Ad Hoc Study Committees:
Activities and Membership
When a sponsor requests that the Space Studies Board (SSB) conduct a study, an ad hoc committee is established for that purpose. The committee terminates when the study is completed. These study committees are subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Section 15, because they provide advice and recommendations to the federal government. The SSB and/or one of its standing committees provide oversight for ad hoc study committee activities. Eight ad hoc study committees were active during 2011; their activities and membership are summarized below.
In addition, one ad hoc committee released a report in 2010 and was formally disbanded in 2011—the report of the ad hoc Committee on the Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions, Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Collaboration on Space and Earth Science Missions, was summarized in the 2010 annual report and final books were printed in 2011. Also in 2011, work began on forming the Committee on the Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program, a study sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey.
ASSESSING REQUIREMENTS FOR SUSTAINED OCEAN COLOR
RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS
The Ocean Studies Board (OSB) formed the ad hoc Committee on Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations, in collaboration with the SSB, to identify the ocean color data needs for a broad range of end users, develop a consensus for the requirements, and outline options to meet these needs on a sustained basis. The committee held six meetings in 2010, and members of the SSB Committee on Earth Studies and SSB staff attended the June 28-30 meeting.
The report of the committee, Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations, was released on July 7, 2011. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.
Membership
James A. Yoder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (chair)
David Antoine, Marine Optics and Remote Sensing Lab, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Cedex, France
Carlos E. Del Castillo,* Johns Hopkins University
Robert H. Evans, Jr., University of Miami
Curtis Mobley, Sequoia Scientific, Inc.
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*Resigned from the committee to take a position with NASA.
Jorge L. Sarmiento, Princeton University
Shubha Sathyendranath, Dalhousie University, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carl F. Schueler, Orbital Sciences Corporation
David A. Siegel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cara Wilson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Staff
Claudia Mengelt, Senior Program Officer, OSB (study director)
Arthur A. Charo, Senior Program Officer, SSB
Heather Chiarello, Senior Program Assistant, OSB
Jeremy Justice, Senior Program Assistant, OSB
Emily Oliver, Program Assistant, OSB
ASSESSMENT OF NASA’S EARTH SCIENCE PROGRAM
The ad hoc Committee on the Assessment of NASA’s Earth Science Program was formed to review the alignment of the NASA Earth Science Division’s program with previous NRC advice, primarily the 2007 NRC decadal survey report, Earth Science and Applications from Space. In carrying out this study, the committee was directed to neither revisit or alter the scientific priorities or mission recommendations provided in the decadal survey and related NRC reports; however, the committee may provide guidance about implementing the recommended mission portfolio in preparation for the next decadal survey.
The committee began work in March 2011 and held meetings on April 27-29 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C.; on July 6-8 in Seattle, Washington; and on September 21-23 at the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The committee continued its discussion, deliberation, and report development.
The committee’s report entered external peer review in late December 2011; release of an NRC-approved prepublication version of the committee’s report is anticipated in Spring 2012.
Membership
Dennis L. Hartmann, University of Washington (chair)
Mark R. Abbott, Oregon State University
Richard A. Anthes, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems
Stacey Boland, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park
Anny Cazenave, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Ruth S. DeFries, Columbia University
Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bradford H. Hager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hung-Lung Allen Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anthony C. Janetos, University of Maryland, College Park
Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington
Jennifer A. Logan, Harvard University
Molly K. Macauley, Resources for the Future
Anne W. Nolin, Oregon State University
Joyce E. Penner, University of Michigan
Michael J. Prather, University of California, Irvine
David S. Schimel, National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc.
William F. Townsend, Independent Consultant
Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Colorado State University
Staff
Arthur A. Charo, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)
Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB
Linda M. Walker, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
Danielle Piskorz, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern
DECADAL STRATEGY FOR SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS (HELIOPHYSICS)
The Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) was formed to conduct a broadly based assessment decadal survey of the scientific priorities of the U.S. solar and space physics research enterprise for the period 2013-2022. The survey is composed of a steering committee supported by three discipline-oriented study panels. In addition, five “national capabilities working groups,” made up of community members who are willing to serve as unpaid consultants, assist the steering committee and panels in gathering information and providing context to the survey’s work in the following focus areas: Theory and Modeling and Data Exploitation; Explorers, Suborbital, and Other Platforms; Innovations: Technology, Instruments, Data Systems; Research to Operations/ Operations to Research (R2O/O2R); and Workforce and Education. In addition, the steering committee created several splinter study groups to address particular subjects of interest.
