Exploring Life and Intelligence: The Carl Sagan Center for Research’s Multidisciplinary SETI and Astrobiology Initiative

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Led by the Carl Sagan Center at SETI, this broad, multi-disciplinary program studies life in the universe and the search for intelligent signals, runs diverse research and education projects, follows open, scientifically rigorous rules for searching and reporting discoveries, and shares findings with the public and the international community.

Protocols for an ETI Signal Detection
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Protocols for an ETI Signal Detection

Led by the Carl Sagan Center for Research, a multidisciplinary program spans astrobiology, astronomy and astrophysics, data science, exoplanets, heliophysics, planetary exploration, and SETI, conducts diverse projects such as SETI at the Allen Telescope Array, COSMIC at the VLA, LaserSETI, FDL for applied AI/ML, InVADER hydrothermal vent studies, and CAMS all-sky meteor detection, while offering education programs like Community College Internships, Summer Internships, NASA’s NCCN, Astronomy Activation Ambassadors, Reach for the Stars for Girl Scouts, UCAN and ARISE, outlines SETI concepts (Drake Equation, Project Ozma and Phoenix, Arecibo and the Arecibo Message, signals for ETI, Fermi paradox, signal/image processing) and governance through the Declaration of Principles Concerning the Conduct of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with open reporting, Rio Scale usage, and post-detection reporting to the public, the scientific community, and the United Nations, coordinated post-detection analysis by the International Academy of Astronautics, and a mission to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence and share knowledge via news, events, lectures, podcasts and outreach including the SETI Artists-in-Residence program, under a leadership-driven governance structure inviting collaboration from diverse partners.