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Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26073.
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Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership

When a sponsor requests that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study, an ad hoc committee is established for that purpose. The committee terminates when the study is completed. These study committees are subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Section 15, because they provide advice and recommendations to the federal government. The Space Studies Board (SSB) and/or one of its discipline committees provide oversight for ad hoc study committee activities. Six ad hoc study committees and thirteen panels were active during 2019; their activities and membership are summarized below. The SSB collaborated on one study with the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA), the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020.

DECADAL SURVEY ON ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 2020 (ASTRO2020)

The Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020, started in late 2018, is a partnership between the National Academies and the astronomical community to identify key priorities in astronomy and astrophysics and develop a comprehensive strategy for agency investments in the upcoming decade. The committee solicited and accepted science white papers from January 7 to March 11, 2019. The survey co-chairs (appointed in late 2018) held a webinar on April 17, 2019, to discuss plans for the study and take questions from the community. White papers on activities, projects, and state of the profession considerations (APCs) were accepted from June 4 to July 10, 2019.

The survey’s steering committee held its first meeting in Washington, DC, on July 15-17, 2019. The committee heard presentations on the perspectives from the following three of the sponsoring agencies: NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy. Presentations were also given by staff of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Office of Management and Budget. The Aerospace Corporation presented an overview of the technical, risk, and cost evaluation (TRACE) process, and the committee heard lessons learned from the chair of the Astro2010 decadal survey and the chair of its subsequent midterm assessment.

The six science panels held their first meetings in August and September of 2019 and their second, final meetings in September and October of 2019. Each science panel reviewed the science white papers relevant to their topic areas. They were finalizing their deliverables at the end of the year. The six program panels and the state of the profession and societal impacts panel held their first meetings in October and November of 2019, and their next two meetings will be held between January and March 2020. These panels are reviewing the APC papers from the community.

The steering committee held its second meeting on December 9-11, 2019, and heard reports from the science panels and initial thoughts from the program panels. Additional outreach included town hall meetings at the January 2019 and June 2019 American Astronomical Society (AAS) meetings and a webinar on October 28, 2019. A

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town hall and a listening session on the state of the profession are planned for the January 2020 AAS meeting. More information on Astro2020 is available at http://nas.edu/astro2020.

Steering Committee Membership

Fiona A. Harrison, NAS, California Institute of Technology (co-chair)

Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr., NAS, University of Arizona (co-chair)

Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington

Tim de Zeeuw, Leiden University

Andrew S. Driesman, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Jonathan J. Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gabriela Gonzalez, NAS, Louisiana State University

Jordan A. Goodman, University of Maryland

Marc P. Kamionkowski, NAS, Johns Hopkins University

Bruce Macintosh, Stanford University

Jacobus M. Oschmann, SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics

Rachel A. Osten, Space Telescope Science Institute

Lyman A. Page, Jr., NAS, Princeton University

Eliot Quataert, NAS, University of California, Berkeley

Wanda A. Sigur, NAE, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Rachel Somerville, Rutgers University Flatiron Institute

Keivan G. Stassun, Vanderbilt University

Jean L. Turner, University of California, Los Angeles

Pieter van Dokkum, Yale University

Ellen Gould Zweibel, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Staff

Abigail Sheffer, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Gregory Mack, Senior Program Officer, BPA

Mia Brown, Research Associate, SSB

Dionna Wise, Program Coordinator, SSB

Colleen N. Hartman, Director for Space and Aeronautics

James Lancaster, Director, Board on Physics and Astronomy

Panel on Compact Objects and Energetic Phenomena

Deepto Chakrabarty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair)

Laura B. Chomiuk, Michigan State University

Daniel Holz, University of Chicago

Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University

Julie McEnery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Peter I. Meszaros, Pennsylvania State University

Ramesh Narayan, NAS, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Eliot Quataert, NAS, University of California, Berkeley

Scott M. Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Todd A. Thompson, Ohio State University

Gregory Mack, Senior Program Officer, BPA

Erik Saari, Administrative Assistant, Board on Army Research and Development (BOARD; through November 2019)

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Panel on Cosmology

Daniel Eisenstein, NAS, Harvard University (chair)

Lindsey E. Bleem, Argonne National Laboratory

Marc P. Kamionkowski, NAS, Johns Hopkins University

Rachel Mandelbaum, Carnegie Mellon University

Miguel Morales, University of Washington

Daniel M. Scolnic, Duke University

Matias Zaldarriaga, NAS, Institute for Advanced Study

Kathryn M. Zurek, Theoretical High Energy Physics Group

James Myska, Program Officer, National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB)

