Chenoa Tremblay

Chenoa is a researcher at SETI Institute and uses spectroscopy, the interactions of light and matter, to look for molecules in the gas layers around stars which underpin a search for signs of life beyond our own here on Earth. With this work she faces daily technical challenges which are solved through a combination of computer programming, curiosity, and sometimes thinking “outside the box”. Her work includes leading international collaborations of diverse groups of researchers, and supervising and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students.  With the SETI Institute she works on one of the largest all-sky SETI searches using the Jansky Very Large Array. 

Chenoa routinely volunteers her time to her community and works with younger students to build their curiosity in the world. She believes that it is through curiosity, motivation, and leadership that we can make the world a better place and discover wonderful new things about our Universe. 

Popular Media:

• 2021: University of New South Wales - Media release - “Scientists shed more light on molecules linked to life on other planets” (https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/scientists-shed-more-light-molecules-linked-life-other-planets) 
• 2021: Space Australia - Wrote an article about my work on “Cradle of Life at Low Frequencies”. (https://spaceaustralia.com/feature/search-cradle-life-low-radio-frequencies)
• 2020: Space Australia - Wrote an article about the debate regarding the Phosphine on Venus discovery. (https://spaceaustralia.com/index.php/feature/there-really-phosphine-venus)
• 2020: Cosmos Magazine - Independent comment on lab experiments to find glycine in pre-stellar cores. (https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/dark-chemistry-in-a-lab-as-cold-as-space/)
• 2020: Pawsey Supercomputer Centre - New computer media release - Selected science case for why this is important presented to the media. 
• (https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/dr-chenoa-tremblay-postdoctoral-fellow-in-dark-magnetism-at-csiro/)
• (https://pawsey.org.au/case_studies/to-boldly-go-where-no-supercomputer-has-gone-before/)
• 2020: Curtin University Media - “The Future Extraterrestrial Intelligence” Podcast (curtin.edu/pww6nc)
• 2020: Media Release - Largest SETI survey to date - Interviews with various news sites including Reuters, Washington Post, & smaller venues. (https://www.icrar.org/looking-for-ET/)
• 2020: ScienceDirect - Independent comment on first potential protein discovery in a meteor. (https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-claim-to-have-found-the-first-known-extraterrestrial-protein-in-a-meteorite)
• 2019: Podcast Interview - Astrophiz! Podcast -- Discussion about my career, my science pathway, my science and outreach. (https://astrophiz.com/2019/09/12/astrophiz-91-dr-chenoa-tremblay-molecules-dark-magnetism/)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chenoa-Tremblay

• Galactic Australian SKA Pathfinder All-Sky Survey in Hydroxyl 
• Low-Frequency Technosignature searches with the Murchison Widefield Array and Australian SKA Pathfinder
• All-Sky SETI search with COSMIC and the JVLA