The NRC contracted with the Aerospace Corporation to perform cost and technical analysis of selected survey-developed concepts. Assisted by representatives of the panels and the steering committee, the Aerospace Corporation completed the first phase of this analysis during the first quarter.
During 2011, the survey steering committee held the following meetings: February 1-3, Irvine, California; April 12-14, Washington, D.C.; June 14-16, Boulder, Colorado; August 29-31, Irvine, California; and November 16-18, Irvine California. At the June meeting of the steering committee, the Aerospace Corporation presented initial cost and technical analysis of selected survey-developed concepts and presented their final results at the August meeting.
The three discipline-oriented study panels held the following meetings in 2011:
• Panel on Atmosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Interaction (AIM): January 12-14, Washington, D.C.; June 1-3, Woods Hole, Massachusetts;
• Panel on Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SH): January 10-12, Washington, D.C.; May 25-27, Boulder, Colorado;
• Panel on Solar-Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions (SWM): January 18-20, Santa Fe, New Mexico; June 20-21, Washington, D.C.
Several working groups also held meetings in 2011, and outreach events also occurred in connection with several NSF-sponsored summer schools.
The R2O/O2R working group was present at a survey-sponsored town hall meeting on February 7-8, where invited speakers, working group members, and the public were encouraged to express their view of topics pertaining to space weather research-to-operations and the inverse. A solicitation to the community for mission concepts and related activities that might be undertaken in the coming decade drew 288 responses. Panels reviewed these concepts and white papers at their first and second meetings and made recommendations to the steering committee regarding a small number of concepts that might go forward in an independent cost and technical evaluation.
In response to a request from NASA, the survey also broadened its workplan to include explicit consideration of “decision rules” relevant to the Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission, which is currently planned for a 2018 launch. On August 11, 2011, the survey’s study group on SPP met in Washington, D.C., and received briefings from agency officials; SPP project and program scientists, many of whom are working at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; and all of the SPP instrument principal investigators.
As the third quarter ended, the three study panels were finalizing their submissions to the steering committee, as were the working groups and study groups. Preparations were also underway for the steering committee’s final meeting in November.
During the fourth quarter, following the steering committee’s November meeting, drafts of all sections of the report were complete and revisions and editing were underway to prepare the report for external review. Although the target date for approval of a prepublication report was March 31, 2012, a short delay to accommodate changes in the study’s work plan may be required.
Steering Committee Membership
Daniel N. Baker, University of Colorado, Boulder (chair)
Thomas H. Zurbuchen, University of Michigan (vice chair)
Brian J. Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Steven J. Battel, Battel Engineering
James F. Drake, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park
Lennard A. Fisk, University of Michigan
Marvin A. Geller, Stony Brook University
Sarah Gibson, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael A. Hesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
J. Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University
Mary K. Hudson, Dartmouth College
David L. Hysell, Cornell University
Thomas Immel, University of California, Berkeley
Justin Kasper, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Judith L. Lean, Naval Research Laboratory
Ramon E. Lopez, University of Texas, Arlington
Howard J. Singer, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Harlan E. Spence, University of New Hampshire
Edward C. Stone, California Institute of Technology
Staff
Arthur A. Charo, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)
Maureen Mellody, Program Officer, ASEB
Abigail Sheffer, Associate Program Officer, SSB
Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB
Linda Walker, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
Terri Baker, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
Panel on Atmosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Interactions Membership
Jeffrey M. Forbes, University of Colorado, Boulder (chair)
James H. Clemmons, The Aerospace Corporation (vice chair)
Odile de la Beaujardiere, Air Force Research Laboratory
John V. Evans, COMSAT Corporation (retired)
Roderick A. Heelis, University of Texas, Dallas
Thomas Immel, University of California, Berkeley
Janet U. Kozyra, University of Michigan
William Lotko, Dartmouth College
Gang Lu, High Altitude Observatory
Kristina A. Lynch, Dartmouth College
Jens Oberheide, Clemson University
Larry J. Paxton, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Robert F. Pfaff, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Joshua Semeter, Boston University
Jeffrey P. Thayer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Panel on Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions Membership
Michelle F. Thomsen, Los Alamos National Laboratory (chair)
Michael Wiltberger, National Center for Atmospheric Research (vice chair)
Joseph Borovsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Joseph F. Fennell, The Aerospace Corporation
Jerry Goldstein, Southwest Research Institute
Janet C. Green, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Donald A. Gurnett, University of Iowa
Lynn M. Kistler, University of New Hampshire