Linda Walker, Program Coordinator, BPA

Panel on Galaxies

Daniela Calzetti, NAS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (chair)

Michael Boylan-Kolchin, University of Texas, Austin

Hsiao-Wen Chen, University of Chicago

Ann E. Hornschemeier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Susan A. Kassin, Space Telescope Science Institute

Amanda A. Kepley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Charles C. Steidel, NAS, California Institute of Technology

Daniel K. Stern, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tommaso Treu, University of California, Los Angeles

Pieter van Dokkum, Yale University

David H. Weinberg, Ohio State University

Erik Svedberg, Senior Program Officer, NMMB

Shenae Bradley, Administrative Assistant, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

Panel on Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Solar System

Victoria S. Meadows, University of Washington (chair)

David Brain, University of Colorado

Ian J. Crossfield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Courtney Dressing, University of California, Berkeley

Jonathan J. Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tiffany Kataria, California Institute of Technology

Kathleen Mandt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Mark S. Marley, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Britney E. Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Christopher C. Stark, Space Telescope Science Institute

Chris Jones, Program Officer, BPA

Erik Saari, Administrative Assistant, BOARD (through November 2019)

Panel on the Interstellar Medium and Star and Planet Formation

Lee W. Hartmann, University of Michigan (chair)

Sean M. Andrews, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Philip J. Armitage, Stony Brook University, The State University of New York

Bruce T. Draine, NAS, Princeton University

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Kaitlin M. Kratter, University of Arizona

Karin M. Sandstrom, University of California, San Diego

Snezana Stanimirovic, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ellen Gould Zweibel, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Greg Eyring, Senior Program Officer, NMMB

Linda Walker, Program Coordinator, BPA

Panel on Stars, the Sun, and Stellar Populations

Sarbani Basu, Yale University (chair)

Nancy S. Brickhouse, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Adam Burgasser, University of California, San Diego

Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington

Jennifer A. Johnson, Ohio State University

R.T.J. McAteer, New Mexico State University

Elisa V. Quintana, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Louis-Gregory Strolger, Space Telescope Science Institute

Sandra Graham, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Gaybrielle Holbert, Program Assistant, SSB

Panel on an Enabling Foundation for Research

David N. Spergel, NAS, Princeton University (chair)

Michael Blanton, New York University

Kelle Cruz, Hunter College

Mark Devlin, University of Pennsylvania

Megan Donahue, Michigan State University

Keith Hawkins, University of Texas, Austin

Alina Kiessling, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Karin Oberg, Harvard University

Angela V. Olinto, University of Chicago

Bernard Rauscher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Rachel Somerville, Rutgers University Flatiron Institute

James M. Stone, Princeton University

Greg Eyring, Senior Program Officer, NMMB

Linda Walker, Program Coordinator, BPA

Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space 1

Marcia J. Rieke, NAS, University of Arizona (chair)

Ruslan Belikov, NASA Ames Research Center

Rebecca A. Bernstein, Carnegie Institution for Science

Lester Cohen, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Nikole K. Lewis, Cornell University

Bruce Macintosh, Stanford University

Amy Mainzer, University of Arizona

Mark P. Saunders, Independent Consultant

Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Arizona State University

George Sonneborn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

C. Megan Urry, NAS, Yale University

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Dwayne Day, Senior Program Officer, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB)

Linda Walker, Program Coordinator, BPA

Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space 2

Steven M. Kahn, Stanford University (chair)

Lisa Barsotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Allison Barto, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation

Michael Bay, Bay Engineering Innovations

Martin Elvis, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Charles J. Hailey, Columbia University

Chryssa Kouveliotou, NAS, George Washington University

Charles R. Lawrence, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

S. Harvey Moseley, Jr., Quantum Circuits, Inc.

Reshmi Mukherjee, Barnard College

Lyman A. Page, Jr., NAS, Princeton University

Gordon J. Stacey, Cornell University

Abigail Sheffer, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Megan Chamberlain, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

Panel on Optical and Infrared Observations from the Ground

Timothy M. Heckman, NAS, Johns Hopkins University (chair)

David A. Bearden, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

David Charbonneau, NAS, Harvard University

Natascha Forster Schreiber, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik

