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Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 158-163

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... He currently leads the MEarth project, which has found several of the terrestrial exoplanets whose atmospheres are amenable to study with upcoming observatories, and he is a co-investigator on the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
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From page 159...
... Professor Crepp was awarded a NASA Early Career Fellowship in 2013 for his work in studying brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets through direct imaging. Additionally, he won the NSF CAREER Award in 2017 for his work to develop a new type of astronomical spectrograph that uses adaptive optics.
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From page 160...
... authored more than 300 scientific publications. He has received multiple awards, including the ESO Exceptional Performance Award, the NASA Group Achievement Award, and the JPL Team Award for outstanding contributions to the Exoplanet Coronagraph Technology Group.
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... Weinberger served as a NICMOS Postdoctoral Research Astronomer and Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. She has received multiple awards and fellowships, including the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy from the American Association of University Women and the AAS, as well as the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of India.
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From page 162...
... Since joining the ASEB and SSB Dr. Moloney has overseen the production of more than 60 reports, including five decadal surveys, in astronomy and astrophysics, Earth science and applications from space, planetary science, microgravity sciences, and solar and space physics.
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... She started her career as a Presidential Management Intern under Ronald Reagan. Her numerous awards include the Claire Booth Luce Fellowship in Science and Engineering, the NASA Outstanding Performance Award, and multiple Presidential Rank Awards, one of the highest awards bestowed by the President of the United States to senior executives.
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