Michael W. Liemohn, University of Michigan
Robyn Millan, Dartmouth College
Donald G. Mitchell, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Tai D. Phan, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Shay, University of Delaware
Harlan E. Spence, University of New Hampshire
Richard M. Thorne, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel on Solar and Heliospheric Physics Membership
Richard A. Mewaldt, California Institute of Technology (chair)
Spiro K. Antiochos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (vice chair)
Timothy S. Bastian, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Joe Giacalone, University of Arizona
George Gloeckler, University of Maryland, College Park
John W. Harvey, National Solar Observatory
Russell A. Howard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Justin Kasper, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Robert P. Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Glenn M. Mason, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Eberhard Moebius, University of New Hampshire
Merav Opher, George Mason University
Jesper Schou, Stanford University
Nathan A. Schwadron, Boston University
Amy Winebarger, Alabama A&M University
Daniel Winterhalter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thomas N. Woods, University of Colorado, Boulder
DECADAL SURVEY ON BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN SPACE
The Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space was formed under the auspices of the SSB and the ASEB in response to a congressional request for a study to establish priorities and provide recommendations for life and physical sciences space research, including research that will enable exploration missions in microgravity and partial gravity for the 2010-2020 decade. The decadal survey will define research areas, recommend a research portfolio and a timeline for conducting that research, identify facility and platform requirements as appropriate, provide rationales for suggested program elements, define dependencies between research objectives, identify terrestrial benefits, and specify whether the research product directly enables exploration or produces fundamental new knowledge. These areas will be categorized as either those that are required to enable exploration missions or those that are enabled or facilitated because of exploration missions.
The steering committee’s interim report, Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era of Space Exploration: An Interim Report, was released in July 2010. Work on the final report continued during the steering committee’s October 2010 meeting.
Revisions to the report in response to comments from some 40 external peer reviewers was completed in January 2011, and the report received sign-off in February. Following editorial revisions, the prepublication version of the report, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, was delivered to NASA on March 28 and publicly released on April 5. A number of briefings with NASA and congressional staff were held in early April, including a joint briefing to the Office of Management and Budget and Office
of Science and Technology Policy staff, a briefing to the NASA Advisory Council, and a briefing to a European Science Foundation workshop.
During the fourth quarter, final publication of the report was completed and dissemination activities continued. Co-chair Betsy Cantwell gave an invited talk on the report at the International Space Station Utilization Workshop on December 16 in Tokyo, Japan.
Steering Committee Membership*
Elizabeth R. Cantwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (co-chair)
Wendy M. Kohrt, University of Colorado, Denver (co-chair)
Lars Berglund, University of California, Davis
Nicholas P. Bigelow, University of Rochester
Leonard H. Caveny, Independent Consultant
Vijay K. Dhir, University of California, Los Angeles
Joel Dimsdale, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Nikolaos A. Gatsonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Simon Gilroy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Benjamin D. Levine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Kathryn V. Logan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Gabor A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley
Charles M. Tipton, University of Arizona
Jose L. Torero, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Robert Wegeng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gayle E. Woloschak, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Staff
Sandra J. Graham, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)
Alan C. Angleman, Senior Program Officer,† ASEB
Ian W. Pryke, Senior Program Officer, SSB
Robert L. Riemer, Senior Program Officer,† Board on Physics and Astronomy
Maureen Mellody, Program Officer,† ASEB
Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB
Danielle Johnson-Bland,† Senior Program Assistant, Committee on Law and Justice
Laura Toth,† Senior Program Assistant, National Materials Advisory Board
Linda M. Walker, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
Eric Whittaker,† Senior Program Assistant, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
Animal and Human Biology Panel Membership‡
Kenneth M. Baldwin, University of California, Irvine (chair)
François M. Abboud, University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Peter R. Cavanagh, University of Washington
V. Reggie Edgerton, University of California, Los Angeles
Donna Murasko, Drexel University
John T. Potts, Jr., Massachusetts General Hospital
April E. Ronca, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Charles M. Tipton, University of Arizona
John B. West, University of California, San Diego
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*All terms expired on November 30, 2010.
†Staff from other NRC boards who assisted with the survey.
‡All terms expired on May 31, 2011.