Suvi Gezari, University of Maryland

Andrea M. Ghez, NAS, University of California, Los Angeles

Jenny E. Greene, Princeton University

J. Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University

Jacobus M. Oschmann, SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics

Richard W. Pogge, Ohio State University

Massimo Robberto, Space Telescope Science Institute

David R. Silva, University of Texas, San Antonio

Erik Svedberg, Senior Program Officer, NMMB

Megan Chamberlain, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation

John F. Beacom, Ohio State University (co-chair)

Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology (co-chair)

David Besson, University of Kansas

Gabriela Gonzalez, NAS, Louisiana State University

Jordan A. Goodman, University of Maryland

Elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

N. Jeremy Kasdin, University of San Francisco

David Kieda, University of Utah

Andrea Lommen, Haverford College

Brian Metzger, Columbia University

James Yeck, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Nicolas Yunes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Alan Angleman, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Megan Chamberlain, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

Panel on Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Observations from the Ground

Andrew J. Baker, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick (chair)

Hector Arce, Yale University

Ravinder Bhatia, Thirty Meter Telescope

Tracy Clarke, Naval Research Laboratory

Matt Dobbs, McGill University

Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (through April 16, 2020)

David L. Kaplan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Daniel P. Marrone, University of Arizona

Lynn Matthews, MIT Haystack Observatory

Joan Najita, National Optical Astronomy Observatories

Richard Plambeck, University of California, Berkeley

Jean L. Turner, University of California, Los Angeles

Arthur Charo, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Linda Walker, Program Coordinator, BPA

Panel on State of the Profession and Societal Impacts

Margaret M. Hanson, University of Cincinnati (co-chair)

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, University of California, Santa Cruz (co-chair)

Gurtina Besla, University of Arizona

Patricia T. Boyd, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Kathryne J. Daniel, Bryn Mawr College

Martha P. Haynes, NAS, Cornell University

Jedidah Isler, Dartmouth College

Rachel L. Ivie, American Institute of Physics

Kathryn V. Johnston, Columbia University

Casey W. Miller, Rochester Institute of Technology

Jesus Pando, DePaul University

Julie Posselt, University of Southern California

Jane R. Rigby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Willie S. Rockward, Morgan State University

Keivan G. Stassun, Vanderbilt University

Greg Eyring, Senior Program Officer, NMMB

Daniel Nagasawa, Associate Program Officer, SSB

Dionna Wise, Program Coordinator, SSB

NEAR EARTH OBJECT OBSERVATIONS IN THE INFRARED AND VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS

The Committee on Near Earth Object Observations in the Infrared and Visible Wavelengths was convened and held its first meeting in 2018. The committee was tasked with addressing the value of infrared and visible light observations of near Earth objects (NEOs) using a space-based telescope. The committee held its second meeting on February 25-27, 2019, in Irvine, California. It heard from Harold Reitsema from Ball Aerospace, Ellen Howell from the University of Arizona, and Steve Chesley, Michael Shao, Lance Benner, and Paul Chodas from JPL.

The committee held its final meeting in Washington, DC, on April 17-18, 2019. It heard from NASA’s Lindley Johnson about the NEO program and from James Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park, about data storage. The rest of the meeting was devoted to finalizing its report, Finding Hazardous Asteroids Using Infrared and

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26073.
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Visible Wavelength Telescopes. The committee delivered its report to NASA in early June 2019, and the report was released to the public in mid-June.

In September, NASA announced plans to build a space-based infrared telescope for detecting and tracking NEOs. The value of such a telescope for that mission was the key conclusion of the report. The summary of this publication can be found in Chapter 5.

Membership

H. Jay Melosh, NAS, Purdue University (chair)

Yanga Fernandez, University of Central Florida

Alan Harris, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Bhavya Lal, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute

Lucy-Ann McFadden, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (retired)

Michael Mommert, Lowell Observatory

George H. Rieke, NAS, University of Arizona

Andrew Rivkin, Johns Hopkins University

Professor Daniel J. Scheeres, NAE, University of Colorado, Boulder

Edward F. Tedesco, Planetary Science Institute

Staff

Dwayne A. Day, Senior Program Officer, ASEB

Sarah Brothers, Associate Program Officer (through August 2019)

Anesia Wilks, Senior Program Assistant (through May 2019)

Dionna Wise, Program Coordinator (from September 2019)

