Dr. Mike Kurylo

Dr. Michael Kurylo

Atmospheric Composition Program Scientist

Dr. Michael J. Kurylo has been serving as a Program Manager / Program Scientist for Atmospheric Composition in the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate since 2004. Before that he was working at NASA through a U.S. Government Inter-Agency detail working on the Upper Atmosphere Research Program; where he developed, promoted, and implemented an extramural research program in stratospheric and upper tropospheric composition and directed its advanced planning at a national and international level. His Research Interests include Gas Phase Kinetics and Photochemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Climate Change Research. He has won many awards and honors including:

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Environmental Hero Award
  • U.S. Dept. of Commerce Bronze Medal
  • U.S. Dept. of Commerce Silver Medal
  • NASA Ames Research Center Honor Award
  • NASA Peer Award
  • NASA Cooperative External Achievement Award
  • NASA Acquisition Improvement Award
  • William T. Pecora Award
  • Twice won a United Nations Environment Programme Certificate of Recognition
  • NASA Exceptional Service Medal

and a dozen times was a member of teams that won a NASA group achievement award

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The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.

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