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Appendix C: Committee, Panel, and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 115-125

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... Dr. A'Hearn is a member of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences.
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... He was responsible for the overall integrity of science returns from the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission and is the lead for science data analysis and archiving, science planning, and conflict resolu tion among NEAR science requirements.
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... Dr. Abell was a telemetry officer for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft Near-Infrared Spectrometer team and is a member of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph science team for the Hayabusa spacecraft operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
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... Culp has become one of the leading authorities on space debris, satellite fragmentation modeling, hazard to resident space objects, and the space environment. He previously served on the NRC's Committee on International Space Station Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management.
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... MICHAEL J.S. BELTON is currently the president of his own research company, Belton Space Exploration Initiatives, LLC, and an emeritus astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)
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... Prior to coming to Stanford University, she was a project leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a technical staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, where she led programs to characterize meteoroids and meteoroid plasma using high-power radars. She also was the lead space physicist for spacecraft monitoring and unplanned space surveillance events and was a project leader for characterizing and modeling ionospheric plasma instabilities.
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... DAVID Y KUSNIERKIEWICZ is the chief engineer of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he has worked for 26 years.
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... He recently developed several patents, including patents for an angular sensing system, a method for enhancing the digestion reaction rates of chemi cal systems; and a system for mechanically stabilizing a bed of particulate media. He is the chair emeritus of the AIAA Space Colonization Technical Committee, a member of the board of trustees for the University Space Research Association, a member of the Science Council for Research's Institute for Advanced Computer Science, and a charter member of the AIAA Space Exploration Program Committee.
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... Dr. Thornton has previously 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.
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... Her most recent research focused on labo ratory 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." She has presented results of her research at the 2005 and 2006 AAS meetings and at various Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium undergraduate research conferences. She received a B.A.
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... Before he joined SSB, most of his vocational life was spent in the health professionas a pharmacy technologist at Doctor's Hospital in Lanham, Maryland, and as an interim center administrator at the Concentra Medical Center in Jessup, Maryland. During that time, he participated in a number of Quality Circle Initiatives that were designed to improve relations between management and staff.
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