Phoebe Kinzelman, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

PLANETARY PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR SAMPLE-RETURN MISSIONS FROM MARTIAN MOONS

The Committee on Planetary Protection Requirements for Sample-Return Missions from Martian Moons, a joint activity between the Space Studies Board and the European Space Science Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF), with some participation by Japanese scientists, began in 2017 and completed its work and issued its report, Planetary Protection Classification of Sample Return Missions from the Martian Moons, in prepublication format on January 18, 2019. The committee was the result of parallel requests sent by the Planetary Protection Offices of NASA and the European Space Agency to the National Academies and ESF, respectively. Its task was to determine whether or not samples returned from the Martian moons be classified as “restricted” or “unrestricted” Earth return for planetary protection purposes. Committee members presented the results of their study at a meeting of Committee on Space Research’s (COSPAR’s) Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP) in Vienna in late January. The PPP subsequently made a recommendation to COSPAR’s Bureau supporting the conclusions of the joint committee and a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) team that such samples be classified as unrestricted Earth return. COSPAR’s Bureau accepted the PPP’s recommendation at its meeting in Paris in March. The final, printed version of the report was published in early July 2019. The summary of this publication can be found in Chapter 5.

Following the publication of the report, and in response to a request from NASA’s chief scientist, committee staff organized a special session on planetary protection at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, DC, in October. The session was organized around the theme “Planetary Protection for the Future: Science, Exploration, and Commerce” and featured contributions from the following participants: Kyle Acierno (vice president of Global Sales and Strategy, ispace, Japan), James L. Green (Chief Scientist, NASA), Dan Hendrickson (vice president, Business Development, Astrobotic Technology, United States), Michael Meyer (lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, NASA), Simonetta Di Pippo (director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Austria), and Lisa Pratt (planetary protection officer, NASA).

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Membership

David Pearce, Northumbria University (chair)

Andre Antunes, Edge Hill University (from September 2018)

Athena Coustenis, National Centre for Scientific Research of France

Michael J. Daly, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Abigail Fraeman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ansgar Greshake, Museum fur Naturkunde (from September 2018)

Guy Libourel, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

Akiko Nakamura, Kobe University

Francois Poulet, Institute of Space Astrophysics (from September 2018)

Robin Putzar, Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics

Kaliat T. Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University

Norman H. Sleep, NAS, Stanford University

Shino Suzuki, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (from September 2018)

Megan Bruck Syal, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Erin L. Walton, MacEwan University (from September 2018)

Staff

David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer

Emmanouil Detsis, Science Officer, European Science Foundation

Mia Brown, Research Associate

Andrea Rebholz, Program Coordinator

Jonathan Lutz, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

REVIEW OF THE NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE SCIENCE PLAN

The Committee on the NASA Science Mission Directorate Science Plan was formally appointed on July 16, 2019, in response to a June 12 request from NASA to review the Science Mission Directorate’s (SMD’s) Science Plan, the sixth such request since the first such document was reviewed in 1997. The committee held its one and only meeting in Washington, DC, on August 1-2, 2019. At the meeting, committee members received an introduction to and context of the science plan from NASA SMD Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA SMD Chief of the Administration Branch Ellen Gertsen, and NASA SMD Deputy Associate Administrator for Research Michael New. The committee also received an assessment of the plan from the NASA Advisory Committee’s (NAC’s) Science Committee, given by NAC Chair Meenakshi Wadhwa and NAC Executive Secretary Elaine Denning. The rest of the meeting was spent on discussion and writing the report. A draft report was sent to reviewers on August 14, 2019, and approved for release on September 23, 2019. The committee’s report, Review of the Draft 2019 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan, was publicly released on October 17, 2019. The summary of this publication can be found in Chapter 5. NOTE: NASA formally released its 2020-2024 SMD Science Plan during a virtual town hall held on May 28, 2020. The full text is available at https://science.nasa.gov/about-us/science-strategy.

Membership

Jeff Dozier, University of California, Santa Barbara (chair)

Victoria E. Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute (vice chair)

Steven J. Battel, NAE, Battel Engineering, Inc., and University of Michigan

Melissa A. McGrath, SETI Institute

Anna M. Michalak, Carnegie Institution for Science

Robyn Millan, Dartmouth College

Preethi Nair, University of Alabama

Tuija Pulkkinen, NAS, University of Michigan

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Keivan G. Stassun, Vanderbilt University

