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Congratulations to NASA honor awardees!

06/14/2013
Distinguished Service Medal
Jean Swank (662)
Bruce Woodgate (667)

Exceptional Achievement Medal
Mark Clampin (667)
Michael Ressler (665)

Exceptional Public Achievement Medal
Dale Fixsen (665)

Group Achievement Award
CSBF Antarctic Scientific Balloon Team (661)
SuperTIGER Balloon Team/John Mitchell (661)

Congratulations to Mike McElwain!

05/29/2013
Please congratulate Mike McElwain on being selected as the winner of this year's Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship!

Mike was first selected last year, along with 2 other scientists, to complete a phase-A study for his proposed instrument development. NASA HQ evaluated the proposals this Spring, and has selected Mike to receive funding for the next 4 years to build PISCES, an integral field spectrograph (IFS) to be deployed at the High Contrast Imaging Testbed (HCIT) at JPL. This will lay the ground-work for an eventual IFS in space to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres.

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)

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Goddard View

12/01/2011
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Exoplanets Conference are both featured in Volume 7, Issue 8 of the Goddard View.

2011 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award

10/26/2011
Congratulations to Sarah Eyermann and members of the JWST NIRSpec Detector team for winning Robert H Goddard Awards in 2011!

Sarah Eyermann
Award: Exceptional Achievement Award in Outreach
Citation: For outstanding leadership and coordination of the Afterschool Universe program during its development, culminating in a successful train-the-trainer workshop and nationwide dissemination network.

JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) Instrument Detector System Team
Award: Exceptional Achievement Award in Engineering (Team)
Citation: For outstanding accomplishment in the development and delivery of the JWST NIRSpec flight detector system. Team members from ASD: Bernie Rauscher, Bob Hill (Jr), Meng Chiao, Greg Delo, Don Lindler, Ori Fox

ESB Outfitting Project Team
Award:  Customer Service Award
ASD members of the team:  Curtis Odell and Larry Olsen

Goddard View

09/30/2011
The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble are both featured in Volume 7, Issue 7 of the Goddard View.

Explorers Program

09/29/2011
NASA announced the selection of Explorer concepts for phase A studies. ASD did quite well -- Keith Gendreau's NICER mission (PI: Keith Gendreau, Deputy PI: Zaven Arzoumanian) of opportunity was selected! And the TESS exoplanet mission (PI: George Ricker, MIT, Project Scientist: Stephen Rinehart, co-Is: Mark Clampin & Drake Deming), was selected for study. In addition, one Explorer proposal was selected for technology investment, the EXCEDE mission (Glenn Schneider, PI from Univ of Arizona). Marc Kuchner is a co-I on this proposal.

Goddard View

08/11/2011
Blueshift is featured in Volume 7, Issue 5 of the Goddard View. See page 9.

NASA Honor Award

06/20/2011
Please congratulate the 2011 NASA Honor Award recipients!

New 667 Lab Chief

03/18/2011
Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) will be the next Chief of the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Lab (667). Karl has an excellent reputation as a research scientist in the fields of circumstellar disks, young stars, and exoplanets.

Goddard View

11/16/2010
Dr. Marc Kuchner and JWST are both featured in Volume 6, Issue 12 of the Goddard View.

Goddard View

10/01/2010
Jennifer Wiseman, the Exoplanet Club, and Webb Telescope are all featured in Volume 6, Issue 10 of the Goddard View.

2010 Robert H Goddard Awards for Science

09/21/2010
Congratulations to Matt Greenhouse, Randy Kimble and Alexander Moiseev for winning the 2010 Robert H Goddard Awards for Science!

National Geographic Television Special

08/12/2010
Be sure to watch the National Geographic Television special "Alien Earths" on Sunday, August 15, at 8 p.m. Join leading astronomers on a visual journey beyond our solar system in search of planets like Earth. The program includes interviews with Marc Kuchner (Code 667) and Mario Livio, education and public outreach head and senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

GSFC SED Honor Awards

07/30/2010
Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 GSFC Honor Awards! Science: Alexander Moiseev (661), Matthew Greenhouse (665), Randy Kimble (667); Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit: Richard Mushotzky (662)

Goddard View

06/03/2010
Dr. Neil Gehrels, Swift, Hubble, and JWST are all featured in Volume 6, Issue 4 of the Goddard View.

2010 Science Jamboree

05/12/2010
Plans for the second annual science jamboree on June 2nd are progressing well. Please keep this day open on your calendars and avoid scheduling other meetings the same day! This will be a great opportunity to mix and mingle with your colleagues and see all the exciting science we lead at the center.

2009 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

02/18/2010
Please congratulate Mark Clampin for being a member of a team receiving the 2009 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, awarded annually for the most outstanding article published in the journal Science. The paper, by Kalas et al, announced the direct detection of an exoplanet in the Fomalhaut system with HST: Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth. (Also available on astro-ph.)
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