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Appendix F: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 75-78

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... Prior positions have included deputy NASA chief scientist, senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and research scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests were in radio astronomy and space physics.
From page 76...
... KIRSTEN SIEBACH is an assistant professor in the Rice University Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, and a member of the Science and Operations Team for the Mars Science Laboratory. Prior to joining Rice University, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Stony Brook University studying the geo­ chemistry of martian sediments.
From page 77...
... She spent the last two summers interning at NASA's Ames Research Center with the Space Life Sciences Training Program, where she studied how terrestrial bacteria survive in Mars-like environments, what genetic changes occur in bacteria flown in space, and how high-altitude balloons can be used for astrobiological and atmospheric studies.
From page 78...
... She is also passionate ­ about combating socioeconomic inequality in her field.


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