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Panel members named to planetary sciences decadal survey

JUL 27, 2009

The National Research Council’s Executive Office has announced the nominations of the scientists that will be in the four of the five panels—the Inner Planets, Mars, Primitive Bodies and Satellites—that form the Planetary Sciences Decadal Survey .

Membership of the Giant Planets Panel will be announced later in the year.

Paul Guinnessy

INNER PLANETS

Chair1. Ellen Stofan, Proxemy Research

Vice chair2. Steve Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute

3. Ayana Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology4. Douglas Stetson, Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group5. Barbara Cohen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center6. Martha Gilmore, Wesleyan University7. Alan Treiman, Lunar and Planetary Institute8. Steven Hauck, Case Western Reserve University9. Charles Shearer, University of New Mexico10. Edward Stolper, California Institute of Technology11. Lori Glaze, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center12. David Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature and ScienceMARS

Chair1. Phil Christensen, Arizona State University

Vice chair2. Wendy Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno

3. Bobby Braun, Georgian Institute of Technology4. Glen Cunningham, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retired5. Raymond Arvidson, Washington University, St. Louis6. John Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology7. Linda Elkins-Tanton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology8. Penny King, University of New Mexico9. Francois Forget, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace10. Paul Mahaffy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center11. David Des Marais, NASA Ames Research Center12. Lisa Pratt, University of Indiana

SATELLITES

Chair1. John Spencer, South West Research Institute, Boulder

Vice chair2. David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology

3. Glen Fountain, Applied Physics Laboratory4. Tom Spilker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory5. Louise Prockter, Applied Physics Laboratory6 Elizabeth Turtle, Applied Physics Laboratory7. Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz8. Jerry Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles9. Krishan Khurana, University of California, Los Angeles10. Hunter Waite, South West Research Institute, San Antonio11. Caitlin Griffith, University of Arizona12. Chris McKay, NASA Ames Research Center

PRIMITIVE BODIES

Chair1. Joseph Veverka, Cornell University

Vice chair2. Harry Y. McSween, University of Tennessee, vice chair

3. Marc Rayman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory4. Edward Reynolds, Applied Physics Laboratory5. Jessica Sunshine, University of Maryland6. Eric Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz7. Timothy McCoy, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History8. Mark Sephton, Imperial College9. Faith Vilas, Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory10. Donald Brownlee, University of Washington11. Marc Buie, South West Research Institute, Boulder12. Michael Brown, California Institute of Technology

More about the authors

Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org

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