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NISAR Project/Science Management

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Maher Hanna

Mission Manager

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Phillip Barela

Project Manager

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Paul Rosen

Project Scientist

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Marco Lavalle

Deputy Project Scientist

Mission Operations Team

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Roy Butler

Mission Assurance Manager

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Nicole DePasquale

Engineering Payload Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Heresh Fattahi

Algorithm Development Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Teerapat Khanampornpan

Flight Operations Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Tom Moline

Mission Planner

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Jeff Pon

Science Data System Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Francois Rogez

Navigation Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Ian Roundhill

Mission Planner

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Antonio Sanders

Ground Data System Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Scott Shaffer

Instrument Operations Team Lead

Project Office

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Claudine Koyama

Business Analyst

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Ana Pena

Project Staff Assistant

Science Team

NASA Headquarters Science Leadership

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Thorsten Markus

NISAR Program Scientist Co-Lead

Shanna McClain

NISAR Program Scientist Co-Lead

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Robert Emberson

NISAR Deputy Program Scientist

Craig Ferguson

NISAR Deputy Program Scientist

Amanda Whitehurst

NISAR Deputy Program Scientist

Operations Science Team

Applications

Cathleen Jones

Applications Lead — Earth Inspicere

Karen An

Mission Applications Lead — Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Elodie Macorps

Mission Applications Lead — NASA Goddard

Cryosphere

Ian Joughin

Cryosphere Lead — University of Washington

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva

Project Science Team, Cryosphere Validation Lead — Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Rick Forster

University of Utah

Alex Gardner

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Sean Helfrich

NOAA

Ben Holt

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Eric Rignot

University of California, Irvine

Bernd Scheuchl

University of California, Irvine

Ecosystems

Paul Siqueira

Ecosystems Lead — University of Massachusetts

Rowena Lohman

Soil Moisture Lead — Cornell University

John Armston

University of Maryland

Rajat Bindlish

Goddard Space Flight Center

Bruce Chapman

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Alexandra Christensen

Project Science Team, Ecosystems Validation Lead — Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Narendra Das

Michigan State University

Ralph Dubayah

University of Maryland

Dara Entekhabi

MIT

Joel Johnson

The Ohio State University

Josef Kellndorfer

Earth Big Data

Seungbum Kim

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Kyle McDonald

The City College of New York

Erika Podest

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Sassan Saatchi

Sassan Saatchi

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Nick Steiner

The City College of New York

Solid Earth

Mark Simons

Solid Earth Lead — Caltech

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva

Project Science Team, Solid Earth Validation Lead — Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Adrian Borsa

University of California, San Diego

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Jingyi 'Ann' Chen

University of Texas, Austin

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Eric Fielding

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Franz Meyer

University of Alaska

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Matt Pritchard

Cornell University

Howard Zebker

Stanford University

An artist's illustration shows the NISAR satellite in Earth orbit, featuring a gold-wrapped main body with extended solar panels and a massive, circular mesh radar antenna held aloft by a long boom over a green and blue coastline.

Molly Zebker

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Simon Zwieback

University of Alaska

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