Science Spotlights: Building a Planet from the Inside Out

Science Spotlights: Building a Planet from the Inside Out
2026-06-13 18:00 - 18:30 UTC | Harvard Museum of Natural History
In-Person Presentation

Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks.

2:00–2:30 pm – Building a Planet from the Inside Out

Speaker: Jack Sheehan – Graduate Student in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Dept. – Fischer Group

You may think you know the Earth well—after all, you’ve spent your whole life on it! However, you’ve only experienced a tiny fraction of our planet. Nearly 99% of the Earth lies hidden deep beneath our feet, in the mantle and core. This unseen interior drives everything from plate tectonics to the Northern Lights. But how can we study a place we can never see? Join Harvard scientist Jack Sheehan to discover how researchers recreate the extreme conditions of Earth’s interior in the lab to uncover how our planet formed and continues to evolve.

Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Regular museum admission rates apply.

Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
