Andrew Cheng is the chief scientist for the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He now serves as the department’s external liaison for space science and will provide independent science advice and strategic vision to lab and department leadership. Dr. Cheng brings considerable experience to the position, having been an interdisciplinary […]
Paul Wennberg is the R. Stanton Avery professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental science and engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is the principal investigator of the Mars Atmospheric Trace Molecule Occultation Spectrometer. His laboratory at Caltech builds and fields remote-sensing and in-situ instrumentation for terrestrial science applications. He has participated in […]
Marc Allen is the director for strategic and international planning within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. His principal responsibilities include international cooperation, strategic-planning coordination, and oversight of the Directorate’s relationship with the National Research Council. He coordinates Directorate plans and policies and represents them to key external groups, including the research community and foreign partners. Throughout […]
William Gibson has extensive experience in the management of space-science missions, payloads, instruments, and spacecraft avionic systems. He served as the project manager for the MIDEX imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration, science payload manager for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, and project manager for the instrument suite science team on the Magnetospheric […]
Alfred McEwen is a professor in the Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, and director of the Planetary Image Research Lab (PIRL). His research interests include volcanology, cratering, slope processes, and remote sensing of planetary surfaces. This presentation will illustrate the techniques critical to managing resources of science projects led by principal investigators (PI). […]
Bruce Banerdt is a planetary geophysicist, working in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1977. He has participated in numerous planetary flight-instrument teams, including the Mars orbiter laser altimeter on Mars Global Surveyor, the synthetic aperture radar on the Magellan mission to Venus, the seismometer on the NetLander mission […]
Ellen Stofan is vice president of Proxemy Research and honorary professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. She conducts research on the geology of Venus, Mars, Titan, and Earth. While at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1991–2000), she was chief scientist of NASA’s New Millennium Program, the deputy project scientist on the Magellan […]
Bruce Cantor is a senior staff scientist at Malin Space Science Systems, which he joined in 2000. He is principal investigator of the Mars Atmospheric Global Imaging Experiment on the joint NASA–European Space Agency 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission, a co-investigator on the Mars color imager experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission, […]
Noel Hinners will rhapsodize on the major challenges he had as a center director in enabling the science and engineering implementation of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). The internal Goddard Space Flight Center environment for COBE was unusual in that it was managed by the Engineering Directorate to provide essential hands-on training to the engineers. […]
