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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 70-74

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From page 70...
... Goddard Award from NASA, the Carl Sagan Award from the American Astronautical Society, and a National Endowment for the Arts/Federal Design Achievement award for the Mars Pathfinder mission. Asteroid 7225 has also been named after him.
From page 71...
... on the Mars Polar Lander, and co-investigator on the NEARShoemaker mission. Currently he is principal investigator for the Gamma-ray Spectrometer on the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission, co-investigator on the Phoenix Mars Lander mission responsible for the TEGA instrument, coinvestigator on the MESSENGER mission as the geochemistry lead, and co-investigator on the Cassini mission.
From page 72...
... Jackson taught at Howard University and worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He has been a Guggenheim fellow, received a Humboldt Senior Research Award, received the AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society as well as a fellow of the AAAS.
From page 73...
... He is the Applied Physics Laboratory study scientist for the Solar Probe; a member of the Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer Team, Cassini Orbiter spacecraft; and a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission to Pluto. He has worked on the physics of the magnetospheres of the outer planets, the outer heliosphere (including solar wind dynamics and properties of the very-low-frequency radiation)
From page 74...
... She was a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search for a space science research project conducted at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., and in 2004 she was one of 16 international students selected by the Planetary Society for a 10-day assignment inside Mars Exploration Rover mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After completing her undergraduate education, Ms.


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