Mark H. Thiemens, NAS, University of California, San Diego

Staff

David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer

Andrea Rebholz, Program Coordinator

Colleen N. Hartman, Director for Space and Aeronautics

Ben Cassese, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

Stephen Tames, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

REVIEW OF PROGRESS TOWARD IMPLEMENTING THE DECADAL SURVEY-SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS: A SCIENCE FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey-Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society held its first in-person meeting on February 25-27, 2019 in Washington, DC. The committee’s agenda included sessions on the survey and its implementation with representatives from NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Solar Observatory (NSO). Those representatives included Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA SMD associate administrator and vice chair of the 2013 decadal survey steering committee; Nicky Fox, NASA SMD Heliophysics Division director; Mike Wiltberger, NSF/Geospace section head; Elsayed Talaat, NOAA/NESDIS Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis director; Dave Boboltz, program director, NSO and DKIST; and Valentin Pillet, NSO director. The committee also heard from Mike Liemohn and Janet Kozyra, the chair and executive secretary, respectively, of NASA’s Heliophysics advisory committee; Anthea Coster and Mark Linton, the co-chairs of NASA’s Living With a Star Program Analysis Group (LPAG); Tim Bastian, the chair of the 2015 review of the NSF Geospace Portfolio; Ed DeLuca, the chair of the NASA Heliophysics Roadmap committee, which was charged with implementing the 2013 decadal survey; Terry Onsager, NOAA SWPC, regarding the National Space Weather Program Action Plan; and Dan Baker, chair of the 2013 decadal survey steering committee.

The committee held its second in-person meeting on April 3-5, 2019, in Boulder, Colorado. The committee again heard from the agencies addressed in the decadal survey, NASA (Nicola Fox, Heliophysics Division director); NSF (Mike Wiltberger, Geospace section head); and NOAA (Elsayed Talaat, Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis director). The committee’s third and last in-person meeting was held on July 23-25, 2019, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and devoted to completion of the committee’s draft report, Progress Toward Implementation of the 2013 Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics: A Midterm Assessment.

The committee completed its draft report in the fourth quarter of 2019, which then underwent review. The revised report was subsequently approved by the National Academies at the end of the calendar year and will be released to the public in prepublication format in January 2020. Dissemination activities and publication of an edited version of the report are anticipated in the first and second quarters of 2020, respectively.

Membership

Robyn Millan, Dartmouth College (co-chair)

Thomas N. Woods, University of Colorado, Boulder (co-chair)

Timothy S. Bastian, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Monica Bobra, Stanford University Hansen Experimental Physics Lab

Anthea J. Coster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edward E. Deluca, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Scott L. England, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Stephen A. Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute

Ramon E. Lopez, University of Texas, Arlington

Janet G. Luhmann, University of California, Berkeley

Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Jens Oberheide, Clemson University

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Merav Opher, Boston University

Carolus J. Schrijver, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center

Joshua Semeter, Boston University

Jeffrey P. Thayer, University of Colorado, Boulder

Alan M. Title, NAS/NAE, Lockheed Martin Space Technology Advanced R&D Labs

Staff

Arthur A. Charo, Senior Program Officer

Abigail A. Sheffer, Senior Program Officer

Mia Brown, Research Associate

Sarah E. Moran, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

REVIEW OF THE REPORT OF THE NASA PLANETARY PROTECTION INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOARD

The Committee on the Review of the Report of the NASA Planetary Protection Independent Review Board was established in response to a request from NASA in August 2019 to conduct a review of the findings of the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB). The PPIRB, led by Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, was tasked by NASA SMD early in 2019 to look at the agency’s planetary protection policies. The committee was appointed in late October 2019 and met in Washington, DC, and Irvine, California, on November 20-22, 2019, and December 16-17, 2019, respectively. A subgroup of committee members will meet in Pasadena, California, on January 20-21, 2020, to assemble a complete draft of the report, Assessment of the Report of NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board. Delivery of the report to NASA is scheduled for the end of the first quarter of 2020.

Membership

Joseph K. Alexander, Alexander Space Policy Consultants (chair)

David P. Fidler, Washington University

G. Scott Hubbard, Stanford University

Rosaly M. Lopes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Margarita Marinova, SpaceX

H. Jay Melosh, NAS, Purdue University

Kirsten Siebach, Rice University

Caroline Smith, Natural History Museum - London

Trista Vick-Majors, Michigan Technological University

A. Thomas Young, NAE, Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)

Staff

David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer

Mia Brown, Research Associate

Gaybrielle Holbert, Program Assistant

Jordan McKaig, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

Osase Omoruyi, Lloyd V. Berkner Space Policy Intern

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The Space Studies Board (SSB) is a unit of the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. SSB provides an independent, authoritative forum for information and advice on all aspects of space science and applications and serves as the focal point within the National Academies for activities on space research.

Space Studies Board Annual Report 2019 describes the projects and activities of SSB; explains the SSB's collaboration with other National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine units; and assures the quality of the SSB reports.

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