Experts on Astrobiology

Name	Missions & Mission Experience	Targets	Techniques	Major Facilities & Instrument Development
Oleg Abramov	Europa Clipper ** Calibration/Test planning, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Mars, Moon	Astrobiology, Impacts, Remote sensing, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling	Cameras, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Amy Barr Mlinar	Cassini, Europa Clipper, Galileo, New Horizons	Callisto, Charon, Dwarf planets, Europa, Exoplanets, Ganymede, Gas giants, Icy satellites, Kuiper Belt, Mercury, Moon, Pluto, Saturn	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Impacts, Numerical modeling, Planetary Interiors, Tectonics, Volcanism
Peter Buhler		Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Mars, Pluto	Astrobiology, Celestial Mechanics, Climate, Crater Counting, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing, Space-based observing, Thermal modeling
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
Darby Dyar	MSL	Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Remote sensing, 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
David Grinspoon	MSL, New Horizons	Earth, Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Mars, Pluto, Venus	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO)
Henry Hsieh		Asteroids, Comets, Interplanetary Dust, Small satellites	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy
Jeffrey Kargel	Cassini, Galileo, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Observer, Mars Odyssey, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander, MESSENGER, MSL, New Horizons, Voyager ** Mission science team	Asteroids, Ceres, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Icy satellites, Io, Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Titan, Trans-Neptunian objects, Venus	Astrobiology, Climate, Field Work, Geochemistry, Geology, Geomorphology, Remote sensing
Ashley Murphy	Mars 2020	Earth, Mars	Astrobiology, Field Work, Geochemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Raman Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, X-ray spectroscopy
Eldar Noe Dobrea	Dawn, LRO, Mars Express (ESA), Mars Odyssey, MER, MRO, MSL ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Mission Co-Investigator, Mission operations, Mission science team, Science operations	Asteroids, Ceres, Earth, Mars, Moon, Venus	Astrobiology, Geology, Geomorphology, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy	Cameras, FTIR, Spectrometers
David O'Brien	Dawn	Asteroids, Ceres, Comets, Dwarf planets, Exoplanets, Icy satellites, Small satellites, Vesta	Astrobiology, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing
Dorothy Oehler	MSL ** Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars	Astrobiology, Focused Ion Beam, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy
Katie Primm		Europa, Mars	Astrobiology, Geochemistry, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Optical Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy
Norbert Schorghofer	Dawn ** Mission science team	Ceres, Earth, Mars, Moon	Astrobiology, Climate, Field Work, Geomorphology, Numerical modeling, Thermal modeling
Elizabeth Sklute		Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Exoplanets, Mars, Titan	Astrobiology, Mineralogy, Numerical modeling, Raman Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy	FTIR, Spectrometers
Luke Sollitt	ACE, LCROSS ** Data validation, Mission Co-Investigator, Requirements generation and flow down	Icy satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Heliophysics, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy
Sarah Sonnett	NEOWISE	Asteroids, Comets, Dwarf planets, Trans-Neptunian objects	Astrobiology, Astrometry, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Spectroscopy, Thermal Emission Spectroscopy	Kitt Peak ** Cameras
Bryan Travis		Asteroids, Ceres, Earth, Icy satellites, Mars	Astrobiology, High-Throughput Computing (HTC), Mineralogy, Numerical modeling, Remote sensing, Space-based observing
Kevin Webster		Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Mars	Astrobiology, Atmospheres, Climate, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geology, Mass spectrometry	Mass spectrometers
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

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