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.
Thomas H Morgan
(Head)
| Email: | thomas.h.morgan@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.1743 |
| Org Code: | 690.1 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 690.1 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Brief Bio
Research Interests
My current research interests are observations of planetary exospheres, and scientific archiving.
Solar System: MercuryPositions/Employment
National Research Council Post Doctoral Position
NRC/NAS - Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center
January 1973 - December 1975
I worked on UV spectra of late type stars
Assistant Professor of Physics
Houston Baptist University - Houston Texas
January 1975 - August 1979
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.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Southwestern University - Georgetown Texas
September 1979 - June 1987
I taught most of the undergraduate physics curriculum and astronomy courses. I was acting head of the physics department for 2 years.
Senior NRC Postdoctoral Position
NRC/NAS - Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center
September 1987 - August 1989
During this period I observed the Na and K exospheres of Mercury and the Moon.
Visiting Senior Scientist NASA HQ
USRA - Washington DC
September 1989 - August 1991
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.
Senior Scientist
Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio, Texas
September 1991 - September 2001
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.
Program Scientist and Program Executive
National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Planetary Science Division Science Mission Directorate NASA Headquarters Washington DC
September 2001 - March 2010
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.
Project Manager PDS, Office Head SSESDO
code 690.1 Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt Maryland
March 2010 - Present
Professional Societies
International Astronomical Union
1978 - Present
American Astronomical Society
1968 - Present
Selected Publications
Refereed
2019. "Coronagraphic observations of the lunar sodium exosphere January–June, 2017." Icarus [10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.027] [Journal Article/Letter]
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 [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Sodium winds on Mercury." Icarus 204 (2): 355-367 [10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.028] [Journal Article/Letter]