Tori Hoehler
Director of the center-for-life-detection at NASA Ames Research Center; Deputy Principal Investigator of NASA’s Investigating Ocean Worlds (InvOW) project (2026–2031). Frames InvOW as a bridge between planetary science and Earth oceanography:
“Bringing together planetary scientists and Earth oceanographers to understand alien oceans the way we understand our own — as complex systems where geology, physics, chemistry, and possibly biology, work together in concert.” — Tori Hoehler (src-whoi-invow-ocean-worlds-2026-05)