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Goddard View

05/14/2013
Volume 9, Issue 5 - The thermal shield of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST goes through rigorous environmental testing to ensure it can perform properly in the extreme cold temperatures that it will encounter in space.

Exoplanet Science Definition Teams

04/30/2013
NASA HQ has announced the selections for membership on the two Exoplanet Science Definition Teams, to study Probe scale (<1B$) missions for consideration by the Astrophysics mid-Decadal survey. Five folks from Goddard were selected!

The selections are:
    Coronagraph SDT:
    Karl Stapelfeldt (667 - chair)
    Mike McElwain (667)
    Occulter SDT:
    Shawn Domegal-Goldman (690)
    Marc Kuchner (667)
    Aki Roberge (667)

Cutting Edge

04/24/2013
NICER/SEXTANT and Super-TIGER are featured in Volume 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2013) of the Cutting Edge

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

04/11/2013
The TESS video of mission operations is now posted on YouTube.

Congratulations to the NICER and TESS teams!

04/05/2013
HQ has just announced the selections of the next two Explorer missions. Congratulations go to Dr Keith Gendreau (X-ray Astrophysics Lab) and his team for the selected NICER mission! This is an X-ray telescope dedicated to observe timing of neutron stars. NICER will be placed on the  ISS to observe pulsars to both determine the structure of neutron stars and to demonstrate their use as deep space navigation beacons. The TESS mission is led by George Ricker at MIT and managed by GSFC. TESS will make a survey of nearby stars to search for Exo-planets and will provide targets for JWST to observe and characterize their atmospheres, potentially finding nearby habitable planets in nearby solar systems.

Congratulations to Harvey Moseley!

02/27/2013
Please congratulate Harvey Moseley -- he is the recipient of the SPIE's 2013 George W. Goddard award!

The citation reads:  "in recognition of his extraordinary inventions of superconducting imaging arrays for astronomy, ranging from submillimeter bolometers to energy sensitive x-ray microcalorimeters, and even dark matter detectors, as well as microshutter arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope near-IR spectrometer".

Jack Tueller Passes

02/20/2013
Dr Jack Tueller from the Astroparticle Physics Lab (661) in the Astrophysics Division passed away February 20, 2012 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jack came to Goddard in 1979 after a PhD with advisor Martin Israel at Washington University, St. Louis. He successfully flew his own cosmic ray thesis balloon instrument as a graduate student. At Goddard he pursued gamma-ray astronomy and became a world-renowned experimental astrophysicist. He worked with Bonnard Teegarden on the LEGS and GRIS balloon spectrometers and became the Principal Investigator for GRIS in 1993. GRIS was a highly successful payload with 8 successful flights and scientific discoveries of gamma-ray line emission from SN 1987A and the distribution of positron annihilation line emission from the galactic center region. For these findings, he shared in the Lindsay award in 1991. Jack was recently leading the InFOCuS balloon instrument for hard X-ray focusing science. He was the Project Scientist for NASA's balloon program. He was also highly active in the analysis of hard X-ray survey data from the BAT instrument on Swift. Jack was an ebullient and happy character who was the life of whatever activity he was involved with. Jack will be greatly missed by us all.

Goddard View

02/07/2013
Volume 9, Issue 1 - The James Webb Space Telescope marked another year of significant progress in 2012 as flight instrumentation was completed and delivered to NASA.

2012 Robert H. Goddard Awards for ASD

02/06/2013
Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit (Goddard's highest award): Bruce Woodgate (667)
Citation:  For exceptional career achievements in science and service to Goddard and NASA
Science: Timothy Kallman (662) - Citation: For his outstanding performance as GEMS Project Scientist
Eliahu Dwek (665) - Citation: For developing new, detailed, and observationally confirmed models of the formation, evolution, and destruction of cosmic dust grains, from supernovae to shock waves and star-forming regions.
Jane Rigby (665) - Citation: For using gravitational lensing to map a distant galaxy in unprecedented detail.
HEASARC Team (660.1) - [Team list: Alan Smale, Tom McGlynn, Bill Pence, Frank Marshall, Lorella Angelini, Dave Chuss, Phil Newman, Keith Arnaud, Mike Corcoran, Steve Drake, Steve Sturner, Laura McDonald, Ed Sabol, Craig Gordon, Bryan Irby, Pan Chai, Urmila Prasad, Michael Greason] Citation: For enabling new science results from NASA missions by providing high quality software for data search, retrieval and analysis through the HEASARC data archive research center
Safety: Curtis Odell (660) - Citation: For thorough and detailed investigation into the root cause of the laboratory fire in Building 34, Room C259, and his efforts to define and implement a recovery plan.
Mentoring: Joan Centrella (660) - Citation: For her demonstrated commitment to mentoring women scientists at all stages of their careers, which has resulted in a positive and supportive professional environment for all.
Outreach: Frank Reddy (660) - Citation: For outstanding dedication to public outreach through the media, including exceptional scientific writing and coordination with NASA video producers, resulting in high-impact Astrophysics press releases and features.

