Dr. Amara Graps
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in Latvia
Targets of Interest: 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
Disciplines/Techniques: Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Ground-based observing, Magnetospherics, Numerical modeling, Photometry, Remote sensing, Shape modeling, Space-based observing, Volcanism
Missions: Cassini, Dawn, Galileo, IRAS, New Horizons, Rosetta, Ulysses, Voyager
Mission Roles: Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument operations, Mission science team, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations
Instruments: Cameras, Dust counter
Facilities: IRTF, Palomar
Dr. Amara Graps' current research focuses on Saturn’s magnetosphere, asteroid surface regoliths, and comet dust electrostatic fragmentation. She is also studying the origin of Earth's water. She is engaged in education and public outreach, developing materials for teaching young children about climate. She is also building a Wavelet Library for Astronomers.
PAST PROJECTS
Principal Investigator
Project Team
Nicholas Schneider
UC Boulder
Carl Schmidt
Boston U.
Mizuki Yoneda
PPARC
Philippe Zarka
Paris Obs.
Max Marconi
Prismabasic
Manilo Marques
Mykhaylo Panchenko
Austrian Acad. Sci.
Principal Investigator
Project Team
Daniel Savin
Columbia U.
Mikki Osterloo
UC Boulder
Greg Holsclaw
UC Boulder
Ed Cloutis
U. Winnipeg
Devid Wettergreen
CMU
Noah Petro
GSFC
Edgard Rivera-Valentin
USRA
Jorn Helbert
DLR
Jean Paul Allain
Illinois U.
Mark Cintala
JSC
Roy Christoffersen
JSC
