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Appendix E: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 75-80

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... Dr. Tananbaum has earned the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the NASA Public Service Award, and the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership, as well as the Bruno Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
From page 76...
... He is the author of numerous publications, including studies of observations conducted with the Freja satellite and other missions characterizing electric, magnetic, and plasma phenomena in the space environment. Before joining Aerospace, he worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Swedish Institute for Space Physics, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics on related research.
From page 77...
... Numerous awards have been bestowed upon Dr. Gehrels, including the COSPAR Massey Award in 2012, SPIE Goddard Award 2009, NAS Draper Medal in 2009, AAS Bruno Rossi Prize in 2007, Popular Science Magazine's Best of What's New Award for Swift satellite research in 2006, and NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2005.
From page 78...
... His experience with spacecraft science experiments includes service as a member of the Voyager imaging team at Neptune; a Galileo interdisciplinary scientist associated with the Solid State ­maging I team; a Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem team member; a Mars Observer/Mars Global Surveyor participating scientist for the Mars Orbital Camera; a member of the Clementine advisory committee and science team; a participating scientist on Mars Odyssey THEMIS; a PI of High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) , Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; a co-investigator on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)
From page 79...
... He is the author of Lightning Rod, A History of the Air Force Chief Scientist, and editor of several books, including a history of the CORONA reconnaissance satellite program. He has held Guggenheim and Verville fellowships at the National Air and Space Museum, and was an associate editor of the German spaceflight magazine Raumfahrt Concrete, in addition to writing for such publications as Novosti Kosmonavtiki (Russia)
From page 80...
... Ms. Wilks brings experience working in the National Academies conference management office as well as other administrative positions in the D.C.


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