Congratulations to Alice Harding

01/11/2013
Dr Alice Harding has been awarded the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division Rossi Prize. The award is made jointly to Alice and Dr Roger Romani from Stanford University. The citation reads "To Alice K Harding and Roger W. Romani for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding gamma-ray pulsars."

Goddard View

12/07/2012
Volume 8, Issue 11 - Dr. Eli Dwek and Dr. Neil Gehrels of Goddard, and Dr. Lynn Cominsky of NASA’s Fermi and Swift missions have been named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The election of an AAAS fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Congratulations to new AAAS Fellows

11/30/2012
Dr. Eli Dwek and Dr. Neil Gehrels in  have been named as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Eli's citation reads "for his distinguished contributions to the theory of the evolution and nature of interstellar dust grains, including formation and destruction, emission and absorption of light, and unified models of observations." Neil's "for his leadership on the Swift, Compton, Integral, and future dark energy missions."

Congratulations to new APS Fellow

11/26/2012
Please congratulate Dr. Demos Kazanas for his election to Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The citation reads "For diverse contributions to Astrophysics, ranging from a 1980 independent resolution, of the cosmological horizon problem using the vacuum energy of spontaneously broken gauge theory -- to the recent idea that AGN appearance depends on the properties of MHD winds launched from their accretion disks."

Congratulations to RIck Lyon!

11/08/2012
Please congratulate Rick Lyon (667) for receiving the James Kerley Award, along with other members of the wavefront sensing group in the Optics Branch.

This award is presented annually by Goddard's Innovative Partnerships Office.  Rick is being honored "for his enthusiasm and technical leadership in technology development and his support in outreaching to industry for commercial and other Government Agency applications of the Wavefront Sensing suite of technologies". 

Fall 2012 CuttingEdge

10/31/2012
Michael McElwain (667) and Karl Stapelfeldt (667) are featured in the Fall 2012 issue of the CuttingEdge.

Congratulations to John Mather!

10/26/2012
John Mather has been noted among Time Magazine's 25 most influential people in space in the recent "New Space Discoveries" edition.

Goddard View

10/17/2012
Swift is featured in Volume 8, Issue 9 of the Goddard View.

Goddard View

09/13/2012
Maxim Markevitch's inspiration from a roll of tape is featured in Volume 8, Issue 8 of the Goddard View.

Welcome Padi Boyd to the Division Office!

09/11/2012
While Joan Centrella is on a 1 year detail to NASA HQ, Padi will be Acting Deputy Division Director.

Goddard View

09/05/2012
The James Webb Space Telescope is featured in Volume 8, Issue 7 of the Goddard View.

Congratulations to Alice Harding for winning the Lindsay Award this year!

08/23/2012
Dr. Alice Harding (Code 663)
Citation: For her achievement in the understanding of pulsars, through theoretical studies and interpretation of data from the Fermi mission.

Goddard View

08/10/2012
The James Webb Space Telescope is featured in Volume 8, Issue 6 of the Goddard View.

NASA Agency Honor Award winners for 2012

06/28/2012
Please congratulate the following individual winners of 2012 NASA Agency Honor Awards - Peter Serlemitsos (662), Alice Harding (663), Bernie Rauscher (665), Randy Kimble (667), Susan Neff (665), Ann Hornschemeier (662), and Will Zhang (662). Also the BESS-POLAR II Recovery Team (661) won a Group Achievement Medal.

Neil Gehrels to receive COSPAR Massey Award

06/19/2012
The citation reads:

Throughout his career, Dr. Gehrels has been dedicated to advancing high energy astrophysics from space and to increasing our understanding of explosive events in the universe. His pioneering contributions have opened up the gamma-ray range as an astronomical discipline through his leadership of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the SWIFT Mission. His contributions have significantly increased our understanding of gamma-ray phenomena, unveiling the long-sought origin of short gamma-ray bursts.

It is for these reasons, and many more, that Dr. Gehrels is a well-deserving recipient of the 2012 COSPAR Massey Award.

Goddard View

06/19/2012
The James Webb Space Telescope is featured in Volume 8, Issue 5 of the Goddard View.
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