Applied Physical Sciences Panel Membership*
Peter W. Voorhees, Northwestern University (chair)
Nikolaos A. Gatsonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Richard T. Lahey, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard M. Lueptow, Northwestern University
John J. Moore, Colorado School of Mines
Elaine S. Oran, Naval Research Laboratory
Amy L. Rechenmacher, University of Southern California
James S. T’ien, Case Western Reserve University
Mark M. Weislogel, Portland State University
Fundamental Physics Panel Membership*
Robert V. Duncan, University of Missouri (chair)
Nicholas P. Bigelow, University of Rochester
Paul M. Chaikin, New York University
Ronald G. Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
W. Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ronald Walsworth, Harvard University
Human Behavior and Mental Health Panel Membership*
Thomas J. Balkin, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (chair)
Joel E. Dimsdale, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Nick Kanas, University of California, San Francisco
Gloria R. Leon, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Lawrence A. Palinkas, University of California, San Diego
Integrative and Translational Research for the Human System Panel Membership*
James A. Pawelczyk, Pennsylvania State University (chair)
Alan R. Hargens, University of California, San Diego
Robert L. Helmreich, University of Texas, Austin (retired)
Joanne R. Lupton, Texas A&M University, College Station
Charles M. Oman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Robertson, Vanderbilt University
Suzanne M. Schneider, University of New Mexico
Gayle E. Woloschak, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Plant and Microbial Biology Panel Membership*
Terri L. Lomax, North Carolina State University (chair)
Paul Blount, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Robert J. Ferl, University of Florida
Simon Gilroy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington School of Medicine
Translation to Space Exploration Systems Panel Membership*
James P. Bagian, U.S. Air Force and University of Michigan (chair)
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*All terms expired on May 31, 2011.
Frederick R. Best, Texas A&M University, College Station
Leonard H. Caveny, Independent Consultant
Michael B. Duke, Colorado School of Mines (retired)
John P. Kizito, North Carolina A&T State University
David Y. Kusnierkiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
E. Thomas Mahefkey, Jr., Heat Transfer Technology Consultants
Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard J. Roby, Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc.
Guillermo Trotti, Trotti and Associates, Inc.
Alan Wilhite, Georgia Institute of Technology
EVALUATION OF SPACE RADIATION CANCER RISK MODEL
The Committee for Evaluation of Space Radiation Cancer Risk Model was formed to review NASA’s risk model for radiation-induced cancer in astronauts. The committee held its first on meeting on June 13-15 in Washington, D.C. The committee heard a large number of briefings describing various aspects of the proposed NASA risk model for radiation- induced cancer in astronauts and on recent research relevant to that model. After a subsequent discussion of issues related to the model with NASA participants and invited speakers, the committee went into closed session on the second day. The committee reviewed the model and identified questions and areas where additional information was needed. A report outline and writing assignments were developed and plans were made for activities leading up to the next committee meeting.
On August 3-5 the committee met in Washington, D.C., to discuss and assess component modules in the NASA risk model for radiation-induced cancer in astronauts and to draft and revise sections of the committee report. One open session was held on the second day of the meeting, in which committee members closely questioned NASA radiation scientist Francis Cucinotta regarding aspects of the proposed model and saw a demonstration of the integrated model’s desktop graphical user interface. At the close of the meeting the committee submitted additional questions of clarification to NASA and set writing assignments and schedules.
The committee held its final meeting on September 12-14, at which time it reviewed the recently published final version of the NASA model, along with a number of resource materials it had requested from NASA. During the meeting the committee reviewed and extensively revised the integrated draft of the report and worked to develop its final conclusions and recommendations. Following the meeting, committee members continued to refine sections of the report and develop summary materials in preparation for external review.
During the fourth quarter, the committee continued to finalize its draft report, and the draft entered external review in late October. After receiving the comments of each reviewer, the committee continued to refine the report to address all issues raised and this work was completed in mid-December. The report was released in prepublication form in January 2012.
Membership
R. Julian Preston, Environmental Protection Agency (chair)
Joel S. Bedford, Colorado State University
Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, National Cancer Institute
B. John Garrick, Garrick Consulting
Dudley T. Goodhead, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom (emeritus)
Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Vesalius Ventures, Inc.
