BBC, NPR, CNN, and Popular Science.