Contact Information

P.O. Box 887
39 Fernhill Road
Ross, CA     94957
Phone: (415) 577-1126

Contact: Tucker Hiatt
Email: tucker@wonderfest.org

Website: http://www.wonderfest.org

Wonderfest

Wonderfest Company Profile

Wonderfest is a non-profit educational project created and directed by Tucker Hiatt. (tucker@wonderfest.org). Wonderfest headquarters are located in Marin County, at P.O. Box 887, 39 Fernhill Road, Ross, CA 94957. Financial administration and management support are provided by The Branson School, a 501(C)3 institution. Wonderfest’s broad goals are best described by its mission statement: Through public discourse about provocative scientific questions, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning. Wonderfest achieves these ends by presenting series of scientific events to the general public. At most of these events, pairs of articulate and accomplished researchers discuss and debate compelling questions at the edge of scientific understanding.

News from Wonderfest:

Astronomer Geoff Marcy, Earth’s Premier Planet Hunter, Wins Carl Sagan Prize


STANFORD and BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 22, 2009 — Geoff Marcy, Earth’s foremost discoverer of planets outside our solar system, has won the 2009 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. The award recognizes Marcy’…