Kathryn D. Held, Massachusetts General Hospital
David G. Hoel, Medical University of South Carolina
Jack R. Jokipii, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Insoo Jun, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Charles E. Land, National Cancer Institute (retired)
Hans-Georg Menzel, CERN (retired)
Peter O’Neill, University of Oxford
Staff
Sandra J. Graham, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)
Amanda R. Thibault, Research Associate, ASEB
Rodney Howard, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE
NEW WORLDS, NEW HORIZONS DECADAL SURVEY
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requested that the NRC convene a panel to consider whether NASA’s Euclid proposal is consistent with achieving the priorities, goals, and recommendations, and with pursuing the science strategy, articulated in 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH). The ad hoc Panel on Implementing Recommendations from the New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey was formed under the auspices of the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) in collaboration with the SSB. The panel also investigated what impact NASA’s participation in Euclid might have on the prospects for the timely realization of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission and other activities recommended by NWNH in view of the projected budgetary situation. A workshop was convened at the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, on November 7, 2010, and included presentations from NASA, the European Space Agency, OSTP, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and members of the domestic and foreign astronomy and astrophysics communities. In addition to the workshop, the panel met by teleconference call in 2010 on October 27, November 3, and November 16.
The report of the panel was released in prepublication form on December 10, 2010, and is reprinted in Chapter 5.
Membership*
Adam S. Burrows, Princeton University (co-chair)
Charles F. Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (co-chair)
Alan Dressler, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
Debra M. Elmegreen, Vassar College
Fiona A. Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Lynne Hillenbrand, California Institute of Technology
Steven M. Ritz, University of California, Santa Cruz
A. Thomas Young, Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)
Staff
David B. Lang, Program Officer, BPA (study director)
Caryn J. Knutsen, Associate Program Officer, BPA
Teri Thorowgood, Administrative Coordinator, BPA
Beth Dolan, Financial Associate, BPA
PLANETARY PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR ICY BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
The ad hoc Committee on Planetary Protection Standards for Icy Bodies in the Solar System was established to develop and recommend planetary protection policies for future spacecraft missions, including orbiters, landers, and subsurface probes, to the icy bodies in the outer solar system (asteroids, satellites, Kuiper belt objects, and comets) in light of current scientific understanding and ongoing improvements in mission-enabling capabilities and technologies.
Following several organizational conference calls held in the last quarter of 2010, the committee’s first and second meetings were held at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C., and the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, on January 31-February 2, 2011, and March 16-18, 2011, respectively. Both meetings were devoted to gathering the necessary biological and planetological background to
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*All terms ended on April 30, 2011.
undertake the study. A detailed outline of the committee’s report was drafted during the meeting in California. The committee held a conference call on May 13, 2011, and convened its third and final meeting at the Beckman Center on June 14-16, 2011.
A complete draft of the committee’s report was assembled during the summer months. The draft text was sent to nine external reviewers in late October. All reviews were received by late November, with the study director and committee chair meeting a final time in December to double-check facts and figures. The report has been revised in response to reviewer comments and is currently awaiting NRC approval. Delivery of a final NRC-approved document to NASA is scheduled for mid- to late March of 2012.
Membership
Mitchell L. Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory (chair)
Geoffrey Collins, Wheaton College (vice chair)
Amy Baker, Technical Administrative Services
John A. Baross, University of Washington
Amy C. Barr, Brown University
William V. Boynton, University of Arizona
Charles S. Cockell, University of Edinburgh
Michael J. Daly, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Joseph R. Fragola, Valador, Inc.
Rosaly M. Lopes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kenneth H. Nealson, University of Southern California
Douglas S. Stetson, Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group
Mark H. Thiemens, University of California, San Diego
Staff
David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)
Rodney N. Howard, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
Katie Daud, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern
Danielle Piskorz, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern
Heather D. Smith, NRC Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Anna B. Williams, NRC Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow
PLANETARY SCIENCES DECADAL SURVEY: 2013-2022
The Planetary Sciences Decadal Survey: 2013-2022 was established to develop a comprehensive science and mission strategy for planetary science that updates and extends the 2003 solar system exploration decadal survey, New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy. The new decadal survey was designed to broadly canvas the planetary science community to determine the current state of knowledge and then identify the most important scientific questions expected to face the community during the interval 2013-2022. This 2-year study was initiated at the request of NASA and NSF in 2009.
To assist its activities, the decadal survey commissioned mission studies that were undertaken at the Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In a related activity, the decadal survey engaged the services of the Aerospace Corporation to provide independent cost and technical evaluations of the highest-priority mission concepts resulting from these studies. The steering group and panel meetings and related community outreach activities began in the summer of 2009 and concluded in the summer of 2010.
