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Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 164-168
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He has received the David Bates Medal of the European Geosciences Union for exceptional contributions to planetary and solar system sciences, the NASA award for exceptional scientific contributions to the Voyager missions to the giant planets, the NASA Group Achievement Awards for outstanding scientific contributions with the Voyager Ultraviolet S pectrometer, for exceptional technical innovations in surface operations of MSL Prime Mission, for outstanding scientific contributions with the Galileo Probe mass spectrometer, and for outstanding contributions to the Galileo Project at Jupiter.
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He has served on several National Academies' boards and committees including the Space Studies Board, the Committee to Review the NASA Astrobiology Institute, and the Committee for the Review of NASA Science Mission Directorate Science Plan, and he chaired the Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample-Return Missions. OLIVIER GUYON is an associate astronomer and associate professor of optical sciences at The University of Arizona in the Department of Astronomy and the Steward Observatory.
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There, she is also director of the Astrobiology Program and principal investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory. Her research interests include theoretical modeling of terrestrial planetary environments to understand their habitability, the generation and detectability of planetary biosignatures and their false positives, and solar system planetary observations.
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To study these themes and develop a holistic understanding of functional microbial ecosystems, she employs a combination of fieldwork in several terrestrial hydrothermal systems and modern deep-sea mid-ocean ridge environments with extensive laboratory analytical and experimental techniques. Previously, Dr.
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She is particularly engaged in the design and construction of innovative advanced, near-infrared and optical astronomical instrumentation, and she has led instrument programs at the Lick and Keck Observatories. She is project scientist for the NearInfrared Integral Field Spectrograph and Imager for AO corrected images (IRIS)
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