American Chemical Society AMA: I am Steve Maguire, a chemist working at SNOLAB in Sudbury, ON, hunting for neutrinos. I’m also avid about science outreach. Ask me anything about hunting for neutrinos or communicating science.

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Hi Reddit! I am Steve Maguire, the 2013 winner of the Flame Challenge (video category; http://ift.tt/1RIwh5Q ), and creator of the webseries “Science Isn't Scary” (https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceIsnotScary). I have a broad background in science outreach, participating with “Let's Talk Science” (http://ift.tt/1pjyhG0) as the chemistry magic show coordinator for the Ottawa area, as well as other events sponsored by the University of Ottawa. I specialize in speaking to school groups and educators about making science more relevant.

Academically, I completed an M.Sc. at the University of Ottawa for work on the photogeneration of silver nanoparticles. I also did some work towards a Ph.D. into biofuel chemistry.

Currently, I’m a research associate at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, (https://www.snolab.ca/) where I assist with the chemistry aspects of a large neutrino detection experiment (SNO+). Work on neutrinos at SNOLAB led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics (http://ift.tt/1QW5tQU). Have a look at how we search for neutrinos at SNOLAB as part of my YouTube series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iyUim_3pdY.

Ask me anything about neutrinos and what it’s like to be a chemist hunting for them, or anything about science outreach.

I’ll be back at 11:00 AM EDT to answer your questions.

">American Chemical Society AMA: I am Steve Maguire, a chemist working at SNOLAB in Sudbury, ON, hunting for neutrinos. I’m also avid about science outreach. Ask me anything about hunting for neutrinos or communicating science.