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Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographical Information
Pages 42-46

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... His research interests include studying massive compact halo objects, comets, and asteroids; the outer solar system; cosmic dark matter; large astronomical surveys; astronomical data mining; and virtual observatory technologies.
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... From 1984 to 2005, Dr. Bennett was an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he won the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and twice won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.
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... She served on NSF's External Review Committee for the CTIO Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System, the Program Review Panel for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and the Waterman Prize Committee; HST's Telescope Allocation Committee and Space Telescope Users Committee (member and chair) ; Spitzer Space Telescope's Allocation Committee and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee (member and chair)
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... She currently serves on the NRC's Space Studies Board. Her previous service includes as co-vice chair of the Committee on Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, as a member on the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, as a vice chair on the Panel on Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Astronomy from Space, and as a member on the Steering Committee for the Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics and the U.S.
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... in atmospheric science in 2008. From there she went on to Texas Tech University where she studied lightning trends in tornadic and non-tornadic supercell thunderstorms and worked as a teaching and research assistant.
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  • previous nrc
  • dark matter
  • service includes
  • allocation committee

  • space telescope
  • space astronomy
  • international astronomical
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  • dark energy

  • telescope allocation
  • membership includes
  • astronomical union
  • space engineering
  • spitzer space

  • nrc membership
  • national optical
  • astrophysics survey
  • international project
  • american astronomical

  • infrared astronomy
  • theoretical astrophysics
  • optical astronomy
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  • astronomical society

  • engineering board
  • anisotropy probe
  • microwave anisotropy
  • survey committee
  • users committee


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