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Experts on Instrument operations

Name	Missions & Mission Experience	Targets	Techniques	Major Facilities & Instrument Development
Bruce Barraclough	ACE, Cassini, Dawn, GENESIS, Lunar Prospector, Ulysses ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Deputy Instrument PI, Instrument operations, Instrument PI	Mars, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind		Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors, Plasma spectrometers
Steve Bender	MSL ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Electronics design, Instrument operations, Optical design	Mars	Spectroscopy	Spectrometers
Nicholas Castle	MSL ** Instrument operations, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars, Meteorites	Electron Microscopy, Field Work, Geology, Mass spectrometry, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Volcanism, X-Ray Diffraction	X-Ray Diffractometers, Mass spectrometers, Electron Microprobe
Patricia Craig	MSL ** Data validation, Instrument operations, Science operations	Mars	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geology, Mineralogy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy	FTIR, X-ray spectrometers
William Feldman	ACE, Dawn, Giotto (ESA), Lunar Prospector, Mariner 10, Mars Observer, Mars Odyssey, MESSENGER, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Ulysses ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Instrument operations, Instrument PI, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down	Ceres, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind, Vesta	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Neutron detectors, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy
Amara Graps	Cassini, Dawn, Galileo, IRAS, New Horizons, Rosetta, Ulysses, Voyager ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Enceladus, Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Io, Io torus, Jupiter, Meteorites, Moon, Planetary rings, Saturn, Small satellites, Solar particles/Solar wind, Uranus, Vesta	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Magnetospherics, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Remote sensing, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Volcanism	IRTF, Palomar ** Cameras, Dust counter
Cynthia Little	MSL ** Calibration/Test planning, Flight Software, Instrument operations	Earth, Mars	Remote sensing, Space-based observing
Catherine Neish	Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), LRO ** Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Icy satellites, Mercury, Moon, Titan, Venus	Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Impacts, Radar, Remote sensing, Volcanism
Thomas Prettyman	Dawn, Lunar Prospector, Mars Odyssey, Psyche ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Electronics design, Flight Software, Instrument operations, Instrument PI, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down	Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Earth, Mars, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Vesta	3D Printing, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Geochemistry, Geology, Mapping, Neutron detectors, Neutron spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing, Shape modeling	Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors
Nathaniel Putzig	Mars Express (ESA), Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Insight, Mars Odyssey, MER, MRO, MSL, Phoenix Mars Lander ** Data archive, Data validation, Deputy Instrument PI, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument operations, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars	Climate, Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Numerical modeling, Planetary Interiors, Radar, Remote sensing, Tectonics, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling, Volcanism	Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Scott Robinson	Mars 2020 ** Calibration/Test planning, Electronics design, Instrument operations, Requirements generation and flow down		Remote sensing
Leslie Vittling	Juno, Mars 2020, Mars Global Surveyor, MER, MRO, MSL ** Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission operations, Science operations	Jupiter, Mars	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Volcanism	Cameras
Stephen Wood	Mars Polar Lander, Phoenix Mars Lander ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Flight Software, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Earth, Icy satellites, Mars, Mercury, Moon	Astrobiology, Atmospheres, Climate, Geomorphology, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Radiometry, Remote sensing, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling	Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, FTIR
Naoyuki Yamashita	Dawn, Kaguya (Japan) ** Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team	Asteroids, Ceres, Mars, Moon, Vesta	Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Neutron spectroscopy, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing	Gamma-ray detectors, Neutron detectors
Aileen Yingst	Dawn, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, MER, MSL ** Calibration/Test planning, Deputy Instrument PI, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument operations, Mission operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations	Ceres, Earth, Mars, Moon, Vesta	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Volcanism	Cameras

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