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From page 22... ... assessMeNT OF iMPeDiMeNTs TO iNTeraGeNCY COOPeraTiON ON sPaCe aND earTh sCieNCe MissiONs The ad hoc Committee on the Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions was formed to assess impediments, including cost growth, to the successful conduct of interagency cooperation on Earth science and space science missions; to identify lessons learned and best practices from past interagency Earth science and space science missions; and to recommend steps to help facilitate successful interagency collaborations on Earth science and space science missions. The committee held its first meeting July 30-31 in Washington, D.C. Read the entire page →
From page 23... ... At the second full committee meeting at the National Academies' Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, on November 11-12, agreement was reached on the overall report philosophy, and format and writing assignments were made. The committee determined that additional site visits were needed, and committee subgroups visited Ames Research Center's space activities on December 2-3 and the Marshall Space Flight Center Read the entire page →
From page 24... ... Sommerer,* Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory James M Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... Chamberlain, Administrative Coordinator, SSB Caryn Knutsen, Research Associate, BPA LaVita Coates-Fogle, Senior Program Assistant, BPA (until October 2009) Beth Dolan, Financial Associate, DEPS Panel on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics Membership David Spergel, Princeton University (chair) Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (vice chair) Deepto Chakrabarty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suzanne Hawley, University of Washington Jeffrey Kuhn, University of Hawaii Stanley Owocki, University of Delaware Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State University Eliot Quataert, University of California, Berkeley Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University Lee Anne Willson, Iowa State University Stanford Woosley, University of California, Santa Cruz Panel on Galactic Neighborhood Membership Michael Shull, University of Colorado (chair) Read the entire page →
From page 27... ... Andrew Baker, Rutgers University Neta Bahcall, Princeton University Romeel Davé, University of Arizona Tiziana di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University Henric Krawczynski, Washington University Joseph Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Richard Mushotzky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Chris Reynolds, University of Maryland Alice Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles Tommaso Treu, University of California, Santa Barbara Jaqueline van Gorkom, Columbia University Eric Wilcots, University of Wisconsin Panel on Radio, Millimeter and Submillimeter from the Ground Membership Neal Evans, University of Texas (chair) James M Read the entire page →
From page 28... ... GuhaThakurta, University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory Michael Hauser, Space Telescope Science Institute Harold McAlister, Georgia State University Peter Michelson, Stanford University Ben Oppenheimer, American Museum of Natural History Frits Paerels, Columbia University Adam Reiss, Johns Hopkins University George Rieke, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Paul Schechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Todd Tripp, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation Membership Jacqueline Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair) Eric Adelberger, University of Washington Andreas Albrecht, University of California, Davis Elena Aprile, Columbia University Jonathan Arons, University of California, Berkeley Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology Joan Centrella, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard University Kathy Flanagan, Space Telescope Science Institute Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University Jim Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara Steve Kahn, Stanford University Jeremy Kasdin, Princeton University Teresa Montaruli, University of Wisconsin, Madison Angela Olinto, University of Chicago Rene Ong, University of California, Los Angeles Helen Quinn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center COsT GrOWTh iN Nasa earTh aND sPaCe sCieNCe MissiONs The ad hoc Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions was formed to review existing cost growth studies related to NASA space and Earth science missions and identify their key causes of cost growth and strategies for mitigating cost growth; assess whether those key causes remain applicable in the current environment and identifying any new major causes; and evaluate the effectiveness of current and planned NASA cost growth mitigation strategies and, as appropriate, recommend new strategies to ensure frequent mission opportunities. Read the entire page →
From page 29... ... Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute John M Klineberg, Loral Space and Communications, Ltd. Read the entire page →
From page 30... ... The panels attending the meeting were the Plant and Microbial Biology Panel, the Animal and Human Biology Panel, the Human Behavior and Mental Health Panel, the Applied Physical Sciences Panel, the Integrative and Translational Research for the Human System Panel, and the Translation to Space Exploration Systems Panel. Approximately 70 attendees were given an overview of the study by steering committee co-chair Betsy Cantwell and heard detailed background briefings on NASA's exploration needs, research capabilities, and program status and history. Read the entire page →
From page 31... ... Rechenmacher, University of Southern California James T'ien, Case Western Reserve University Mark M Weislogel, Portland State University Fundamental Physics Panel Membership Robert V Read the entire page →
From page 32... ... Schneider, University of New Mexico Gayle E Woloschak, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Plant and Microbial Biology Panel Membership Terri L Read the entire page →
From page 33... ... ; and NASA mission-enabling issues (Lennard Fisk, chair of the Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions, and staff officer Joseph Alexander) Read the entire page →
From page 34... ... Andrew F Cheng, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory Frank Culbertson, Jr., Orbital Sciences Corporation David C Read the entire page →
From page 35... ... Cheng, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Robert D Culp, University of Colorado, Boulder Yanga Fernandez, University of Central Florida Lynne Jones, University of Washington Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute Amy Mainzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Gordon H Read the entire page →
From page 36... ... . To assist its activities, the decadal survey has commissioned mission studies to be undertaken at the Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read the entire page →
From page 37... ... Turtle, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory Hunter Waite, University of Michigan Giant Planet Panel Membership Heidi B Hammel, Space Science Institute (chair) Read the entire page →
From page 38... ... McCoy, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History Marc D Rayman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edward Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory Mark Sephton, Imperial College London Jessica Sunshine, University of Maryland, College Park Faith Vilas, MMT Observatory Read the entire page →
From page 39... ... * Now at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Read the entire page →
From page 40... ... rOLe aND sCOPe OF MissiON-eNaBLiNG aCTiViTies iN Nasa's sPaCe aND earTh sCieNCe MissiONs The ad hoc Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions was formed to provide strategic advice on activities that traditionally encompass much of NASA's research and analysis programs and that include support for theory, modeling, and data analysis; suborbital flights and complementary ground-based programs; and advanced mission and instrumentation concept studies. The committee met on January 21-23 at the National Academies' Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, and on March 11-13 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C., to gather Read the entire page →
From page 41... ... A prepublication version of the report, An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions, was delivered to NASA and congressional offices on November 30 and was released to the public on December 4. Final printed editions of the report were disseminated in February 2010. Read the entire page →

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... assessMeNT OF iMPeDiMeNTs TO iNTeraGeNCY COOPeraTiON ON sPaCe aND earTh sCieNCe MissiONs The ad hoc Committee on the Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions was formed to assess impediments, including cost growth, to the successful conduct of interagency cooperation on Earth science and space science missions; to identify lessons learned and best practices from past interagency Earth science and space science missions; and to recommend steps to help facilitate successful interagency collaborations on Earth science and space science missions. The committee held its first meeting July 30-31 in Washington, D.C.

3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership Pages 22-41

3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership
Pages 22-41