The decadal survey’s report, Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022, was delivered to NASA and NSF in prepublication form in late February 2011 and was released to the public on March 7 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.
Briefings about the report’s conclusions and recommendations were given to NASA, NSF, OMB, OSTP, and various congressional committees during the period of March 1-5.
Following the release of the report, members of the steering group made presentations about the report at the meetings of VEXAG, LEAG, OPAG, the European Geophysical Union, the NAC’s Planetary Science Subcommittee, and the NAC’s Science Committee. Other dissemination activities included a series of regional town hall meetings organized by the Division for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society, which included town halls in College Park, Maryland; Boulder, Colorado; Tucson, Arizona; Orlando, Florida; New York, New York; Pasadena, California; and St. Louis, Missouri. Papers on the survey’s origin, organization, and outcome and on the survey’s public outreach activities were delivered by NRC staff at the International Astronautical Congress (Cape Town, South Africa) and at the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (Nantes, France), respectively.
An illustrated version of the survey report intended for a popular audience is currently in preparation and is currently scheduled for publication early in 2012.
Steering Group Membership*
Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University (chair)
Laurence A. Soderblom, U.S. Geological Survey (vice chair)
Wendy M. Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno
Dale Cruikshank, NASA Ames Research Center
Pascale Ehrenfreund, George Washington University
G. Scott Hubbard, Stanford University
Margaret G. Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles
B. Gentry Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jane Luu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Ralph L. McNutt, Jr., Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Harry Y. McSween, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
George A. Paulikas, The Aerospace Corporation (retired)
Amy Simon-Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
David J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology
A. Thomas Young, Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)
Staff
David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)
Dwayne A. Day, Program Officer, SSB
Abigail Sheffer, Associate Program Officer, SSB
Dionna Williams, Program Associate, SSB
Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB
Rodney N. Howard, Senior Program Assistant, SSB
Satellites Panel Membership†
John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute (chair)
David J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology (vice chair)
Glenn Fountain, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Caitlin Ann Griffith, University of Arizona
Krishan Khurana, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher P. McKay, NASA Ames Research Center
Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz
Louise M. Prockter, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
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*All terms ended in August 2011.
†Terms ended for the chair and vice chair in August 2011 and for members in October 2010.
Gerald Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas R. Spilker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Elizabeth P. Turtle, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Hunter Waite, Southwest Research Institute
Giant Planets Panel Membership*
Heidi B. Hammel, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (chair)
Amy Simon-Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (vice chair)
Reta F. Beebe, New Mexico State University
John R. Casani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
John Clarke, Boston University
Brigette Hesman, University of Maryland
William B. Hubbard, University of Arizona
Mark S. Marley, NASA Ames Research Center
Philip D. Nicholson, Cornell University
R. Wayne Richie, NASA Langley Research Center (retired)
Kunio M. Sayanagi, California Institute of Technology
Inner Planets Panel Membership*
Ellen R. Stofan, Proxemy Research, Inc. (chair)
Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute (vice chair)
Barbara A. Cohen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Martha S. Gilmore, Wesleyan University
Lori Glaze, Proxemy Research
David H. Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University
Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles K. Shearer, University of New Mexico
Douglas S. Stetson, Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group
Edward M. Stolper, California Institute of Technology
Allan H. Treiman, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Mars Panel Membership*
Philip R. Christensen, Arizona State University (chair)
Wendy M. Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno (vice chair)
Raymond E. Arvidson, Washington University
Robert D. Braun,† Georgia Institute of Technology
Glenn E. Cunningham, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (retired)
David Des Marais,‡ NASA Ames Research Center
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francois Forget, University of Paris
John P. Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology
Penelope King, University of New Mexico
Philippe Lognonne, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Paul R. Mahaffy, Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Lisa M. Pratt, Indiana University
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*Terms ended for the chair and vice chair in August 2011 and for members in October 2010.
†Term ended February 8, 2010.
‡Term ended August 1, 2010.
Primitive Bodies Panel Membership*
Joseph F. Veverka, Cornell University (chair)
Harry Y. McSween, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville (vice chair)
Erik Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology
Donald E. Brownlee, University of Washington
Marc Buie, Southwest Research Institute
Timothy J. McCoy, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Marc D. Rayman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Edward Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Mark Sephton, Imperial College London
Jessica Sunshine, University of Maryland, College Park
Faith Vilas, MMT Observatory
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*Terms ended for the chair and vice chair in August 2011 and for members in October 2010.
