The forgotten discoveries of lesser-known scientists | Maya Todua | TEDxTbilisi
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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism
What is the connection between the atmosphere and earthquakes? Atmospheric physicist Maya Todua is working to revive promising research on this question conducted in Soviet-era Georgia that could help one day to predict earthquakes and save many lives. Maya Todua has been passionate about astronomy and the space-earth connection since she was a child growing up in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Today she is an astronomer specializing in atmospheric physics and solar-terrestrial coupling. She heads Georgia's Abastubani Astrophysical Observatory, the former Soviet Union's first mountain observatory, where scientists have been working on observational and theoretical solar physics as well as numerical fluid dynamics since 1932. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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