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Biographical Sketches of
Task Group Members
KENNETH NEALSON (Chairman) is the Shaw Distinguished
Professor of Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an
adjunct professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
and associate director of the Center for Great Lakes Studies in Milwaukee,
a center of excellence of the University of Wisconsin system. Before
moving to Wisconsin in 1985, he was a professor of oceanography at the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he served for 12 years. During
that time, he received a Guggenheim fellowship and spent 1 year on
sabbatical leave in the marine chemistry department at the University of
Washington in Seattle. His area of research is the biogeochemical cycling
of metals in aquatic environments. He has served on two previous Space
Studies Board (SSB) committees, chaired by L. Margulis and H.P. Klein.
He served for 3 years as a panel member for the Exobiology Program and
has been involved for over 10 years with a summer NASA research
training program funded by the Biospherics Program at NASA. He has
been a distinguished lecturer at 10 different U.S. universities and has been
named as a distinguished lecturer of the Australian Microbiology Society
for 1992. He received a B.S. in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in microbiology,
both from the University of Chicago, and did postdoctoral work in
biochemistry at Harvard University.
JOHN BAROSS is an associate professor of oceanography at the
University of Washington, Seattle, where he has been since 1985. Baross
has been a member of the American Society for Microbiology committees
on microbial ecology and numerical taxonomy, a member of the
Theoretical, Experimental and Analytical Working Group, RIDGE (Ridge
Inter-disciplinary Global Experiments), and a Scientific Advisory Board
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member (alternate) for the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic
Monument. Baross is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Panel
for the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. His research
interests include the ecology and physiology of hyperthermophiles from
marine and terrestrial volcanic environments, the possible relationship
between submarine hydrothermal vents and the origins of life, and
estuarine microbial ecology. Baross received a B.S. in microbiology and
chemistry from California State University at San Francisco in 1964 and a
Ph.D. in marine microbiology from the University of Washington in 1973.
MICHAEL CARR is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
in Menlo Park, California, where he as been since 1962. During the last 20
years, Carr has focused on studying Mars, particularly its volcanic and
climatic history. He was a member of the Mariner-9 imaging team and
leader of the Viking Orbiter imaging team. He is currently a member of
the Galileo imaging team and is an interdisciplinary scientist on Mars
Observer and a co-investigator on the Russian Mars-94 mission. He chairs
the Mars Science Working Group that advises NASA on the strategy for
future robotic exploration of Mars. Carr received a B.Sc. in geology from
the University of London in 1956 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in
1960.
ROBERT PEPIN is a professor of physics at the University of
Minnesota, where he has been since 1965, except for a 3-year absence
from 1974 to 1977 as director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (then
the Lunar Science Institute) in Houston, Texas. Pepin was a member of the
SSB's Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) from
1983 to 1988, served as its chairman and as a member of the SSB from
1985 to 1988, and was a 1987-1988 member of the SSB ad hoc Committee
on Cooperative Exploration of Mars. He has been a member of several
committees and boards that advise NASA and the Universities Space
Research Association, was mission control science advisor for lunar
surface operations during Apollo missions 14-17 in 1970-1972, and
currently sits on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Galileo Review Board. He
is currently a principal investigator in NASA's Planetary Materials and
Geochemistry Research Program. He was awarded the NASA Medal for
Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1971. Pepin received a B.A. in
physics from Harvard University in 1956 and a Ph.D. in physics from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1964.
THOMAS SCHMIDT is an assistant professor of microbiology at
Miami University, a position he accepted in 1991 after serving as a
postdoctoral fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Center for
Great Lakes Studies, and Indiana University. Schmidt's research focuses
on the development and application of molecular biological approaches to
the study of naturally occurring microbial populations, including
unculturable microorganisms. He has served as an outside reviewer for
NASA's Exobiology Program and the Department of Energy's Subsurface
Science Program. Schmidt received a B.S. in biology from the University
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of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. (1985) in environmental biology and
microbiology from Ohio State University.
JODI SHANN is an assistant professor of biology at the
University of Cincinnati, where she has been since 1988. She currently
serves on environmental advisory and education committees at the local,
national, and international level. She received a B.S. in marine science
from Stockton State College in 1976, an M.S. in plant and soil science
from the University of Rhode Island in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Botany from
North Carolina State University in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, Shann held a
Department of Energy postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Georgia and the Savannah River Site.
J. ROBIE VESTAL is a professor of biological sciences and a
professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati. His
research interests include how microbial communities function in nature.
He has studied microbial communities in Arctic lakes and in soils
contaminated with hazardous waste, cryptoendolithic (hidden within rock)
communities in Antarctica, mangrove-degrading communities in the
Bahamas, and most recently, decomposer communities in municipal solid
waste compost. He has also investigated microbial survival under
simulated martian conditions. He earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at North
Carolina State University and an M.S. at Miami University. His
postdoctoral research at Syracuse University involved the biochemistry of
Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Vestal has served on many local and national
committees and was recently chair of the Divisional Advisory Committee
of the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs.
DAVID C. WHITE has been a University of Tennessee/Oak
Ridge National Laboratory distinguished scientist and professor of
microbiology and ecology since 1986. He is currently director of the
Center for Environmental Biotechnology, where his research into
assessment of the microbial ecology of biofilms and subsurface sediments
has been used in monitoring microbial biofilms in contained life support
systems and in protection of potable water systems for space habitability.
He has served on NASA and SSB committees for planetary biology and
chemical evolution, global habitability, and major directions in space
science and has won awards from the Environmental Protection Agency
and Department of Energy for scientific achievement in work on
subsurface science and bioremediation. He received an A.B. from
Dartmouth College in 1951, an M.D. from Tufts Medical School in 1955,
and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Rockefeller University in 1962.
RICHARD S. YOUNG is a consultant who has worked for more
than 30 years in the area of space life sciences (primarily exobiology and
planetary protection and controlled ecological life support systems). He is
a former manager of NASA's Exobiology Program and was NASA's
planetary protection officer in the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently
chairman of the Exobiology Discipline Working Group and is a member
of several committees in the areas of exobiology, controlled ecological life
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support systems, and planetary protection. He has been very active in the
Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Life Sciences for many years,
and he holds a research professorship at the Florida Institute of
Technology. He has an A.B. degree in biology from Gettysburg College,
and honorary D.Sc. from Gettysburg College, and a Ph.D. from Florida
State University.
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