My major focus for the last decade, as first Planetary Data System (PDS) project manager and currently office head of Goodard's Solar System Exploration Data Services office is ensuring that we have complete, searchable, secure archives of all of NASA's planetary mission data. My research interests are exospheres and tails of Mercury and the Moon as seen by observing them at the sodium and potassium resonance lines.
My current research interests are observations of planetary exospheres, and scientific archiving.
1/1973
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12/1975
National Research Council Post Doctoral Position
NRC/NAS,
Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center I worked on UV spectra of late type stars
1/1975
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8/1979
Assistant Professor of Physics
Houston Baptist University,
Houston Texas Houston Bptist University is a small liberal arts college in Texas. over my period there, I taught introductory and advanced undergraduate physics courses, and courses for non-scientists.
9/1979
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6/1987
Assistant Professor of Physics
Southwestern University,
Georgetown Texas I taught most of the undergraduate physics curriculum and astronomy courses. I was acting head of the physics department for 2 years.
9/1987
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8/1989
Senior NRC Postdoctoral Position
NRC/NAS,
Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center During this period I observed the Na and K exospheres of Mercury and the Moon.
9/1989
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8/1991
Visiting Senior Scientist
NASA HQ
USRA,
Washington DC Worked with Dr. Jurgen Rahe managing the planetary astronony program and early programmatic efforts to start NASA's Near Earth Objects program. I also assisted on other research management tasks.
9/1991
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9/2001
Senior Scientist
Southwest Research Institute,
San Antonio, Texas I worked on a number of areas, but continued my work on observations and analysis of the lunar and Mercurian exospheres.
For part of this period, I served as an IPA at NASA Headquarters.
9/2001
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3/2010
Program Scientist and Program Executive
National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters
Washington DC In this period, I served as New Frontiers Program Scientist, Program Scientsit for the NEOO program, Both Program Executive and Program Scientist ofr the Stardust mission and in many other capacities.
3/2010
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Present
Project Manager PDS, Office Head SSESDO
code 690.1
Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt Maryland
International Astronomical Union,
1978
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Present
American Astronomical Society,
1968
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Present
Refereed
Killen, R. M., T. H. Morgan, A. E. Potter, et al. 2019. "Coronagraphic observations of the lunar sodium exosphere January–June, 2017."
Icarus,
[10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.027]
Crichton, D., J. S. Hughes, S. Hardman, et al. 2014. "A scalable planetary science information architecture for big science data”, IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science."
IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science,
1:
196-203.
Potter, A., T. Morgan, and R. Killen. 2009. "Sodium winds on Mercury."
Icarus,
204
(2):
355-367
[10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.028]
My major focus for the last decade, as first Planetary Data System (PDS) project manager and currently office head of Goodard's Solar System Exploration Data Services office is ensuring that we have complete, searchable, secure archives of all of NASA's planetary mission data. My research interests are exospheres and tails of Mercury and the Moon as seen by observing them at the sodium and potassium resonance lines.
Refereed
Killen, R. M., T. H. Morgan, A. E. Potter, et al. 2019. "Coronagraphic observations of the lunar sodium exosphere January–June, 2017."
Icarus
[10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.027]
Crichton, D., J. S. Hughes, S. Hardman, et al. 2014. "A scalable planetary science information architecture for big science data”, IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science."
IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science
1
196-203
Potter, A., T. Morgan, and R. Killen. 2009. "Sodium winds on Mercury."
Icarus
204
(2):
355-367
[10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.028]
