Dr. Jamie Elsila Cook

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Dr. Jamie Elsila Cook

  • (AST, SOLAR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS)
  • 301.286.9160
  • Org Code: 691
  • NASA/GSFC
  • Mail Code: 691
  • Greenbelt, MD 20771
  • Employer: NASA
  • Brief Bio

    Dr. Jamie Elsila (Cook) is an Astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with a research emphasis on stable isotopic signatures of extraterrestrial organic compounds. She is responsible for the isotopic measurement side of Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory and focuses her research on the measurement of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen stable isotopic ratios in extraterrestrial organics, including amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites and cometary material returned by the Stardust mission.  She is also a scientific Co-Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Goddard Center for Astrobiology. 

    Current Projects

    Goddard Center for Astrobiology, NASA Astrobiology Institute

    NASA Cosmochemistry

    Positions/Employment

    Research Scientist 5/2007 - Present
    Astrochemistry Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
    Principal Investigator 10/2006 - 5/2007
    SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA
    Post-Doctoral Researcher 10/2004 - 10/2006
    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
    Graduate Student 9/1999 - 9/2004
    Chemistry Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
    Peace Corps Volunteer, Secondary Science and Math Education 9/1996 - 12/1998
    United States Peace Corps, Masasi, Tanzania
    Intern 1/1996 - 4/1996
    NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

    Education

    Ph.D. (Chemistry - 2004) Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    B.A. (Chemistry, summa cum laude - 1996) Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI

    Professional Societies

    American Chemical Society, 1999- Present

    Brief Bio

    Dr. Jamie Elsila (Cook) is an Astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with a research emphasis on stable isotopic signatures of extraterrestrial organic compounds. She is responsible for the isotopic measurement side of Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory and focuses her research on the measurement of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen stable isotopic ratios in extraterrestrial organics, including amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites and cometary material returned by the Stardust mission.  She is also a scientific Co-Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Goddard Center for Astrobiology. 

                                                                                                                                                                                            
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