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Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy is the Chief Science Data Officer for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). In this role, he works across…
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Dr. Gina DiBraccio
Dr. Gina DiBraccio is the Acting Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division (Science Mission Directorate) at NASA Headquarters. Planetary Science…
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Eric Smith – Program Scientist, NASA
Dr. Eric Smith is the Associate Director for Research in the Science Mission Directorate’s Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. He…
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Diane Malarik
Diane began her NASA career as a shadow student at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1983, as part of a…
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Dr. Travis Blake
Dr. Travis Blake serves is the Program Officer for Space Traffic Coordination within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). Prior to…
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Eric Ianson
Mr. Eric Ianson is currently the Deputy Director of the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA…
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Dr. Antonino Cucchiara, Ph.D.
Dr. Antonino (Nino) Cucchiara is the Lead Program Scientist for the Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and…
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Mr. Joe Smith
Joe Smith is the Associate Director for Flight at NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate, Astrophysics Division, responsible for overseeing the…
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Lauri K. Newman
< Back to Leadership Team Lauri K. Newman is the Conjunction Assessment Program Officer within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD).…
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Dr. Mark Clampin
Dr. Mark Clampin is the Astrophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The…
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Dr. Julie A. Robinson
Dr. Julie A. Robinson is Deputy Director for Earth Science at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington,…
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Dr. Will McCarty
Dr. Will McCarty is a Program Scientist in the Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics (WAD) Focus Area. Within this area, he…
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Dr. Carolyn Mercer
Dr. Carolyn Mercer serves as the Chief Technologist for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate where she serves as the focal point…
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Kevin Reath
Kevin Reath is a Deputy Program Scientist for the Earth Surface and Interior Program. He also serves as the chair…
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Dr. Ursula Rick
Dr. Ursula Rick has spent her career at the intersection of science and policy, with a drive to see useful…
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John Gagosian
John Gagosian serves as Director of the Joint Agency Satellite Division (JASD), which is responsible for the development of space…
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Jared Entin
Jared Entin is the Program Manager for the Terrestrial Hydrology Program (THP) in the Earth Science Division of NASA’s Science…
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Joel Scott
Joel Scott is a Program Executive for Earth Science Data Systems in the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission…
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Kaitlin Harbeck
Kaitlin Harbeck is the support scientist for the Cryospheric Sciences program office. She has a Master’s in Earth science from…
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Karen Fox
Karen C. Fox is the senior communications official embedded within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. She has served in that role…
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Dr. Daniel Evans
Daniel Evans is the Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Research within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. In this…
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Jessica Hausman
Jessica Hausman is the support scientist for the Physical Oceanography (PO) Program Office at NASA Headquarters. Her responsibilities include promoting…
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Marcus Watkins
Mr. Watkins currently serves as the Director of the NASA Management Office (NMO) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the…
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Dr. Joel Kearns
Dr. Joel Kearns is the Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. He leads the Exploration Science…
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Dr. Stephen A. Rinehart
Stephen A. Rinehart is the Director of Planetary Research Programs at NASA Headquarters. In this role, he serves as the…
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Dr. Wanda Peters
Dr. Wanda Peters has extensive professional experience working for the federal government and private industry. She has over 35 years…
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Dr. David Burns
Dr. David Burns is the Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. Dr.…
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Holly Degn
Holly Degn serves as the Director of the Resource Management Division within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD), responsible for formulation,…
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Jeff Gramling
Mr. Gramling began his career at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1985, developing flight hardware simulators for the…
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Grey Hautaluoma
Grey Hautaluoma’s nearly 30-year career includes wide experience in government and nonprofit communications. He has been with NASA since 2004…
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Dr. Krishna Vadrevu
Krishna Vadrevu is the Deputy Program Manager for the Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program at the Earth Science Division…
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Dr. Karen M. St. Germain
Dr. St. Germain is the Division Director of the Earth Science Division, in the Science Mission Directorate at the National…
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Dr. Amber Emory
Amber Emory is a Program Manager for Advanced Component Technologies for the NASA HQ Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) where…
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Ellen Gertsen
Ms. Ellen Gertsen serves as the Chief of the Administration Branch within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). She provides leadership…
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Mayra Montrose
Ms. Mayra Montrose is Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) of NASA since December…
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Aaron Piña
Dr. Aaron J. Piña is a Deputy Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in the Earth Science Division where he supports…
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Karen Flynn
Karen Flynn is the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management, responsible for the formulation and execution of the Directorate’s $6+ billion…
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Thorsten Markus
Thorsten Markus is the program manager for Cryospheric Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was head of…
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Blaize A. Denfeld
Blaize A. Denfeld is an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at NASA HQ in the Earth, Surface and Interior…
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Mary F. Sladek
Initially arriving in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in 2016, Mary Frances Sladek joined the Deputy Associate Administrator for Research…
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Keith Gaddis
Dr. Keith Gaddis is the program manager for the NASA Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting programs at NASA Headquarters. These…
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Mike Falkowski
Dr. Michael Falkowski is a Program Scientist in the Terrestrial Ecology Program at NASA Headquarters where part of his duties…
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Dr. Gail M. Skofronick-Jackson
Dr. Gail Skofronick-Jackson died suddenly in early September 2021. Karen St Germain, Earth Science Division Director at NASA HQ wrote…
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Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer
Dr. Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer directs the Ocean Physics program at NASA HQ, Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division. She provides scientific leadership…
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Dr. Nicola “Nicky” Fox
As the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox directs ~100 NASA missions to explore the…
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Dr. Arik Posner
Program Scientist for the Parker Solar Probe (PSP), the Sun Radio Interferometry Space Experiment (SunRISE), and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer…
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Dr. Michael New
Dr. Michael New is the Deputy Associate Administrator for Research within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Principal responsibilities encompass: ensuring scientific…
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Felix C. Seidel
Prior to joining NASA in 2017, Felix was a data scientist at JPL. He was leading the ‘Airborne Multi-angle Spectro…
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Lawrence Friedl
Lawrence Friedl serves as the director of the Applied Sciences Program within the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters. The…
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David Green
As the NASA Applied Sciences Wildland Fires Program Manager, David and his team use space-based instruments and models to support…
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Mrs. Sandra Alba Cauffman
Mrs. Cauffman currently serves as the Deputy Director for the Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA…
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Dennis Andrucyk
Dennis Andrucyk is the deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). He, alongside the associate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen,…
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Thomas Zurbuchen
< Back to Leadership Team Editor’s note: Dr. Zurbuchen left NASA in 2022. Scientific discovery is one of humanity’s most…
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Sandra E. Connelly
Sandra Connelly serves as the Deputy Associate Administrator (DAA) for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) where she provides executive leadership,…
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Eric Kashischke
Eric Kasischke is the Terrestrial Ecology Program Scientist in the Earth Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. He is…
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Dr. Robert Swap
Dr. Bob Swap is currently serving as a rotating IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) program officer with the Radiation Sciences Program…
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Gerald Bawden
Dr. Gerald Bawden is the Lead for the Water and Energy Cycle and Program Manager for the Earth Surface and…
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Dr. Allison Leidner
Allison Leidner is the program manager for the Climate & Resilience program area. Climate & Resilience works with the public…