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Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 138-142

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From page 138...
... Dr. Thornton served on the NRC ­Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, the Committee for Technological Literacy, and the Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration, and served as co-chair of the Stanford ­University/ Planetary Society Workshop on Examining the Vision: Balancing Science and Exploration.
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From page 139...
... Dr. Cattell has been a member of various advisory committees, including the NRC Committee on Solar Terrestrial Research, the NRC Plasma Sciences Committee, the NASA Sun-Earth-Connection Advisory Subcommittee, and the Sun-Solar System Connections SSSC Roadmap Committee.
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From page 140...
... He is also the codirector of the Minority Institute Astrobiology Collaborative, the principal investigator on the NASA Astrobiology Institute Minority Institution Research Support (MIRS) program, a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Astrovirology focus group, and part of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center education and public outreach team for the Mars Science Laboratory.
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From page 141...
... She presented the results of her research at the 2005 and 2006 AAS meetings and at various Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium undergraduate research conferences. Her most recent research focused on laboratory astrophysics and involved studying the x-rays of plasma, culminating in a senior thesis entitled "Modeling UV and X-ray Spectra from the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment." CATHERINE A
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... Mr. Groswald is a first-year graduate student pursuing his master's degree in international science and technology policy at the George Washington University (GW)
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